Ufo Spy Games The Face Of The Core Story Part Two

A review and a preview, part two...Like the fictional TV series TWIN PEAKS, which mixed the supernatural with UFO topics like project BLUE BOOK, the real core story seemed to have its roots in the paranormal.According to an undated CIA memorandum, Walter B. Smith, Director of Central Intelligence in the early 1950s, sent a proposal to the National Security Council which concluded that "the problems with unidentified flying objects appear to have implications for psychological warfare, as well as for intelligence and operations."This theme, which forever links the "nuts and bolts" of UFO mythology as an extension of human technological evolution, to the paranormal weirdness of the unexplainable, is at the heart of the "core story" of government extraterrestrial contact.It is no longer a matter of uninformed speculation: the United States, Great Britain, China, Russia, and the Former Soviet Union, to name a few, are concerned about strange phenomena.As the Freedom of Information Act pushed tightly held secrets into the harsh light of public opinion, bits and pieces of a dark -- some might say disturbing -- secret world have been revealed.In 1963, future CIA Director of Intelligence Richard Helms was thinking about the phenomenology problem, tooOn the day after Christmas Day, while the national was still in shock over the loss of their President, Richard Helms wrote to the CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology:"Recently, reports from various sources on life science research in the Soviet Union have been called to my attention. These reports indicate a current preoccupation by an important sector of Soviet biological science with cybernetics, telepathy, hypnosis, and related subjects. Stimulated by these reports, I would like to pass on to you some thoughts on the possible significance of these activities to the Clandestine Services."Nearly forty-four years after Helms penned his memo, Gus Russo, an investigative author best known for his investigative work on the Kennedy assassination plot, would be asked by Dan Smith to write an article about how the I.C.'s "phenomenology problem" had lead to counterintelligence operations involving U.S. citizens.Russo examined material from numerous sources. I discussed some of my own observations with Russo. Together we laughed about why some of our mutual sources in the I.C. would request absolute anonymity when their names were already plastered atop the UFO "core story" on the Internet.In his article "The Real X-files: Is Uncle Sam a Closet UFOlogist," available at the starpod.org website, Russo expressed his opinion of the high-strangeness of intelligence operations involving psychic spies and UFOs:"Summing it all up, there is certainly a very small percentage of government officials with intelligence clearance -- some active, some retired -- who are interested in the UFO research community, if not UFOs themselves. Some of these men are of the impression, rightly or wrongly, that a very few individuals in government and the private sector are keeping the big secret even from them. This is small consolation to earnest UFO researchers, but at least they should no longer feel alone and marginalized as kooks completely at odds with officialdom."Is there an extraterrestrial presence representing a "phenomenology problem" for the U.S. government? Or is the "phenomenology problem" a useful cover for sweeping deep black budget programs under the "nut-case" carpet?The US government has no intention of providing an answer to these questions.Inquiries made using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) are typically met with this kind of response:"The Air Force can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information you have requested."This "can neither confirm nor deny" escape clause is known as the "Glomar Response," named after the once super-secret CIA vessel used to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine.According to a review of a previous and related FOIA filing found at a Department of Energy website, the "Glomar Response" is required "where the existence or non-existence of requested documents is itself a classified fact exempt from disclosure... or where admission that documents exist would indicate that the agency was involved in a certain issue... or that an individual is the target of investigation or surveillance... [or where] the existence or non-existence of requested documents is classified."It is clear: the existence or non existence of materials demonstrating government interest in a "phenomenology problem" is a matter of critical US national security. It isn't hard to find persons of intelligence -- or persons from an intelligence agency of the U.S. government -- who are involved at some level of interest with the UFO issue. UFO interests come from top level CIA technology analysts, like Ron Pandolfi, who admitted in a covertly tape recorded phone conversation with a foreign national to having been a member of the once secret "UFO Working Group." They come from former astronauts, like Dr. Edgar Mitchell, one of twelve human beings to have walked on the moon. And they are discussed by numerous lesser known experts who have heard the rumors or seen the classified documents first hand.Over the past ten years the evidence has continued to mount in favor of the involvement of the government of the United States with the alleged "extraterrestrial presence."To understand the UFO tales of spies, lies, and polygraph tape, one must first become familiar with the key players sitting at the spy game table, and learn why they are important to U.S. National Security.For some, like Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green, even the existence or nonexistence of the mystery remains concealed and may be "legally protected."Green's career at CIA included work on the Glomar recovery project and his involvement in the early days of psychic warfare research at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International), a matter of the record where he is named by Ken Kress in a declassified edition of the CIA's "STUDIES IN INTELLIGENCE".A key researcher at SRI was Dr. Hal Puthoff, whose private institute focuses on UFO-related exotic energy production. Green has since left CIA but continues as a consultant to the government. He is also a member of the National Academies of Science / Defense Intelligence Agency TIGER Committee, where he provides expert analysis on emerging defense applications in the field of neuroscience. The TIGER Committee is notable for membership which includes Ruth David, the former head of CIA Science and Technology, and John Gannon, former CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence.In January of 2006, in a privately distributed email list, Green referenced a discussion of Dr. Hal Puthoff's exotic propulsion and energy topics at one of the TIGER meetings. Exotic energy concepts include so-called zero point energy or vacuum energy, which many physicists consider the 21st century equivalent of the perpetual motion machine. Zero point energy is also closely associated with the "reverse engineering" of UFO propulsion systems.One man, and one man alone appeared to occupy the best possible position to probe into the facts, fantasies, and fallacies behind the real-life "X-files" of UFOs, alien visitors, spies, lies, and polygraph tape.Dr. Ron Pandolfi, the former CIA analyst recently with the ODNI, has a reputation for using "unconventional methods."The ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) is the highest publicly acknowledged intelligence authority in the United States government. The President of the United States is briefed by the Director of National Intelligence, a job formerly handled by the Director of Central Intelligence.Pandolfi's position at ODNI involved the kind of technical intelligence that would be used to detect and track UFO activity. Pandolfi's association with UFOs is well known, and has been heavily promoted by his friend Dan Smith, who often blogs about Pandolfi's activities. Even Smith questions why his blogging, which would seem to be put Pandolfi's career in jeopardy, has failed to prevent Pandolfi was rising to a very senior position in the Intelligence Community.It was Ron Pandolfi, who in the latter half of 2006, provided a glimpse into the spy games, when he forwarded a series of emails discussing a possible violation of national security.The messages in question appear to have been exchanged by Pandolfi with Rick Doty, a former USAF AFOSI agent working for New Mexico law enforcement, who has often discussed UFOs, and Dr. Green.I obtained copies of the Pandolfi distributed email messages from our acting source based in London, who in 2006 was a contributing journalist to STARstream Research. Several months after meeting with Pandolfi in 2006, our source was instructed to pass the email messages to the managers of another Internet forum, Reality Uncovered, as requested by Dr. Pandolfi.It is generally assumed this tale began in late 2005 when an anonymous source began providing details about "SERPO," an alleged human-extraterrestrial biological entity exchange program.The real story, as best as can be discerned from additional information provided in early to mid 2005, may have been initiated by an earlier effort by Dan Smith to reach then President George W. Bush concerning the alleged "extraterrestrial presence."In the 2005 series of leaked messages, the originating source wrote, "For the time being, I do not need any additional named sources. I just need reasonable confidence that I have a reliable independent source for the core story. Despite Ron's occasional protestations, you remain my first preference." This series of messages, which I refer to as "the team of three," involved discussion of how to best promote government disclosure of the alleged extraterrestrial core story, confirmation of some related details from the late DCI Richard Helms, and one team member offering that "I will think about this seriously, as long as our three-person team (you, me, and Ron) remains protected."By early 2006, the SERPO tale had infected various UFO groups and their related Internet discussions, and was continuing to spread.Many, including Ron Pandolfi himself, would point to Rick Doty as the most likely source of the SERPO material -- "SERPO-A" -- and by June of 2006, our sources informed us of Pandolfi's intention to use an "unconventional method" to remove Doty from the picture.In their search to know the future, CIA and other elements in the U.S. Intelligence Community have been shadowed by a growing number of private "intelligence" operations.I wondered about their Internet presence as new clues to the UFO spy game came into focus.Ron Pandolfi, operating from the DIA for ODNI MASINT, wrote to a colleague and associate:"You and I both have interests and reasons for having interests in getting at the truth regarding activities that potentially threaten national security. Let me be clear... I am not implying any potential truth in the SERPO story. But behind any story there are motivations, players, and possibly facts that are rather disturbing. As such some of us are forced to ask some questions and try to get some answers."Within a few days Pandolfi had gone from paying his teenagers to delete SERPO-related emails to actively engaging the issue over "national security concerns" with allegations of questionable persons and access to government facilities.Pandolfi wrote to his colleague:"Your expansion of the story of the two DIA employees visiting LANL [Los Alamos National Laboratory] and being known to others has me concerned. The names you provided do not correspond to any DIA employees. There are no people with these names that have TS//SCI clearances. If the story of the sources/visitors is true, they are falsely representing themselves as DIA employees, possibly to access sensitive facilities and acquire classified information for a foreign service."Anytime the issue of falsification of government documents was raised, Pandolfi was ready to place the blame on Rick Doty. In July of 2006, Pandolfi wrote to me requesting certain information be withheld from an impending article about allegations that a USAF UFO source known as FALCON had been traced back to Col. Hennessey, who had appeared at a meeting at CIA arranged by Pandolfi following a 1988 national TV broadcast called UFO COVER-UP LIVE.Mr. Smith tells the story of the events that immediately followed the 1988 AVIARY disclosure:"Colonels Hennessey and Weaver [from the USAF] were called over to the CIA after the 1988 TV show [UFO COVER-UP LIVE] to discuss Rick Doty's situation. They denied any continuing connection with Doty, claiming he was nothing more than a petty criminal. The alleged proof of that was that Rick Doty had failed a polygraph test relative to his case. Kit Green [who was a former senior CIA analyst and division head] had [seen] the polygraph charts... the conclusion was that Doty had not lied."Pandolfi clarified his position on the Hennessey affair:"It was Doty who claimed Col. Hennessey was the Falcon, and it was Doty who claimed Col. Hennessey had provided him (Doty) with UFO documents for release to the public. My opinion is that Doty personally forged these documents, that he used the FALCON name to cover his tracks, and that he had absolutely no professional or personal relationship with Col. Hennessey."It didn't take long to discover a long trail of inconsistent statements made by Pandolfi. Various versions of the CIA meeting were put forth by Pandolfi, and Green's version was different as well.Regardless of any involvement by Hennessey in the FALCON matter, other documents evidence his involvement in dealing with persons snooping for information on the UFO issue, including a 1986 letter from the Defense Investigative Service that identifies Hennessey with the UFO topic.One of the messages released by Pandolfi appeared to be deliberately intended to deliver a bombshell concerning an alleged source for the SERPO tale:"I need you to know that Col. Weaver has contacted me and said he is Gene Loscowski. Her [sic] referred in detail to the meeting you and I had with Barry Hennessey about Rick's polygraph records... He quoted what I said, what you did, and the circumstances of the meeting to convince me of who he was. He also told me the essence of the SERPO story was true."Two items connected the threads of the story: the alleged polygraph interview of Rick Doty, and the "core story."I knew from experience that nothing in the UFO Spy Games was as it appeared.This review, and preview of things to come, will continue in part three.The series KNOWING THE FUTURE: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence, is available at STARpod.org.