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

RUSSIANS AND AMERICANS

BY GARY S BEKKUM

(STARpod.org) -- Many believed 1999 would herald the beginning of the end of the world.

As it turned out, both Nostradamus and Prince were wrong.

1999 began with the end of Joe Firmage's position at the multi-billion dollar company he had founded only a few years earlier.

Freed from his corporate responsibilities at US Web, Firmage directed his International Space Sciences Organization to uncover the secret of extraterrestrial UFO propulsion.

A front page story in the San Francisco Chronicle explained that Firmage had left "the firm he founded so he could promote his belief that many of today's high-tech advancements, including semiconductors, fiber optics and lasers, came from aliens."

Some of the inspiration lurking behind Firmage's belief in the existence of extraterrestrial technology had been reinforced by the highly controversial MAJESTIC MJ-12 UFO documents.

The alleged government documents had been declared "BOGUS" by the FBI -- a possibility Firmage had to consider in spite of his belief in the aliens.

In a press release issued just prior to leaving USWeb, Firmage wrote:

"If the [MAJESTIC] documents are partial or complete forgeries, then they were written by an intelligence agency of the government of either the United States or the Soviet Union."

According to FBI records, the decision to label the MAJESTIC documents as "BOGUS" was based upon input from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

A Freedom of Information Request made to the AF OSI by investigator Lee Graham produced nothing -- not a single record existed at OSI concerning MAJESTIC.

One might reasonably wonder why there is no record or memo of OSI contact with the FBI.

Although Firmage had pointed to questionable documents to support his quest, real government documents, released by the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, were about to see the light of day.

One long-suspected secret confirmed by the United States Government was the existence of a formerly operational psychic spy program run by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The psychic spies used a form of clairvoyance called "remote viewing" to collect intelligence against various foreign and enemy targets, including Soviet facilities.

DIA nicknamed the program STAR GATE. According to a government memo, STAR GATE was intended to collect intelligence on foreign developments.

One of the principle military psychics, Ingo Swann, went public with a tale of aliens on the moon and a personal UFO encounter mediated by a super-secret organization in the 1970s.

The story of Ingo Swann's alien encounters was revisted in my article "To the Moon and Back, With Love," available at the starpod.org website.

Paul Werbos is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation.

In 1999, Werbos addressed the problem of explaining psychic remote viewing:

"Many people at this conference have expressed hope that quantum mechanics might explain things like remote viewing or like the collective unconscious of Jung -- wild, crazy things ... if you want to explain strange things like remote viewing, the only way is by assuming strange force fields and strange signal processing ... Either you give up on these phenomena -- you give up on all that stuff -- or else you have to open yourself up to really crazy things ..."

Ten years have passed since Werbos gave his talk and Firmage initiated his UFO investigation.

Today it is not MAJESTIC, but HER MAJESTY's Secret Files that provide a slim entry into the international intrigue hidden under the rubric of exotic technology.

Daz Smith is the author of "Surfing the Psychic Internet."

Curious as to what exactly Her Majesty's Ministry of Defence actually knew, Smith filed a request for copies of the "British X-files."

Smith shared with me a 2008 Freedom of Information response from the MoD.

"X-files" provided by the MoD revealed Her Majesty's official interest in fringe subjects like gravitation, zero point energy extracted from empty space, and other novel energy technologies which had been the focus of Joe Firmage's UFO venture.

The MoD files also make note of "novel phenomena" like psychic "remote viewing," "bio-effects psychotronics," requests for copies of US psychic research by the Stanford Research Institute, and exotic morphogenetic fields thought to control DNA in living organisms.

Redacted copies of email communications discuss "bioactivity of DNA-modulated radiowaves" and other pseudo-scientific fringe research from the former Soviet Union.

Other formerly secret MoD "UFO" files discuss propulsion related exotic hypothetical physics, the so-called torsion, spin, or leptonic fields, noting:

"Large scale studies of 'torsion fields' and their manifestation in nature have been made in Russia and, it is claimed, 'have resulted in the development of several unique methods and technologies unparalleled anywhere in the world and with which important fundamental and applied problems can be tackled in many areas of science and technology."

Applications of this alleged Russian super-technology were claimed to include "remote sensing," and "extraction, filtering, visualization, processing and analysis of torsion field information" -- however, there was "no indication in the papers discovered of the potential use of torsion fields for direct propulsion."

And, according to documents produced for the International Space Sciences Organization from 1999 to 2000, torsion fields had been a core topic of study in collaborative efforts with the Russians.

A congressional mandate had led to the disclosure of STAR GATE, in part to effect cooperation with former Soviet researchers.

In 2005, an anonymous source "UFO Black Ops" posted an explanation of events at ISSO on the Internet:

"This was an operation done with full knowledge of top levels of the USG Intelligence Community who monitored it. Several former Soviet-bloc physicists were brought in as consultants including Dr. Valdimir Poponin, allegedly a personal acquaintance of Gorbachev's. We were interested in evaluating the controversial claims of 'Russian torsion field weapons' and, therefore brought Gennady Shipov over from Moscow several times. On one trip Shipov lived with Sarfatti for about 2 weeks. Richard Hammond, an American physicist from Fargo working on torsion fields for US Navy at one time was brought in as well as R. Kiehn a former scientist for US SAC and retired professor from University of Houston. Shipov worked with Akimov in Moscow who allegedly had strong military connections in the Soviet era."

In the Autumn of 2000, as ISSO operations were about to wind down, email based discussions of alternative physics and consciousness topics between ISSO researchers and others across the globe arrived daily on my computer screen.

NASA had invested in a Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program to travel to the stars.

In Europe, BAE Systems had a similar program called Project Greenglow.

Former Soviet block researchers were involved in everything exotic from torsion spin fields to cold fusion and beyond.

A high-ranking CIA analyst named Ron Pandolfi popped in for a comment or two in response to his civilian friend Dan Smith's cryptic allegations concerning "the extraterrestrials at Los Alamos."

Gary E.R. Schwartz would soon be testing "dream detective" Chris Robinson at the University of Arizona. By August of 2001, Robinson would be suffering from nightmares of airplanes crashing into buildings.

And a young engineering student named Ziad Jarrah was preparing to fly a plane into the U.S. Capitol Building, just as military psychics had warned he would do, in 1983.

PART FOUR: A HIDDEN AGENDA