AQUARIUM REPORT: CIA'S UNDERSEA RECOVERY AND UFO ALIEN CADAVER TALES

The CIA's biggest secret project has strange connections to the CIA's weirdest projects: psychic spies and UFOs. To add to the mystery, Mr. Smith tells a tale of an encounter with a couple of body bags, with a twist.

The first report in a new series based upon the misadventures of government disclosure.

(STARpod.org) / from the stargate007 files -- The mission and the recovery remain a closely guarded secret: what exactly was the purpose behind the CIA's 1974 massive undersea operation, conducted on behalf of the US NAVY, and what exactly was recovered?

In a SECRET/SENSITIVE Memorandum for the Record, dated 2 December 1976, then Director of Central Intelligence George H.W. Bush states:

"Glomar Explorer: I stated to the President that we had leveled, and that the TIME magazine story which was out yesterday was totally false."

According to the December 6, 1976, issue:

"TIME has learned that PROJECT JENNIFER did in fact succeed: the entire wreck, a 320-ft.-long Golf-class II diesel-powered submarine built in 1961, was recovered virtually intact. Confirms a senior U.S. Navy officer: 'It was all one hell of a success.' Why the partial-recovery story? The CIA remains mum about its motives but the agency evidently had a dual aim. For one thing, it wanted to defend the high cost of Jennifer—about $550 million, all billed to the Navy. At the same time, the agency wanted to avoid unnecessarily embarrassing the Russians, who, U.S. intelligence officials knew, would not fall for the CIA's story anyway."

The meeting between DCI Bush and the President is one of only a handful of documents CIA has released concerning the TOP SECRET PROJECT JENNIFER Glomar Explorer recovery operation, which took place in July 1974.

The alleged target for the recovery was the Soviet nuclear submarine K-129, which had mysteriously sunk to a depth of more that 16,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in March of 1968.

CIA had cleverly created a plausible back story for the operation.

Over a period of many months, TIME magazine slowly shifted from presenting the original back story to releasing bits and pieces of information the CIA Director had asked be withheld for national security reasons.

In the July 29, 1974 issue, which was published as the operation was underway, TIME reported:

"About 100 companies and half a dozen governments are now actively working on nodule-mining technology. Billionaire Howard Hughes seems to be ahead of the pack. With characteristic Hughes secrecy, his Summa Corp. is testing a specially built, 36,000-ton, $100 million deep-ocean mining ship, Glomar Explorer, off Hawaii. The ship stations itself over a potential site, then lowers its TV-equipped mining apparatus, along with connecting pipe, through a large well in the hull. Once the mining gear hits bottom some two or three miles down, it slurps up nodules from the ocean floor like a huge vacuum cleaner."

Having identified the wreckage on the ocean floor and, according to numerous accounts, having explored the site in detail, the NAVY approached the CIA for assistance in mounting the greatest (and most expensive!) recovery operation in history.

Curiously, the historical record and witness accounts provided to author Kenneth Sewell suggest that the NAVY had already recovered something mysterious from the site in 1972.

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"Congratulations on finding those excellent STAR GATE 1986/WTC stuff. A brilliant find: historically important and very convincing." --  Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare At Goats 

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS: BEST EVIDENCE

STARpod.org provides best evidence for Jon Ronson's book (the inspiration for the new movie starring George Clooney) -- including files from the CIA STAR GATE collection .

This is a developing special feature and we will be growing the database leading up to the release of the feature film on November 6th, 2009.

Along the way we'll explore Uri Geller's role, the use of psychic spies for the war on terror, and the operational psychic units used by the military. We'll explore the psychic - UFO connections as well.

• JON RONSON and THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS -- A REVIEW

• THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS -- THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGENDS

• RON and THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS

• NEW: The Igor Smirnov STAR GATE file

"The U.S. intelligence community had been spying on Igor Smirnov for years. It seemed he'd succeeded in creating a system of influencing people from afar -- putting voices into their heads, remotely altering their outlook on life -- perhaps without the subjects even knowing it was being done to them ... This was a man once feted by the Soviet government, which -- ten years later -- had instructed him to blast his silent messages at Red Army troops on their way to Afghanistan. Those messages said, "Do not get drunk before battle." But the glory days were long gone by March 1993 -- the month Igor Smirnov received a telephone call, out of the blue, from the FBI. Could he fly to Arlington, Virginia, right away? Igor Smirnov was intrigued, and quite amazed, and he got on a plane." -- Jon Ronson, THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS page 185.

"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 SRI psychic spy research project in the early 1970s.

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KNOWING THE FUTURE:

  CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence

Part Sixteen: A Small Coincidence in the War on Terror

• The United States Intelligence Community once employed psychics as part of their intelligence efforts
• Fusing information from psychic sources eventually predicted a "threat" to the Port of Long Beach
• A small coincidence would only add to the mystery.
• NEW: Discussion hosted by Open Minds Forum

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ON SCARY THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST

Defense journalist Sharon Weinberger writes: "In the future anything is possible, but not all things are equally possible." We would have added: "Anything that does not defy the laws of physics is not only possible, but must take place, somewhere, in the multiverse."