Is your Facebook friend an International UFO Spy?
Gary S. Bekkum
July 29, 2010
Why are some US intelligence officials social networking with the on-line UFO community?
(STARpod.org) -- US intelligence officials, and their private sector associates, have been exposing themselves to the international on-line UFO community for years.
Is your UFO friend on Facebook an international spy?
In 2006, I suggested that inexplicable contacts and comments from persons known to work at the highest levels of the intelligence community were evidence of an on-line collection effort aimed at using the UFO community to penetrate into the minds of defense industry scientists and their foreign associates.
A recent on-line security test, reported by numerous mainstream media sources, is a classic example of the methods used for on-line elicitation and intelligence collection.
According to an article published by Fox News, the creation of a phony female Internet presence allowed cyber security expert Tom Ryan to make connections with "officials in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Security Agency, an intelligence director for the U.S. Marines, a chief of staff in Congress, and several people in the Pentagon."
The Guardian adds that Tom Ryan's made-up 25-year old female cyber-security personality was even "invited to speak at security conferences and offered jobs at companies including Google and Lockheed Martin."
Intelligence Community interest in the UFO phenomenon and the paranormal is no longer a matter of speculation: thousands of declassified government records testify to the fact that America's spy agencies have been actively pursuing the unknown.
The effort to turn the strange and unusual to the benefit of espionage operations can be traced at least to the early 1950s, when Director of Central Intelligence W.B. Smith proposed that UFO reports might be useful for psychological warfare.
In 1963, Richard Helms, who would later head the CIA, wrote about exploiting the kind of paranormal research the Agency had uncovered in the Soviet Union -- including far-out topics like hypnosis and telepathy.
By 1973, CIA's Technical Services Division was covertly funding paranormal research at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
In less than ten years, the CIA research had blossomed into a multi-layered secret government paranormal effort that included the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and numerous other government entities.
When some of the results of the half-century long cold war paranormal work were revealed by today's Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on ABC News Nightline in 1995, it was widely assumed that American had shuttered the 'weird desk' files for good.
In 2004, the CIA released a massive 89,000 plus page archive of files documenting the American paranormal era. Included in the collection were mid-1990s era briefing documents indicating that Congress had requested American paranormal researchers cooperate with their counterparts in Russia.
And then the Internet information age arrived in full force.
America researchers into alternative topics as far-flung as telepathy and antigravity were suddenly able to communicate instantly with their foreign counterparts on topics that had been classified as state secrets only a few years earlier.
A volume of late 1990s files obtained from Britain's Ministry of Defence offer evidence that emails concerning paranormal topics and foreign nationals were being archived by authorities.
In America, persons associated with the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency were also communicating with researchers on both sides of the former cold war divide.
In the late 1990s, several well-known alternative physicists -- including Dr. Hal Puthoff, who had been at the core of America's once-secret paranormal research; and Dr. Jack Sarfatti, who had developed an extensive on-line discussion list that included foreign and domestic researchers -- connected with Joe Firmage, a brilliant young entrepreneur who shared his passion for building a billion-dollar Internet consulting company with UFOs and alien technologies.
As a result of Firmage's financial support, the Congressional request for open cooperation with Russian and other foreign nationals in the area of alternative science had been realized in both the virtual and real world, as foreign scientists converged on San Francisco, to pursue dreams of otherworldly technologies.
One government-affiliated "on background" source -- an associate of key leaders in the American Intelligence Community -- provided hearsay testimony of an extraterrestrial presence to investigative author Gus Russo, and other Internet-based citizen journalists. Russo reported his findings in an article titled, "The Real X-files: Is Uncle Sam a closet UFOlogist?"
According to a on-video statement made by Sarfatti in 2005, the CIA was also interested in the paranormal activities taking place in the City by the Bay.
Sarfatti claimed that Ron Pandolfi -- who was identified by the New York Times as a senior agency analyst at CIA -- made a personal visit, accompanied by a military escort, to inquire about paranormal researchers.
Dan Smith, an associate of Pandolfi in the private sector, also claimed to be familiar with CIA's interest in topics like UFOs, psychics, and reverse engineered 'alien' technologies.
Smith also relates meeting with Pandolfi and Chris Straub of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to discuss paranormal related topics.
An Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2008 JASON study identifies Pandolfi, along with others from Sarfatti's email list stream, including the DIA's Paul Murad.
A DoD Cyber Security Certificate attached to an email from Paul Murad -- who was publicly identified as a representative of the US Department of Defense by the STAIF Conference, a scientific symposium on emerging and futuristic technologies -- appeared to come from Office of the Secretary of Defense email servers and was associated with the OSD ATL (Acquisition Technology Logistics).
One of the cyber contacts associated with STAIF -- a journalist interacting with foreign and domestic researchers -- claimed to have been briefly involved in a bungled recruitment attempt by military spies out of Fort Meade, the home of both Army Intelligence and the National Security Agency.
Meanwhile, other persons associated with Pandolfi and Puthoff were busy discussing the UFO topic on line with Internet-based investigators interested in either the UFO topic or advanced technology research related to UFOs.
In September 2006, Pandolfi released a series of what appeared to be confidential emails exchanged with an associate, Dr. Kit Green, concerning a potential national security issue concealed inside of a UFO cover story.
Later, Pandolfi confided his purpose in releasing the email stream was to protect John Gannon, the former head of CIA's National Intelligence Council, from a smear campaign.
Pandolfi claimed that by raising allegations of possible espionage he effectively shut down rumors of Gannon's involvement in the spreading of an Internet UFO tale called SERPO.
According to the SERPO story, a twelve-member team of Americans were taken to a distant planet as part of a human-ET exchange program, similar to a scene in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
As reported by The Guardian, cyber security expert Tom Ryan's phony Internet identity elicited "personal and professional information and photos, which Ryan claims could have compromised corporate and possibly even national security."
Considering the more technical exchanges taking place between UFO and paranormal researchers in cyberspace, and in person at conferences and private research facilities, like those funded by Firmage, we should not be too surprised to find an intelligence community presence lurking in the cyber-shadows.
For more information on the US government's involvement with paranormal phenomena, see Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book To read more about the book, click here.
Related articles:
More Spy Games? From Russia to Mars, with Laura Eisenhower
Out there? Government whistleblowers tell extraterrestrial alien tales
UFO Spy Games, Secrets and Conspiracies
For more information, please visit STARpod.org
Copyright (c) 2010 by STARstream Research / STARpod.org -- All rights
(STARpod.org) -- US intelligence officials, and their private sector associates, have been exposing themselves to the international on-line UFO community for years.
Is your UFO friend on Facebook an international spy?
In 2006, I suggested that inexplicable contacts and comments from persons known to work at the highest levels of the intelligence community were evidence of an on-line collection effort aimed at using the UFO community to penetrate into the minds of defense industry scientists and their foreign associates.
A recent on-line security test, reported by numerous mainstream media sources, is a classic example of the methods used for on-line elicitation and intelligence collection.
According to an article published by Fox News, the creation of a phony female Internet presence allowed cyber security expert Tom Ryan to make connections with "officials in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Security Agency, an intelligence director for the U.S. Marines, a chief of staff in Congress, and several people in the Pentagon."
The Guardian adds that Tom Ryan's made-up 25-year old female cyber-security personality was even "invited to speak at security conferences and offered jobs at companies including Google and Lockheed Martin."
Intelligence Community interest in the UFO phenomenon and the paranormal is no longer a matter of speculation: thousands of declassified government records testify to the fact that America's spy agencies have been actively pursuing the unknown.
The effort to turn the strange and unusual to the benefit of espionage operations can be traced at least to the early 1950s, when Director of Central Intelligence W.B. Smith proposed that UFO reports might be useful for psychological warfare.
In 1963, Richard Helms, who would later head the CIA, wrote about exploiting the kind of paranormal research the Agency had uncovered in the Soviet Union -- including far-out topics like hypnosis and telepathy.
By 1973, CIA's Technical Services Division was covertly funding paranormal research at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
In less than ten years, the CIA research had blossomed into a multi-layered secret government paranormal effort that included the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and numerous other government entities.
When some of the results of the half-century long cold war paranormal work were revealed by today's Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on ABC News Nightline in 1995, it was widely assumed that American had shuttered the 'weird desk' files for good.
In 2004, the CIA released a massive 89,000 plus page archive of files documenting the American paranormal era. Included in the collection were mid-1990s era briefing documents indicating that Congress had requested American paranormal researchers cooperate with their counterparts in Russia.
And then the Internet information age arrived in full force.
America researchers into alternative topics as far-flung as telepathy and antigravity were suddenly able to communicate instantly with their foreign counterparts on topics that had been classified as state secrets only a few years earlier.
A volume of late 1990s files obtained from Britain's Ministry of Defence offer evidence that emails concerning paranormal topics and foreign nationals were being archived by authorities.
In America, persons associated with the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency were also communicating with researchers on both sides of the former cold war divide.
In the late 1990s, several well-known alternative physicists -- including Dr. Hal Puthoff, who had been at the core of America's once-secret paranormal research; and Dr. Jack Sarfatti, who had developed an extensive on-line discussion list that included foreign and domestic researchers -- connected with Joe Firmage, a brilliant young entrepreneur who shared his passion for building a billion-dollar Internet consulting company with UFOs and alien technologies.
As a result of Firmage's financial support, the Congressional request for open cooperation with Russian and other foreign nationals in the area of alternative science had been realized in both the virtual and real world, as foreign scientists converged on San Francisco, to pursue dreams of otherworldly technologies.
One government-affiliated "on background" source -- an associate of key leaders in the American Intelligence Community -- provided hearsay testimony of an extraterrestrial presence to investigative author Gus Russo, and other Internet-based citizen journalists. Russo reported his findings in an article titled, "The Real X-files: Is Uncle Sam a closet UFOlogist?"
According to a on-video statement made by Sarfatti in 2005, the CIA was also interested in the paranormal activities taking place in the City by the Bay.
Sarfatti claimed that Ron Pandolfi -- who was identified by the New York Times as a senior agency analyst at CIA -- made a personal visit, accompanied by a military escort, to inquire about paranormal researchers.
Dan Smith, an associate of Pandolfi in the private sector, also claimed to be familiar with CIA's interest in topics like UFOs, psychics, and reverse engineered 'alien' technologies.
Smith also relates meeting with Pandolfi and Chris Straub of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to discuss paranormal related topics.
An Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2008 JASON study identifies Pandolfi, along with others from Sarfatti's email list stream, including the DIA's Paul Murad.
A DoD Cyber Security Certificate attached to an email from Paul Murad -- who was publicly identified as a representative of the US Department of Defense by the STAIF Conference, a scientific symposium on emerging and futuristic technologies -- appeared to come from Office of the Secretary of Defense email servers and was associated with the OSD ATL (Acquisition Technology Logistics).
One of the cyber contacts associated with STAIF -- a journalist interacting with foreign and domestic researchers -- claimed to have been briefly involved in a bungled recruitment attempt by military spies out of Fort Meade, the home of both Army Intelligence and the National Security Agency.
Meanwhile, other persons associated with Pandolfi and Puthoff were busy discussing the UFO topic on line with Internet-based investigators interested in either the UFO topic or advanced technology research related to UFOs.
In September 2006, Pandolfi released a series of what appeared to be confidential emails exchanged with an associate, Dr. Kit Green, concerning a potential national security issue concealed inside of a UFO cover story.
Later, Pandolfi confided his purpose in releasing the email stream was to protect John Gannon, the former head of CIA's National Intelligence Council, from a smear campaign.
Pandolfi claimed that by raising allegations of possible espionage he effectively shut down rumors of Gannon's involvement in the spreading of an Internet UFO tale called SERPO.
According to the SERPO story, a twelve-member team of Americans were taken to a distant planet as part of a human-ET exchange program, similar to a scene in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
As reported by The Guardian, cyber security expert Tom Ryan's phony Internet identity elicited "personal and professional information and photos, which Ryan claims could have compromised corporate and possibly even national security."
Considering the more technical exchanges taking place between UFO and paranormal researchers in cyberspace, and in person at conferences and private research facilities, like those funded by Firmage, we should not be too surprised to find an intelligence community presence lurking in the cyber-shadows.
For more information on the US government's involvement with paranormal phenomena, see Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book To read more about the book, click here.
Related articles:
More Spy Games? From Russia to Mars, with Laura Eisenhower
Out there? Government whistleblowers tell extraterrestrial alien tales
UFO Spy Games, Secrets and Conspiracies
For more information, please visit STARpod.org
Copyright (c) 2010 by STARstream Research / STARpod.org -- All rights
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