EXEMPT
from Legal Recourse:
Spies, Lies,
and Polygraph Tape?
"You have no legal recourse.
I am interpreting your threat to the Official of the Director of
National Intelligence as potentially outside the legal
framework, and I will advise the FBI and your supervisor to take
appropriate actions."
By Gary S. Bekkum,
Starstream Research Founder
The highest levels of the intelligence community are
entangled in a snare of lies surrounding the "core story":
A
tale of contact with an intelligence not of this world.
Starstream Research investigates.
Numerous violations of trust paved the trail that brought us
to the heart of this tale, a sordid affair of betrayal,
disinformation, and sheer confusion.
Caught up by the spinning web of a viral, self-organizing and
self-reproducing mind-game born within the dark confines of the
intelligence community, a handful of well placed intelligence
advisers are discretely moving towards public disclosure. Each
man presents a personal clouded vision of the shattered pieces of
a dark puzzle, begging for life in an assembled nightmare of the
future.
The enigma at the heart of the 'core story' is embedded within a
belief system fostered by very intelligent, well educated
professionals -- men tasked with the security and safety of a
nation -- men who cannot come forward directly, but by necessity
reside under the cover offered to deep background sources.
In the midst of the roiling turmoil we have been handed a
shocking revelation:
There has been talk at the highest levels of the U.S.
Government about an otherworldly intelligence, and contact was
with physical, materially real entities.
We have been informed that this comes from the direct testimony
of senior government officers.
One name that was passed was the late Richard Helms, former
Director of Central Intelligence. Helms allegedly confirmed to
an unwitting source at the National Research Council the same
core story of physical contact with another world.
Apparently rumor respects no rank in the intelligence community.
Perhaps the real shock is that the nation's former top
intelligence executive, a man
once charged with oversight of the entire intelligence
community, could so readily accept such a tall tale as fact.
However, there is far more to this tale than the core story.
The story is broad and infects all aspects of the intelligence
and security of the nations of this world. It even plays a role
in the current crisis with Iran over nuclear technology, albeit
indirectly.
Regardless of the truth of the rumor wrapped inside the core
story, there is a race between the nations to discover the next
level of the intelligence game.
The next level is firmly supported by the core story, because it
involves tampering with the human mind and forcing a
confrontation with an alien environment. This is the landscape
where the intelligence game becomes the key objective and counterintelligence
operations play out as the nemesis of
morality.
Confirmation of high-level government belief in physical contact
with
'higher intelligence' remains a signature event, nonetheless.
Starstream Research intends to maintain an on-going
investigation and relationship with sources to further explore
the origin of the core story, and the intersection of the key
players with earthly intelligence operations.
The earthly intersection leads directly to Dr. Ronald S. (Ron)
Pandolfi, a former CIA analyst brought into the public limelight
many years ago in a story by Jeff Gerth published by the New
York Times. Pandolfi is no stranger to controversy, having
produced a 1996 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that warned
of the transfer of sensitive missile information from Hughes
Electronic Corporation to China. Pandolfi's NIE was ultimately
rejected, but questions over the politics that killed the report
resulted in Pandolfi's testimony at a closed session of the
Senate Intelligence Committee.
Dr. Pandolfi's interests continue to focus on the dangers of
advanced technology. Based upon his semi-public presence as
communicated over the Internet, Pandolfi appears to have been
caught with his fingers in the alternative science and
technology cookie-jar. Whether or not Dr. Pandolfi's interests
are merely an overt expression of his personal interest in
science-fiction technology, or originate from a deeper covert
monitoring of the
scientific underground, remains to be determined.
In the past Dr. Pandolfi requested that we withhold information
about his current activities within the intelligence community.
Pandolfi even expressed some concern about email messages that
mentioned his name. In October of 2004 he wrote to us, "I am an
open employee meaning there is no secret concerning my
employment with CIA. That does not mean I endorse Dan [Dan T.
Smith, an associate of Pandolfi in the private sector] or others
spreading my name over e-mail distributions. Please assist by
keeping my name out of your e-mails. Thanks."
We found this curious on several fronts.
Dr. Pandolfi's activities are easily accessible to anyone with
an Internet connection and the Google search engine. For
example, following the Hughes report, Dr. Pandolfi organized an
allegedly 'private' group called TACP, the Technology Assisted
Counter-Poaching initiative, based in Arlington, Virginia.
The TACP 'network' involved the use of advanced surveillance
systems, ostensibly to help protect an endangered species
against poaching by organized crime. Pandolfi assembled an
impressive staff that included experts in physics based
simulation, communication systems engineering, and a senior
systems analyst and specialist in Russian sensor technologies.
Whether or not 'wild tiger' survival was truly the goal of the
short lived appearance of the TACP network on the world wide
web, it soon became apparent that Pandolfi was often associated
with the big cats. TIGER -- Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate
and Review -- an official USAF DIA collaboration, includes
several former and present associates of Pandolfi from his days
at CIA.
Pandolfi was also cited on line in a MITRE document, as the CIA
liason to the National Intelligence Council. The subject of
MITRE document involved passive radar, an indirect means of
detecting and identifying flying objects.
The largest volume of information on Dr. Pandolfi's more exotic
interests can be found in countless emails, often copied and
forwarded over Internet distribution lists. On occasion Dr.
Pandolfi makes a brief personal appearance to comment about the
characters behind the varied discussions on the theoretical and
philosophical aspects of potential exotic technologies.
Unlike Valerie Plame's cover as a covert agent of the
CIA, Pandolfi apparently prefers to play his role in the spy
games by remaining hidden
in plain sight.
Citizen Dan Smith remains Dr. Pandolfi's most visible outlet to
express his penchant for the strange and unusual. Mr. Smith
tells us his father was Dan Throop Smith, a Harvard economist,
and one time tax adviser to the Treasury Department under the
Eisenhower Administration. Smith often muses over a Washington
Post story about his brother-in-law, Charles Leighton, and a
fiasco involving cuff-links from President George Herbert Walker
Bush, the one time Director of Central Intelligence. In his
pre-presidential days as the DCI, Bush had been briefed about
the early efforts of STAR GATE, a generic program name for
psychic research and operations involving the intelligence
community.
Mr. Smith also questioned Pandolfi's interests. In the early
days of his association with the good doctor from CIA, Smith
says he consulted with Chris Straub, then ranking member for the
Senate Intelligence Committee. The appearance of Pandolfi at one
1995 meeting likely set the stage for the actions of the Senate
Intelligence Committee a few years later, when CIA killed
Pandolfi's National Intelligence Estimate warning of the danger
of information transfer between Hughes and China.
Smith confirmed to Starstream Research that he had reported his
relationship with Pandolfi to the FBI on two occasions. The
second time around, he met with a female agent outside of the
offices of the Baltimore FBI, to report that Pandolfi had prior
knowledge of the events of September 11th, 2001.
Smith also claims to have been indirectly responsible for a
previous investigation of Pandolfi, in which Pandolfi was
cleared of any wrong doing. According to Smith, the
investigation lasted six months at a cost to taxpayers of a
hundred-thousand dollars.
Starstream Research had also been in contact with the
Minneapolis office of the FBI about our contacts with parties
active in the intelligence community. A Special Agent from the
Joint Counterterrorism Task Force responded, "Please call me if
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. "
One particular breach of confidentiality stands out because the
original source is claimed to have been Pandolfi himself. This
involves information 'requested in an official capacity' that
appears to have been deliberately leaked to Dan Smith, and
passed to other associates.
All of this merely sets the stage for a new act, one that
intersects the world of strange and unusual, and the mundane
problems faced by doing
business in the spy trade.
"I will cut and run the first instant I get a whiff that some
list ... or whomever gets interested in me."
Copyright (c) 2007 Gary S. Bekkum and
Starstream Research.
All rights reserved.
