Eventually, and after repeated Court hearings, the NSA was
forced to release some of their documents. However of the 582 lines of type so
released, 412 had been blacked out by a censor and a further eleven pages of
text had disappeared altogether. The reason that the NSA gave for this, however,
has legitimacy. Essentially the NSA
argued that their work involved intercepting foreign communications. Regardless
of the content of the information, disclosure of the records could identify
communications that had been successfully intercepted, thus giving foreign
intelligence information on which to base countermeasures against the NSA's
intelligence gathering techniques. However, it is clear that the NSA had attempted to mislead, as
had the CIA, whose position that "The Robertson Panel's Report is the summation
of the Agency's interest and involvement in this matter" was severely doubted by
researchers.
And these researchers proved to be right. Largely due to the
efforts of Todd Zechel together with Bill Spaulding almost 1000 pages of CIA UFO-related documents were
released into the public domain in 1978 under the Freedom Of Information Act.
(However, it is believed that a further 10,000 documents are still withheld at
the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.) The FBI also proved to be untruthful in their statement that
"the investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects is not and never has been a
matter that is within the jurisdiction of the FBI." Just three years later, the
agency was forced through the courts to release 1,100 pages of UFO related
documents dating back to the Second World War. You can almost hear an
embarrassed official in court muttering "Oh, you mean those UFO
documents."
Yet, although each
of the major agencies had covered-up their involvement in the investigation of
the UFO phenomenon, the documents they were eventually forced to release appear
to show that none of these agencies actually knew what was going on, nor could
they account for the range and multitude of sightings of unidentified aerial
phenomena. They also show that each major agency didn't even know what
each other was up to. For example, on 10th July 1947 a FBI Memorandum from
E. G. Fitch to D. M. Ladd, entitled 'Flying Discs' stated "General Schulgen
[deputy Chief of Air Intelligence in the Pentagon] assured Mr --------- that
there are no War Department or Navy department research projects presently being
conducted which could in any way be tied up with the flying disks." This memo ended
with a recommendation from its recipient that the FBI not get involved with
investigations into 'flying disks', however FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, held
a different view. In a hand-written note on the bottom of the letter he wrote "I would do
it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to discs recovered.
For instance in the SW case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for
cursory examination." Within weeks this
certainty became less convincing. A further memo to Ladd dated
8th August 1947 stated "Certainly the Bureau has no way to determine
what experiments the Army and Navy were conducting and whether such [flying
saucer reports] might be arising out of experiments being conducted by them."
Equally unreassuring is that this memo was a reply to a request by the US War
Department for the FBI "to conduct investigation to determine the origin of
flying discs" (3). They didn't know what was going on either.
Further evidence that each agency did not know what the other
was up to was exemplified in another FBI memorandum dated eleven days later on
19th August 1947. This memo read "Special Agent ... of the Liaison
Section ... expressed the possibility that flying discs were, in fact, a very
highly classified experiment of the Army or Navy. Mr ... was very much surprised
when Colonel ... not only agreed that this was a possibility, but confidentially
stated that it his personal opinion that such was a possibility ... he based his
assumption on the following: He pointed out that when flying objects were
reported seen over Sweden, the "high brass" of the War Department exerted
tremendous pressure on the Air Forces Intelligence to conduct research and
collect information in an effort to identify these sightings. Colonel ... stated
that, in contrast to this, we have reported sightings of unknown objects over
the United States, and the "high brass" appeared to be totally unconcerned. He
indicated that this led him to believe that they knew enough about these objects
to express no concern." (4). However, the following month the Air Force appeared to deny
that their activities were behind the UFO sightings as a letter from General Schulgen, deputy Chief of Air Intelligence in the Pentagon, to the Director of
the FBI dated 5th September confirms:
"In answer to a
verbal request of your Mr S. W. Reynolds, a complete survey of research
activities discloses that the Army Air Forces has no project with the
characteristics similar to those which have been associated with Flying Discs." However, the issue was being taken very seriously and certainly
not being dismissed as nonsense as later became official policy as recommended
by the Robertson Panel, of which more later.
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