Did Donald Rumsfeld's Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) reopen STAR GATE paranormal and paraphysical research programs? Is this the oft-mentioned government phenomenology problem Dan T. Smith claims to have discussed with CIA's Ron Pandolfi and Senate Select Intelligence Committee member Chris Straub in 1995?According to our source, Chrisopher Robinson of the United Kingdom, they were, at the very least, quite interested in potential benefits from paranormal research. One of the more revealing insights into the Rumsfeld OSD is found in an email Robinson printed many years ago.I will refer to the redacted source of the message -- apparently a mediator acting on Robinson's behalf -- as "Mr. X."In the message Mr. X writes:"Saw Chris Mellon this morning. He is treating your information as they do a "walk in" (individual who just shows up with something of interest). He is particularly interested in new and novel scenarios and possibilities as well as specific warnings that you might have."There's a lot to be gleaned from the above paragraph.First, there's identification of Chris Mellon. According to Mellon's LinkedIn profile, following seven years on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (where we know he was briefed on DIA's STAR GATE paranormal programs and similar projects in the Former Soviet Union), from November 1999 to December 2002, Mellon was Professor of Information Warfare in the National Security Studies Program and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. The email provided by Robinson is dated June 20, 2002.It is interesting that Robinson was seen as a "walk-in" -- this often refers to a person from a foreign nation who volunteers intelligence and who might be acting as a covert agent for that foreign nation, with the goal of offering information to penetrate American intelligence interests.And finally, one might ask why someone at this level of government would be interested in a psychic's premonitions of future events. There are two reasons given. The first is there may be useful information if the psychic has dreamed up new and unforseen threat scenarios. The second requires acceptance of paranormal perception -- anomalous mental perception of real events that have yet to take place. Chris Robinson is best known for his warning of aircraft used as cruise missiles against the tall buildings in New York City prior to 9/11.Robinson's other known intellgence connection is with Thomas A. Drake, the former senior NSA official who became famous after the Justice Department unsuccessfully charged him under the Espionage Act for whistle-blowing. According to an organizational chart at www.defense.gov, the NSA falls under the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.Another person Robinson identified from Rumsfeld's Office of the Secretary of Defense is Linton Wells II. According to Mr. Wells' LinkedIn profile, during the time of interest he was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (Networks and Information Integration).
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WE CAN BE HEROES, JUST FOR ONE DAY
ByBilly Cox
De Void
9-28-10
The Air Force is in a pickle. It can't refute the seven veterans who told a National Press Club audience on Monday that UFOs had been surveilling and even disabling portions of America's nuclear missile arsenal since the 1960s. Not without calling these guys liars. And maybe even having to conduct prosecutions for security-oath violations. So on Tuesday, it resorted to the old buzz-off gimmick that's always worked before.
"This is what our position is," said Vicki Stein on the Air Force press desk at the Pentagon. "And we're standing by it."
She e-mailed De Void a rigid "fact sheet" that hasn't switched gears since 1969, the same one that retired USAF captain Robert Salas held up as a fraud Monday afternoon. Last reissued in 2005, the press release informs taxpayers that "No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security."
No need to rehash the details of yesterday's press conference here; De Void has written about the subject before, and the testimony is all over the Internet now. After he and his colleagues - including a former base commander, and combat crew commander, and a missile-targeting officer - finished up, Salas charged the same document "is clearly misleading, it is false, based on our testimonies."
Unpolished, a tad nervous, often reading from prepared statements, their names - Charles Halt, Robert Jamison, Jerry Nelson, Patrick McDonough, Bruce Fenstermacher, Dwynne Arneson and Salas - deserve to be mentioned again because what they did took stones. Not only did they contradict the longstanding policy of the agency responsible for their pensions, with nothing to gain they stood up to face a glib media ensemble which has proven historically incapable of reporting this issue.
Although CNN, to its credit, streamed the conference live, none of the big boys bothered to staff it. As Washington Post columnist John Kelly (who had the integrity to admit he only showed up for the cookies) noted, the media turnout was largely fringe or obscure.
Try to imagine USAF veterans with all the proper DD-214s coming forward to discuss the crippling of our nukes by any other means - saboteurs, freak atmospherics, design flaws, whatever - during a period when we and the Soviets were spring-loaded to obliterate each other. At least two questions would demand answers: 1) How does the Defense Department respond to these allegations, and 2) What counter-measures have since been enacted to guarantee the security of our nuclear stockpiles? But neither of these issues were raised, because the A-Team didn't show.
Although a few outfits like Stars and Stripes played it straight, most of the coverage was as predictable as fleas on dogs. "I don't take this stuff at face value (to say the least), but I do love a grand yarn," blogged Brian Caulfield of Forbes magazine. "That's right," added Wired's Spencer Ackerman. "Earth is being monitored by intergalactic hippies." Popular Science: "Paging Fox Mulder."
The event, staged by UFO researcher/author Robert Hastings, will dissipate within a news cycle or two. An Air Force policy position that hasn't changed since U.S. troops were being blown apart in Vietnam will see to that. But for an hour and a half on Monday afternoon in the nation's capitol, long after their military careers ended, seven veterans who've had their fill of avoidance and denial proved to the world they still know how to serve their country.
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