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Is
Ron Pandolfi
the CIA's "Real-life X-files" Fox
Mulder?
One man, and one man alone appears to occupy
the best possible position to probe into the facts, fantasies, and fallacies
behind the real-life "X-files" of UFOs, alien visitors, spies, lies, and
polygraph tape.
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06/10/2010 08:14 PM CST
(STARpod.org) -- Call it the "Weird Science of National
Insecurity."
According to official records released by the CIA, it's been going on since
1953.
According to the legend, it all started in the summer of 1947, near Roswell, New
Mexico.
Whispered alongside concerns about new Chinese offensive capabilities against
the US Pacific Fleet -- missile "bomblets" for which the US Navy has no existing
deterrent -- is the "phenomenology problem."
And if some of my sources, both inside and outside of
government, are to be believed, it always comes back to the UFO issue.
The question remains: are the UFOs from "out there" or is there a more earthly
explanation involving the intelligence community and deep black covert military
cover stories?
One man, and one man alone appears to occupy the best
possible position to probe into the facts, fantasies, and fallacies behind the
real-life "X-files" of UFOs, alien visitors, spies, lies, and polygraph tape.
And it is this same man, CIA's Ronald (Ron) S. Pandolfi, who, in the latter half
of 2006, forwarded a series of emails discussing a possible violation of
national security involving Internet tales of extraterrestrial visitations.
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The messages provided by Pandolfi tied together several threads aimed at
government disclosure of an alleged "phenomenology problem" -- and raised
disturbing new questions about methods, motivations, and sources behind
government-related persons and their involvement with forbidden topics.
Pandolfi first hit mainstream news pages in the late 1990s,
following an investigation of unauthorized technology transfers from American
defense contractors to the People's Republic of China.
Ken Timmerman, writing for the American Spectator, claimed
that "Ronald Pandolfi was the CIA's highest ranking scientist when he visited
the headquarters of Hughes Space and Communications in El Segundo, California in
1996."
Congressional Research Service Reports state
that:
"A CIA analyst, Ronald Pandolfi, briefed the Senate
Intelligence Committee on what he had found in 1995 about Hughes' review of the
explosion of a Long March rocket in January 1995. The CIA then allegedly alerted
Hughes about Pandolfi's briefing, reportedly according to an internal CIA cable
dated September 23, 1998. The committee then asked Attorney General Janet Reno
for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA improperly obstructed a Senate
investigation."
According to Timmerman, "After Pandolfi testified in closed
session before Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.),
he was removed from the China division and put to work on developing alternative
energy sources."
Some believe the "alternative energy sources" include exotic
spacecraft propulsion systems with capabilities associated with intelligently
controlled extraterrestrial flying objects.
By 1999, Pandolfi, already known for his involvement with
controversial official investigations of the CIA, was receiving attention for
his interest in alternative topics, like UFOs.
According to UFO investigator Grant Cameron, Pandolfi had
been busy working behind the scenes, several years before the Hughes affair, to
arrange the creation of a UFO briefing document for President Clinton's Science
Advisor Jack Gibbons.
A few years before being called to testify in the closed
Senate intelligence hearings, Pandolfi received a call from a foreign national
using the alias "Dr. Armen Victorian."
During a lengthy phone conversation "Dr. Victorian" grilled Pandolfi on his
involvement with the official weirdness that had transpired at the DIA in the
mid-1980s.
The DIA had been connecting their ultra-secret psychic spy research, which
included plans to track Soviet submarines using "anomalous mental phenomena," to
reports of unidentified flying objects.
At one point in the conversation Pandolfi mentions former New York Times
journalist Howard Blum and his book Out There.
Blum's narrative was built around his exposure of a secret government "UFO
Working Group."
In the recorded conversation obtained by STARstream Research, Pandolfi
nonchalantly tells "Dr. Victorian" that "I was a member of that working group."
Pandolfi goes on to discuss numerous points of interest to UFO researchers,
noting that his own interest in the UFO subject should not be interpreted as
representing official CIA involvement.
About this same time, Pandolfi struck up a friendship with
Dan Smith, who had been busy investigating crop circles with paranormal expert
Rosemary Ellen Guiley.
Dan Smith's claim to fame includes his father, Dan Throop
Smith, "a renowned Harvard economist who had served as the Treasury Department's
top tax adviser during the Eisenhower administration" according to the
Washington Post, and his older sister, Deborah, a friend of President George H.
W. Bush (according to the White House, as reported in another Washington Post
story).
My first direct contact from Ron Pandolfi arrived
unsolicited by email on September 30th, 2000.
Dan Smith had been involved in a hot discussion with a
private email discussion group. Smith was trying to convince the group that his
interactions with Pandolfi were evidence of CIA's interest in all things
paranormal.
Smith's contribution to conspiracy paranoia was summed up
in a not-too-well-disguised reference to the alleged MAJESTIC MJ-12 government
UFO cabal:
"Also it appears that Ron wants me to be a bus driver. He
wants me to obtain a bus and paint it to look like an 'official' MTA bus, and go
around the city picking up passengers at the bus stops, but instead of
delivering them to their usual destinations, I will take them on an
eschatological tour. When I told Ron that might be construed as being illegal,
he did not seem perturbed."
And then, for those not paying close attention, Dan added:
"Would I lie to you? Do you think for a minute that these
were not my 'official' instructions from a person who seems no longer inclined
to deny membership in 'MTA-12'?"
The elusive Pandolfi responded to the entire list:
"Is it a ferret or a weasel that Dan will be adopting for the
avian birthday? They are closely related, but they have very different
characteristics ... I am ready to purchase a bus ticket for Dan's eschatological
tour, as long as I get to select at least one of the stops. Who else will join
the adventure? Where will it end?"
Eschatology is the study of the final events, destiny and
fate of the human race. The "avian" birthday probably refers to a legendary
group of past and present government intelligence persons who had been assigned
bird names to conceal their identities as part of a 1980s UFO cover-up
investigation.
The recipients of Pandolfi's reply included former US Web
CEO Joe Firmage, who was investigating reverse engineered alien technology at
the International Space Sciences Organization, and psychic mentalist Uri Geller.
Dan Smith's "tour bus" of the "world wide web," the same
sticky net that had brought riches to Joe Firmage, was about to become a spidery
snare for intelligence persons and paranormal researchers around the globe.
It seemed that Dan Smith was at least half right about his
concern that he had been engaged by Pandolfi to gather together "persons of
interest."
In the intelligence world it is known as "flypaper theory."
Ultimately one learns that the paranormal "flypaper" is
shared by government officials in numerous services and agencies.
How they interact with each other over questions of
national security (in the midst of tales of psychic spying and alien
intervention) is harder to discern.
In
Jon Ronson's book The Men Who
Stare at Goats, Uri Geller, whose psychic powers had been officially
investigated by the CIA in the 1970s, claimed he had been recruited into George
Bush's War on Terror.
"The man who reactivated me is ..." Uri told Ronson, "called
Ron."
Smith claimed his friend at CIA had prior knowledge of the
events of September 11th, 2001.
"I understand that you have gone to the FBI with this information?" I asked.
"Correct. On about 9/19/01 I met with a female agent right outside the Baltimore
FBI office and gave her my and Ron's particulars and a synopsis of what had
transpired between us in the previous two weeks. She took notes and said they
would handle it. They would have already been aware of my being part of Ron's
special domestic collection effort. On that same day I also contacted Chris
Straub, former ranking member on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, with
whom Ron and I had previously met."
Smith told me about a previous trip to see the FBI.
The first time around it was concerning Ron's interest in
Dan and his "joint mission" with paranormal author Rosemary Ellen Guiley.
According to Smith, "In the previous attempt at a joint
mission (c. 1992) I was told, somewhat after the fact, that my prospective
partner's agenda was simply unknown. Whatever it was, it quickly degenerated
into her personal agenda. BTW, she was being vectored in my direction by ONI
(Office of Naval Intelligence). And now she has been vectored back to Towson, as
she announced last weekend."
Smith wrote to me, "The first time was to get some
feedback on CF [Smith's code for Pandolfi]. I was unable to get any until I had
three meetings with Chris Straub, c.'95. He was then the ranking staff member
for the Senate Intel. Comm. CF joined us for the final meeting that was in the
cafeteria. Bottom line: Chris was knowledgeable concerning eschatology, and he
told me, 'to rest assured that I was dealing with some very competent people'
... Recall that I was indirectly responsible for the Inspector General's
investigation of CF in '92-93, ... CF reported that it was a six month, $100K
investigation in which he was cleared of any wrong doing."
Many have questioned the veracity of Mr. Smith regarding his reporting of the
activities of his friend Ron Pandolfi, which Smith loosely conceals using "code
names" wrapped inside of his own philosophical meanderings.
Pandolfi confirmed to another researcher interested in UFO tales that were
spreading on the Internet:
"Although sometimes acting in the capacity of the insane, Mr. Smith is very
clever, capable, and well informed."
In 2004, I asked the FBI about Pandolfi and possible CIA
and DIA interactions with U.S. citizens over the Internet.
The email response to my inquiry arrived from the local
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
"Please call me with your concerns on this issue. You are
correct in that there are some guidelines that must be followed for contact but,
I am not comfortable detailing those here."
Apparently, whatever Pandolfi was involved in was too
sensitive to discuss by email.
On January 18, 2006, Dr. Jack Sarfatti, a physicist based in
San Francisco, forwarded an email to my attention.
Sarfatti speculated that Ron Pandolfi had sent the names of the DIA TIGER
committee members interested in UFO technology in an email "intercepted by NSA."
In typical spy-elicitation style, the message Sarfatti forwarded to me read:
"Jack, Ron P. told me today that you very likely know the names of all the
members of the National Academy of Sciences "UFO" tiger team. If this is true,
could you please tell me who they are. I have come up with something he wants
briefed to them. Mark."
Somewhere, hidden between real technology transfers and
alternative scientists interested in "reverse engineering UFO technologies," was
a hot potato national security issue.
Jeff Gerth, writing for the New York Times, tied the
previous Pandolfi affair to the White House:
"The concern of Congress involves broad issues of
national security. It was the Senate panel on proliferation that asked the
Pentagon to assess the national security implications of the 1995 accident
review. And the Senate Intelligence Committee, officials said, is looking at
whether what happened to Pandolfi is part of a larger question: Has the Clinton
administration's strategic partnership with Beijing affected the way the
intelligence community sees China?"
In the 1990s Pandolfi had been called before the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to testify about the transfer of
technology expertise to the Chinese by American defense contractors.
T en
years later,
China would be at the center of another technology
concern brought to Pandolfi's attention: the conversion of electromagnetic
microwaves to high frequency gravity waves.
In a video made by Jack Sarfatti with new-age physics author Fred Alan Wolf, Dan
Smith claimed Pandolfi was now running MASINT, a highly technical form of
intelligence on the front stage of the war on terror.
During the interview, filled with tall tales of an extraterrestrial visitation
"core story," Smith explained that Pandolfi had left CIA and was working for the
new Office of the Director of National Intelligence under the command of John
Negroponte.
Other items, forwarded to me, reinforced Smith's claims, including messages
bearing Pandolfi's Defense Intelligence Agency email address.
As with most of the rumors passed about the UFO community, and in spite of the
numerous sources who had taken one small footstep into the light, actual
confirmation seemed to remain firmly within Pandolfi's grasp.
In 2006, an acting source to STARstream Research
(STARpod.org) from the United Kingdom visited with Dan Smith, Ron Pandolfi and
Pandolfi's wife Susan.
Pandolfi later reported to us that our source, the foreign national, had asked
"inappropriate questions" about his "real work."
Both our source and Mr. Dan Smith deny this.
One possibly sensitive topic of conversation may have been the CIA's 1970s
Glomar recovery operation. Detailed information concerning the Glomar "Project
Jennifer" recovery remains a closely held secret.
According to Mr. Smith, as a young college student, Pandolfi was visited by "a
couple of suits" when he questioned the true nature of the Glomar operation,
based upon lab analysis of alleged Glomar samples provided by Pandolfi's uncle.
In June 2006, Mr. Smith described a conversation with Pandolfi involving the UFO
core story and a previous revelation of government complicity of the
extraterrestrial kind.
In the 1980s, UFO revelations were largely driven by a series of "leaked" but
unconfirmed documents about a government group known as MAJESTIC, presumably
managed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as MAJIC (JIC being the ubiquitous acronym
for Joint Intelligence Committee) and under command of MJ-12.
Over the years, an ever growing number of MJ related documents have been
debunked by skeptics for various perceived flaws and their idiosyncratic design.
Dan Smith reported, "Ron [Pandolfi] is now stating that some of the faked MJ-12
documents contained actually declassified information unrelated to UFO's ... Ron
wondered out loud if persons involved in the MJ-12 document affair would respond
to an FBI warrant concerning the transfer of classified material to the KGB."
The related 1988 national broadcast of
UFO Cover-Up Live,
which brought together American intelligence sources identified only by bird
names (the so-called AVIARY) with Soviet researchers, revealed SECRET government
information hidden within the broadcast.
One man whose name is often identified with investigation of the AVIAN/MJ-12
Affair is USAF Colonel Barry Hennessey.
It was Pandolfi who had initially blessed Smith's efforts to mention Barry
Hennessey in a public forum, as early as June 2006.
According to Smith, Pandolfi had been searching for traces of the USAF BLUE BOOK
during a visit to Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
BLUE BOOK was an acknowledged Air Force investigation into the UFO phenomena
which had been closed down at the end of the 1960s. According to Smith, Pandolfi
was working with someone who had been involved.
I wrote an article
about Pandolfi's involvement with the USAF UFO affair, and sent him a draft copy
for coments.
When Pandolfi asked that certain information be redacted from the article, he
cited protection of "sources and methods."
The mainstream media overlooked the fact that this highly placed senior
intelligence official was openly conducting intelligence-related activities on
the Internet.
Confirmation of Pandolfi's new role arrived when the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the sanitized version of
his High Frequency Gravity Wave Study.
"JASON (a group of elite scientific experts providing consultation services to
the government) was asked by staff at the National MASINT Committee of ODNI to
evaluate the scientific, technological, and national security significance of
high frequency gravitational waves (HFGW). The subject of High Frequency
Gravitational Waves (HFGW) has attracted considerable interest in the US
government over the last few years."
"We are especially grateful to Ronald Pandolfi and Mark
Pesses of ODNI for their continued help in arranging briefers and
documentation."
The release of the MITRE JASON study appears intended to
be an officially sanctioned "outing" of Pandolfi. Names of active government
officials are often redacted from official documents.
The JASON study initiated by Pandolfi debunked a
Chinese-American research collaboration into the theory and application of "high
frequency gravity waves" (HFGW) for communication and surveillance.
Some theories of HFGW are loosely related to the esoteric research of UFO
propulsion systems, including the so-called Podkletnov effect, named after the
Russian experimentalist who briefly dazzled the aerospace industry, including
NASA, with claims of antigravity effects and gravity-like force beams.
The UFO physics of high frequency gravity waves, the
Chinese connection, and a possible case of international espionage concealed
inside the UFO "core story" were the proverbial tips of the iceberg.
My own "considerable interest," which had originated with
Mr. Smith's observations, had been confirmed in an "official document," less the
"classified portion" which I suspected would include information about the
Chinese connection.
I wondered how much more could be learned from Smith's cryptic references to his
friend?
When I was first made aware of Dr. Pandolfi's position at
ODNI, Pandolfi requested that I remove his association with DIA and MASINT from
one of my articles.
In addition to the testimony provided by Smith, an email was forwarded to me
from Pandolfi confirming that he was working out of an office operated by the
DIA. Some email messages sent by Pandolfi appeared to have originated from DIA
servers.
Dan Smith cited several items which he believed signaled the possibility of a
core revelation, including Pandolfi's "recent elevation at DNI [Office of the
Director of National Intelligence]," a book by former USAF Captain Robert
Collins which claimed to reveal the details behind an outlandish government
cover-up of the UFO core story, and a proposed meeting to approach Dr. Henry
Kissinger, who was rumored to have held the highest level position within an
alleged UFO committee at the National Security Council.
"Mr. Smith is correct regarding my position with the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence," Pandolfi would later write to one researcher, a fact now
verified by the official release of Pandolfi's DIA/MASINT high frequency gravity
wave study.
"Currently my component is housed within a DIA facility and we use their servers
for Internet access so my official e-mail ends with @dia.mil."
Pandolfi had questioned whether the seduction of otherworldly sources within the
core story had been used to penetrate the blackness of government secrecy.
Whether or not there is
any truth to the tales of extraterrestrial involvement, one thing is clearly
reflected in this "wilderness of mirrors": the U.S. government is actively
involved, for whatever reason, with the UFO community.
Pandolfi has since moved on to another government office,
based upon reports from both Dan Smith and Mark Pesses of the ODNI MASINT.
His new assignment remains unknown.
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Spies, Lies,
and Polygraph Tape:
On the trail of
the goat killers ...
Who is the mysterious "Ron" in Jon Ronson's
book, The Men Who Stare at Goats?
Comment
06/02/2010 11:30 AM CST
(STARpod.org) --
A
few years ago British
author Jon Ronson wrote a
very entertaining book titled "The
Men Who Stare at Goats," about
the American military interest in Anomalous
Mental Perturbation, a scientific term for mind over matter, or
psychokinesis.
Ronson's search for 'the goat people' began with a clue offered by
world-famous psychic (and former
covert CIA test subject!) Uri Geller.
According to Ronson's book, Uri said "The man who reactivated me is ...
called Ron." And that
was it. ..."
Anyone who is a regular reader of this blog knows who Ron is.
Either Ronson didn't know, or wasn't comfortable in revealing Ron's
identity, which was
then left to us.
The reason for all of this, now, is we are still on
the trail of 'the goat killers' based
upon a few curiosities found in the STAR GATE files, including a
project named PHOENIX, which is related to the mind over matter
issue and, possibly, Russian work on torsion or spin fields.
Meanwhile, here are the other references to Ron,
thanks to Amazon's on-line reader service:
| 1. |
on Page 12: |
| "... will tell you one more thing only. The man who
reactivated me is ..." Uri paused, then he said, "called Ron."
And that was it. ..." |
| 2. |
on Page 13: |
| "... " And so it was that my quest to track down Ron took
me to Hawaii, to a house on the road between Honolulu and Pearl
Harbor, ..." |
| 3. |
on Page 14: |
| "... My plan was to ask Glenn about his psychic spying days
and then try to broach the sub- ject of Ron,
..." |
| 4. |
on Page 53: |
| "... "Big bonfires!" he said. "And guys with snakes on their
heads!" He laughed. "Have you heard of Ron?"
I asked him. "Ron?" said Colonel Alexander. ..." |
| 5. |
on Page 248: |
| "... Uri Geller had his telephone call from Ron,
but that is all I know about Uri and Ron.
A number of second-generation remote viewers ( ..." |
| 6. |
on Page 250: |
| "... again." "I know that," I said. I told him about Ed and
Angela and Prudence and Uri and the mysterious Ron.
250 -9 el ..." |
| 7. |
on Page 251: |
| "... THE EXIT "I don't suppose you know who Ron is?"
I asked him. "I'm not talking about those remote viewers," he
said. ..." |
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