The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure (8 page)

     It had been rumored that shortly after Kennedy became president, Dulles arranged a tour of the secret test facility. There he was shown extraterrestrial hardware from the 1947 White Sands UFO that allegedly was recovered by the military as well as other artifacts. That incident has become the focus of considerable controversy as much as the famous Roswell incident.

     In 1958, Allen Dulles was handed the responsibility by President Eisenhower to run the first U.S. spy reconnaissance satellite program called CORONA. This was a full three years before NASA put up a manned space flight mission.

     During the same period, Dulles arranged for the drafting of National Security Council Action Memorandum 1846 which was followed by a full blown national strategy for a space intelligence program under NSC 5814/1, “Preliminary U.S. Policy in Outer Space” giving the CIA exclusive access to the program management. NSC 5814/1 encompassed more than just overhead reconnaissance:

     It included technology integration of very advanced extraterrestrial communications and navigation systems plus classified lunar stations with supply space shuttles envisioned in 1949 as part of, “Operation ADAM and EVE” (next section), and the USAF component of the Department of Defense’s overall anti-UFO defense project. One of the Los Alamos sources was fired for this leak.

Truman’s Adam & Eve Commission 1949

In 1949, President Truman created two secret commissions. These commissions were to meet privately without recording any of the commission’s business. The commissions were code named “Adam and Eve.” The first commission, Adam was to study the idea of releasing some information to the public.

     Adam was headed by a low level presidential aid Phillip Keaton (very much an unknown) with some education in science. The findings of the Adam commission consisted of the following statement:

 
   “In this matter, public opinion must be recognized as a factor of considerable importance, even if clearly affirmative, might have the effect of placing before the American people a moral question of vital historical significance at a time when the full security impact of the question had not become apparent. If this decision is to be made by the American people, it should be made in the circumstances of an actual disclosure of the existence of space beings that had visited Earth. In other words, the American public might hesitate to believe in the existence of space beings unless the American Government showed proof.” The source quoted this paragraph from a document that he was allowed to read. The document was classified codeword, dated 1 Dec 49.

     The second commission “Eve” was chaired by no other than General Curtis E. LeMay. The second commission’s goal was to plan a defense against an “alien attack.” The summaries of Eve’s findings were that: “Atomic bombs would be required to repel a space alien attack.” What’s interesting in this statement was the decision by President Truman to proceed at a record pace on the production of atomic weapons that could be released in space. General LeMay predicted it would take the United States 10 years to develop such a delivery system.

     President Truman wanted it developed in 5 years. In fact, in 1959, the first Atlas ICBMs were targeted for deep space. SIOP Plan 355 was developed to counter any space based alien invasion (Note: Remember all those “B-grade” movies made in the ‘50s about hostile “aliens?”). David Lilienthal, the first Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, was in charge of the production of enough atomic weapons to counter any anticipated alien threat. Rear Admiral
Daniel Gallery and Air Force Lieutenant General
Harold Harmon were also involved in this project. A Clarence L. Johnson, design engineer, was tasked with developing a delivery system that could send a Mark 3 atomic weapon into space:
older readers will remember all the grade 'B' 1950s Hollywood B&W movies about aliens attacking Earth.

     In 1948-49, there were fewer than 50 atomic bombs in the arsenal and none of these were assembled. The Mark 3 plutonium bombs, like the one dropped at Nagasaki, required more than 39 men over two days to assemble.

     The bombs were so large and heavy, with each weighing10,000 pounds, that the delivery system had to be capable of sending this heavy weapon into space.

     As a result of the “Eve’s” commission findings, atomic weapons production was increased three-fold. Of course, this decision coincided with the Soviet build up.

     In 1964, after the first “alien encounter” (Trinity Site, or it could have been Area 17 at White Sands), the decision to defend America against an alien invasion was down played. Although we still had SIOP Plan 355, it was not seriously considered after the alien encounter.

     Richard Helms (ex CIA Director, deceased in October 2002) supplied much of this information according to Rick Doty.

Continuing:
In 1960, the CIA had emerged as the most powerful intelligence agency, as Operation MJTWELVE ascended to the top of the list of intelligence priorities with the Soviet ICBM threat taking a close second. Allen Dulles, as a member of the MJ-12 and 5412 committees found it necessary to withhold vital information on the CIA and the NSA’s communications intelligence (COMINT) involving psychological warfare and technical intelligence (TECHINT) operations against the Soviet military infrastructure.

     This was considered Special Access Requirement (SAR) and sensitive compartmented intelligence (SCI) classified, “Top Secret Level 3” information. During the October 1962 Cuban missile crises, the Executive Committee (EXCOM) advised Kennedy that the Soviets might deploy similar decoy devices (flying saucers) in an effort to counter the U.S. Atlas missile forces based in Turkey (also see reference 5,  Chapter 2 for EXCOM). President Kennedy, reeling from the scathing U.S. and foreign press barrage leveled at his administration’s handling of the CIA-backed April 1961 (Operation MONGOOSE) Cuban refugee invasion, ordered Dulles to provide him a full review of all MJ-12 Intelligence Operations related to Psychological Warfare Plans (1).

     Such disclosure of the CIA’s highest classified intelligence had put Allen Dulles at the center of blame for botching an embarrassing invasion. Kennedy had already set in motion mechanisms to strip the CIA of all paramilitary covert operations. Now Dulles was being forced to expose Kennedy to the “family jewels” of the CIA’s most guarded secret.

     This might have compromised the whole U.S. intelligence community and MJ-12. The end result of that June 28, 1961 directive appears to be a full Operational Review prepared by Dulles dated 5 November 1961 (Figure 4, next page).

    
In this one page Figure 4 document, Dulles tells JFK that indeed some UFOs may be of “non-terrestrial origin” and that “I cannot divulge pertinent data on some of the more sensitive aspects of MJ-12 activities which have been deemed properly classified under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.”

     This page one of a full operational review is a retype of the original document and from research has all the indications of being authentic as of 2000. The SNIE below is also dated 5 November 61, and mentioned by Dulles in his operational briefing.

http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/reports/mjtwelve-nie.htm

President Kennedy began to back away from nuclear confrontation with the Soviets, the Communist insurgent wars in Laos and Vietnam, the dismantling of the CIA and the firing of Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell, and General Cabell.

     Instead, he began to assume control and reorganize the space program. On
26 May 1962, President Kennedy requested a classified directive be written up by the Secretary of State to the Department of Defense, CIA, NASA, AEC and science advisers which said:

The President is concerned about possible attacks on the
U.S. Space Program at the forthcoming session of the U.N. Outer Space Committee and the General Assembly. Please develop positions on the following questions in consultation with DOD, CIA, NASA, AEC, and the science advisor:

1. How do we deal with charges the United States is seeking a military domination in space and plans to use space to launch weapons of mass destruction?

2. [Sanitized]

3. How do we defend the past and prospective space experiments (high-altitude nuclear test Project West Ford), which may have lasting effects in space and impair the free use of space by other nations?

4. How do we dispel foreign misapprehensions arising from our bitter domestic debate...and charges that the legislation is somehow inconsistent with U.N.  statements. The president would like to see the positions developed to deal with these questions.

McGeorge Bundy

     While the intelligence community was formulating plans on how to deal with the president’s new direction on the CIA’s space program and MJ-12 intelligence operations, Kennedy wrote a private letter to Nikita S. Khrushcev. In this letter he expressed relief that the nuclear confrontation arising over Khrushcev’s placing of offensive missiles on Castro’s
Cuba had ended. Dated 14 December 1962, Kennedy revealed a new channel of communications which was later intercepted by the NSA:

Dear Mr. Chairman:

I was glad to have your message of December 11th and to know that you believe, as we do, that we have come to the final stage of the Cuban affair between us, the settlement of which will have significance for our future relations and for our ability to overcome other difficulties. I wish to thank you for your expression of appreciation of   the understanding and flexibility we have tried to display.

With regard to your reference to the confidential channels set up between us, I can assure you that I value them. I have not concealed from you that it was a serious disappointment to me that dangerously misleading information should have come through these channels before the recent crisis...

The
12 November, 1963 JFK Memo and NSAM 271

According to an alleged “Top Secret” memorandum (refer back to Chapter 1) leaked to Tim Cooper (2), Kennedy had requested the Director of Central Intelligence, John McCone, and the Deputy Director of Counterintelligence, James J. Angleton, to review all classified CIA and USAF UFO projects (supposedly issued by Kennedy just 10 days before he was gunned down in the streets of Dallas, TX). They were to provide this data to James Webb, NASA’s administrator, for a joint space exploration program with the    Soviets. If true, this document may be the most significant document attesting to the reality of the super-secret MJ-12 intelligence organization created by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 and perhaps provide us with one of the prime reasons and/or motives for Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas and the continuing cover-up.

     In it Kennedy wanted to convince Khrushchev of his sincerity by breaking down barriers and aligning the U.S. intelligence community with the Soviet space program. This would provide a basis for trust thus ending the mistrust between the U.S. and Soviet Union and perhaps ending the Cold War.