Avian dreams: Mr. Smith goes to Washington ... This is a true story about a couple of "tricky fish" floating in the intelligence pond affectionately known as "The Aquarium." Like all good fish tales, the size of the catch has almost certainly been exaggerated. On the other hand we may have uncovered a tale of a sea monster or two lurking beneath the surface. From the world of psychic spies, paranormal goat killers, and Skinwalkers haunting remote regions of Utah, something wicked and wacky this way comes. Our real-life "X-files" mystery continues with the introduction of a few strange characters and even stranger ideas.

"Uri," I said, "please give me something to go on. Please tell me one more thing." Uri sighed. "Okay," he said. "I will tell you one more thing only. The man who reactivated me is . . ." Uri paused, then he said, "called Ron."  From page 12 of The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson...

Let us introduce one of the main characters in our Orwellian tale, a man we shall designate as Ron.
Ron has a job doing the work of the U.S. Government. His employer, an intelligence agency, doesn't say a great deal about what Ron actually does. We do know more about Ron than many of his associates thanks to his brief appearance in the New York Times a few years ago. More on that later.

Ron developed the reputation of being the chief phenomenologist at the CIA. Something about a file filled with strangeness called the "weird desk." It is said that Ron inherited this assignment from a certain retired CIA officer, who continues as government consultant in the critical area of reviewing advanced technologies with possible military applications. This gentleman holds the distinction of appearing in a photograph in the March, 2006 "Reader's Digest."

Inside the alleged "weird desk" is the "core story" about visitors not of our world. The extraterrestrial tale has spread with some help from a group of present and former intelligence agents and military types in a loose network popularly known as "The Aviary." Another source with close ties to the alleged members of the Aviary group revealed that the same core story had been confirmed by the former Director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms, just prior to his death in 2002.

We wondered if the "weird desk" really existed. So did Nick Cook from Jane's Information Group. Nick asked us, and so we inquired. We contacted an associate of Ron's in the private sector, that we shall designate Mr. Smith.

"Ron's activities are either overt or covert with respect to the so-called visitors, per Mr. Smith. I suggest they are covert, perhaps even with respect to his activities at DIA...As I have already pointed out to Mr. Smith, it is suggested that Ron is working as CIA representative at DIA on passive radar technologies and their various applications, which might include foreign stealth and of stealthy UFO's ...In other words Ron may be working with DIA on improved methods for tracking 'visitors' - a situation brought briefly to the public's attention by the Mexican report on invisible UFO's ..."

A MITRE document confirmed that a new kind of radar is under development, using personal computers.

 We suspect that the new radar is a passive system intended to detect unwanted intrusions into U.S. air space. As for the nature of the intruders, that is best left to the imagination. There has been a great deal of chatter by persons in the know that the UFO question, in particular the military implication of violation of sovereign airspace, is taken very seriously. Unless there is a terrestrial explanation for the intruders, we must assume that those (sources) protected by classification have also accepted the possibility that this phenomenology is foreign to our world. As Mr. Smith tells us, this is a "gray area" - a useful term which implies that the interpretation is ambiguous and open to manipulation by the most powerful players.

Recently we learned through a back channel source with close ties to intelligence types in suits, that our disclosure of an interest in all things 'alien' by members of the DIA sponsored TIGER committee had provoked a split between some of the key players. TIGER is the "standing committee on Technology Insight-Gauge Evaluate Review." Naturally our first reaction was that anyone desiring confidentiality would not intentionally promote the fact that such a committee existed in the first place. Putting two and two together, and adding in a bit of raw speculation we obtain five. Our present opinion is that there is a rift and that the reference to the committee on an open email list of government employees and journalists was deliberate. The said result apparently threatened the continuance of the UFO group on the committee. Sabotage might be too strong a word but that is how it is beginning to look from our end.

In 1993 the DIA STAR GATE project initiated a pilot study into the feasibility of using telepathy for command, control and communication for soldiers behind enemy lines, in situations where normal communication wasn't possible. If the government is serious about developing mind to mind com links, then they must also be considering the threat of 'foreign' developments. This is known as C^4: Command, Control, Communication, Computers. Telepathy merely takes this to the next level. It provides a command and control signal line for communication. The computer is the biological material inside the human brain. Wiggle this brain here, and that one over there responds. Wiggle hard enough, and perhaps you have created a remote control system.

Combine the ideas behind passive radar with telepathy, and you have a unique C^4 system capable of distinguishing the flow of unconscious information around the planet. The Aviary is concerned not so much with the hardware of an 'alien' civilization, but with a deeper and more sinister dilemma. Take command and control of the flow of the collective unconscious mind, and you have taken control of the human race. A meme is an idea that spreads like a virus: an idea that replicates, evolves and infects like the common cold, moving from host to host. It would seem that the Aviary's "core story" has revealed a virus of unearthly intent set upon the leadership of our planet.

Getting past the sci-fi implications of a paranormal C^4 scenario, we have to wonder about all of the smoke and mirrors presented by the alleged Avian virus. Will Mr. Smith make it in time to warn Washington? What about the White House? Are they ready for this? Are these folks for real?

A shape shifting intelligence had arrived on the scene for an unknown nefarious purpose. The effect was brief, but effectively shocking. Spun into our world the unearthly source appeared to grow an arm, and then a hand flowed from the shapeless mass, and reached out for the human's wrist. A strong tugging sensation gave way to total shock passing through the body, as the entity pulled its human host towards the tunnel...  Part Five: Brain Meets Brane