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Sewell, in a postscript for the paperback version of his
book RED STAR ROGUE, writes:
"One of the early dives [of the NAVY's submersible Trieste II] in 1972, an
important piece of ... hardware was recovered [Sewell assumes this was from the
Soviet submarine, and concludes it was probably a nuclear warhead]. "
Sewell goes on to describe " the strange account of how the recovered item was
handled."
He writes:
"One of the large food freezers had been emptied to serve as a special storage
receptacle on the aft deck of the White Sands [the mother ship involved in the
Trieste operation] ... The item, which was concealed from the crew members' view
by a tarpaulin, was hoisted into the commandeered cooler and sealed inside ...
the chest and its contents remained under armed guard for the duration of the
mission."
Eventually, once the story had been revealed to the public by another media
source, TIME decided to come clean and tell their readers what they really knew.
In the March 31, 1975 issue, TIME reported:
"For months, right up to last week, William E. Colby, director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, spent a good deal of his time on an unusual undercover
task. By phone calls, visits and through his emissaries, Colby made contact with
a number of news organizations. His purpose: to persuade them, on national
security grounds, not to print a story that they all knew about -- the attempt
by the CIA to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the ocean bottom."
Leaks about the secret mission had begun long before the Glomar Explorer had
been launched on a mission to recovery something from the depths of the Pacific:
"Seymour Hersh of the New York Times first heard of the salvage operation's code
name, 'Project Jennifer,' but without details, in 1973."
Curiously, having recovered an important artifact from the site, and presumably
already equipped with a means of recovering additional materials from the
bottom, the NAVY approached then CIA Director Richard Helms to launch a mission
to recover the entire Soviet submarine.
"Soon his other top aides, who knew nothing about the proposal, became curious
about the brisk parade of Pentagon officials and high-ranking Navy officers that
passed through Helms' office."
Once the White House gave the OK, PROJECT JENNIFER approached Howard Hughes to
contract the construction of the recovery vessel and provide the cover story.
"Everyone, including TIME (July 29), accepted Hughes' account, and the press ran
glowing stories about the ship's capabilities ... the Glomar Explorer headed for
the open sea on June 20, 1974, ready at last to attempt the culmination of
Project Jennifer. By about mid-July the odd convoy reached the site of the
sunken Soviet sub. The delicate salvage operation got under way."
Adding to the mystery, documents about PROJECT JENNIFER on file at one of
Hughes' offices were stolen in June, just prior to the recovery operation, by a
sophisticated operation, including overcoming an electronic alarm system and
burning into the document safe using acetylene torches. Some speculated that
Hughes or CIA had been behind the break in, "to get rid of incriminating
documents."
STORY CONTINUES GOTO PAGE 3
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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.
KNOWING
THE FUTURE:
CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the
Extraterrestrial
Presence
Part
Sixteen:
A Small
Coincidence in the War on Terror
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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
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."
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