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On May 5, 1963, after arriving in Denmark during his European tour, Adamski revealed to his Danish representative Major Hans C. Petersen, Senior Air Traffic Control Officer in the Royal Danish Air Force (1949–1976), that shortly before leaving for Europe he had had a secret meeting with Kennedy. Adamski also revealed to the press some details of his visit to
a “U.S. government office” (without mentioning Kennedy). The following day, reports Ragnvald A. Carlsen, a Danish researcher who, together with Hans Petersen, helped arrange the Adamski visit, a large billboard for the
Fredericia Dagblad
displayed the following headline:
“ADAMSKI: Venus-mand advarede mig om Cuba-krisen”
(“Man from Venus warned me about Cuba crisis”).

“Despite his seventy-two years he is still supple and gives the impression of being a well-balanced person,” wrote the reporter. “One cannot demand that people believe in flying saucers,” Adamski was quoted as saying. “They want proof; it's human nature. But those who have seen these objects have become convinced…. I expect even less that people should believe that I have been contacted many times by men from Venus, [but] a year ago I was contacted by [such] a man who said that, before long, there would be a crisis over Cuba, which could perhaps mean a Third World War. That was three months before the Cuba crisis started. At that time I happened to be in Washington, D.C., and I went along to a government office where I passed on the information.”

During a visit to Washington in 1995, following a lecture he had given to a group of interested delegates at the United Nations in New York, Major Petersen made some interesting comments, including reference to a trip to another planet claimed by Adamski in early March 1962, specifically in relation to what eventually turned out to be the Cuban missile crisis in October that year. On his return, Adamski called Petersen, explaining that he had to go to Washington to deliver a message for the president. “I cannot tell you what this message is,” said Adamski, “but if you follow the political situation on Earth, you will be able to see for yourself what the message contains.” Had Kennedy not solved the Cuba crisis the way he did, Petersen pointed out, there would have been a Third World War.
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As General Anatoly Gribkov, former Soviet Army chief of operations, admitted: “Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread … and we weren't counting days or hours—but minutes.”
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I learned from Lou Zinsstag that, on an unknown date, Adamski had been entrusted with a written invitation for President Kennedy to visit one of the aliens' huge motherships at a secret airbase in Desert Hot Springs, California, for a few days. In order to keep this visit absolutely secret,
Adamski was to take the invitation directly to the White House through a side door, where a man he knew was ready to let him in. Adamski later learned that Kennedy had spent several hours at the airbase, after having canceled an important trip to New York, and that he had had a long talk with the ship's crew, but that he had not been invited for a flight.
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Emily Crewe, the British researcher cited in Chapter 16, has related to me that on June 6, 1963, Adamski was invited for a meeting at Desmond Leslie's home in St. John's Wood, London. Those present included Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia during World War II and appointed Chief of the Defence Staff in 1965; Lord Dowding, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940; the Earl of Clancarty (Brinsley Le Poer Trench), and Emily. The group (minus Emily, not in the best of health at the time) was later invited by Mountbatten for discussions at Broadlands, his estate in Hampshire.

During the London meeting, Adamski revealed further details about the Kennedy contact. The alien craft had landed in the small hours on the tarmac at the end of one of the airbase runways. “When Kennedy arrived,” Emily reports, “his car was stopped and he was advised to get out and walk to the ship that awaited him. He was to come alone. JFK obeyed the summons and he was seen entering the alien vessel and stayed for some time before he came out at last, later refusing to speak about the incident.”
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According to Henry Dohan, previously referenced in Chapter 7, many years prior to becoming president, Kennedy met with Adamski on several occasions at the latter's home in Vista, California, where he was introduced to several of the aliens living among us. “Since the space people know the past, present, and future of every one of us,” claimed Dohan, “they told Kennedy that he would become the president of the U.S. Kennedy thought it was ludicrous, since he was Catholic, and the space [people] told him, ‘No, you go for it and you will get it.' Kennedy kept in touch with Adamski and had clandestine meetings with him, even when he was president.

“Kennedy had one weakness, and that was that he loved too many women. I believe he was intimate with Marilyn Monroe and confided in her about his extraterrestrial knowledge. Also, he was the first U.S. president to invest one billion dollars of the U.S. budget in space research.
He became a threat to our oil and industrial magnates, which led to his Mafia assassination and that of Marilyn Monroe.”
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If there's any truth in the Lucille Ball/Reagan story mentioned earlier, it seems Kennedy wasn't alone in being encouraged to push for the presidency.

Regarding Monroe, a putative CIA document dated August 3, 1962, is possibly revealing.
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Classified Top Secret, it references the FBI wiretapping of a conversation between the noted reporter Dorothy Kilgallen and Monroe's friend Howard Rothberg, in which the latter reveals to the reporter that Monroe kept a “diary of secrets” relating to her trysts with President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

The memo also cites Rothberg as saying that Marilyn had “secrets to tell,” including “the visit by the president at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space…. In the mid-fifties, Kilgallen learned of secret efforts by the U.S. and U.K. governments to identify the origin of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official.” (Almost certainly, the visit cited was the one JFK made to Tyndall Air Force Base, described earlier.) The CIA memorandum goes on to cite a number of threats made by Monroe, including holding a press conference in which she would “tell all.”
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President Carter

In 1969, President-to-be Jimmy Carter had a UFO sighting in Georgia, which he spoke about publicly on several occasions. Skeptics claimed he had merely spotted the planet Venus, a ridiculous explanation given Carter's background as a U.S. Navy submarine line officer—thus familiar with planets and stars. Harvey Jack McGeorge II, formerly in the Special Forces Reserve, Green Berets, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, later worked in the U.S. Secret Service (Technical Security Division) at the White House as adviser on national and international terrorism. Having struck up a friendship with Carter, he is said to have been the first member of the Secret Service, outside of its chief, to have witnessed a presidential briefing on UFOs. The following report originates from an account which McGeorge gave to a friend in the 1980s, which was then passed on to Harry Lebelson of
OMNI
magazine.

“Upon Carter's insistence, and in spite of protestations from the National
Security Agency,” states a transcript of the report, “McGeorge was allowed to attend [a] briefing session…. There were two briefings given to Carter. McGeorge attended at least the initial briefing.

“Once the president was in the room, seated at a table, Jack McGeorge at another table, a member of the NSA gave an overall briefing on the phenomenon, stating its historical characteristics and bringing it up to the present time. At that point, a number of documents describing the evolutionary habits of the beings, the reasons they were here, and other matters of that consequence were shown…. The next thing to be shown to Jimmy Carter was a fifteen-minute [color] film taken at Holloman AFB in which UFO inhabitants and military personnel made physical contact….

“After that there were more briefings by national security people—and basically that was the end of the briefing. McGeorge, being a very observant person, noticed that on re-entering Carter's office about half an hour after the briefing—and I know this is going to be hard to believe—but he stated that Carter had tears in his eyes….”
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President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, former president (1993–2010) of the southwestern Russian region of Kalmykia (the only Buddhist region in Europe)—a multimillionaire businessman and current president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE)—made the newswires in 2006 when he claimed to have been taken on board an alien spacecraft while on a business trip in 1997. “It happened on the 17th of September,” he told a British journalist. “I was taken from my apartment in Moscow and taken to this spaceship, and we went to some star. I asked, ‘Please bring me back,' because the next day I had to be back in Kalmykia—in Elista—to go to the Ukraine. ‘No problem,' they said, ‘you have time.'”

“How much of that experience do you recall?” asked the journalist.

Ilyumzhinov's responses were somewhat brief. “They are people like us,” he replied. “They have the same mind, the same vision, and so on. I talked with them. I understood that we are not alone—we are not unique. I am not a crazy man. But after that, when I gave the first interview to Radio Freedom in Russia five years ago, thousands of people wrote me letters or called by phone, saying, ‘Kirsan, you are a politician and you are not afraid to talk about it.'” Which, at least, is more than can be said for any other
president or national leader—apart, perhaps, from the current Russian Prime Minister and former President Dmitry Medvedev (see later).

In another interview, on a Russian talk show on April 26, 2010, Ilyumzhinov revealed that the experience had begun with the appearance of a “semi-transparent half tube” on the balcony of his apartment. He then entered it and met “human-like creatures in yellow spacesuits,” the
Moscow Times
reported. “I am often asked which language I used to talk to them. Perhaps it was on a level of the exchange of the ideas,” he explained to the program host. “They put a spacesuit on me, told me many things, and showed me around. They wanted to demonstrate that UFOs do exist.”

“What has gotten his Russian political peers suddenly agitated after all this time,” reports Glenda Kwek, “is whether he let slip any state secrets and whether there is a proper procedure for dealing with aliens. Andrei Lebedev, a State Duma deputy, was apparently moved by ‘holy terror' at Mr. Ilyumzhinov's claims, and yesterday wrote to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asking him to launch an investigation, the
Times
said. He was concerned about whether Mr. Ilyumzhinov's brush with the spacemen affected his ruling of Kalmykia and whether they might have tried to get him to divulge state secrets to them.”
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President Obama

During a live interview with Chris Moyles on BBC Radio 1 in May 2012, actor Will Smith (of
Men in Black
fame) said that during a recent private tour of the White House with President Obama, Smith's thirteen-year-old son Jayden (himself a Hollywood star) asked Obama for his view on aliens.

“The aliens, right?” responded Obama. “Okay. I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of extraterrestrials, but I can tell you that if there had been a top-secret meeting and if there would have had to have been a discussion about it, it would have taken place in this room.”
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The room referred to is the White House Situation Room, a five-thousand-square-foot conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing of the White House, created in 1961 by President Kennedy. Run by the National Security Council staff for the use of the president and his advisers, the Situation Room serves to monitor and deal with crises at home and abroad and to conduct secure
communications.
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Of more interest is an additional comment made by Will Smith on the radio show. “Listen, here's the deal,” he claimed to Chris Moyles. “I
have
the top-secret information, I just can't share it. You don't think I've made all these movies and
not
been briefed by the White House?”
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In the seemingly unlikely event that a movie star can be briefed on the subject, it is axiomatic that President Obama would have been briefed to a far greater depth prior to, or following, his inauguration. Although indirectly related, according to investigative journalist and former National Security Agency employee Wayne Madsen, government files reveal CIA connections with President Obama's biological father, Barack Obama Sr., and the president's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who is said to have conducted espionage activities in 1960s post-coup Indonesia on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation. Furthermore, Obama's stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, who met Dunham at the East-West Center, was “recalled to Indonesia in 1965 to serve as a senior Army officer and assist General Suharto and the CIA in the bloody overthrow of President Sukarno.” Madsen further reveals that President Obama himself worked from 1983 to 1984 for Business International Corporation, “a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world's most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad….”
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According to a poll of 1,114 adults conducted across the United States by the National Geographic Channel in May 2012, sixty-five percent of Americans believe President Obama would be more adept than his Republican rival Mitt Romney at dealing with an alien invasion, with women and younger Americans more likely than men and over-65s to agree with that prospect. Eleven percent of respondents were confident they had seen a UFO.
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National Geographic also claims that eighty million Americans—that's over one quarter—believe in UFOs.