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From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@get2net.dk>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:25:42
Fwd Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:23:25 -0400
Subject: Timothy Cooper's MJ-12 REPORT


June 14, 1999, Jeroen Wierda, director of Picard UFO Research
International (PUFORI), made this announcement on his website:

"Today I added 1 article/report that Timothy Cooper wrote for
PUFORI on the *articles/Mj-12 section. More will be added to
this article soon, and it may be transferred to the Reports
section as well. I also updated an article by Robert Collins in
the Articles/General section (item #1)."

The article comments on the new series of MJ-12 documents, which
were received by Timothy Cooper and later released by Stan
Friedman, the Woods and Joe Firmage. The URL to the article is

http://www.pufori.org/articles/mj12_cooper_mj12_report.htm

but you should visit PUFORI's main MJ-12 site, too, at

http://www.pufori.org/non_frames/mj12_nf.htm

There's also a 'frames' version.

Stig

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The MJ-12 Report


by Timothy Cooper


Posted with Author's Permission

Index

•Introduction •The UFO threat and the National Security Act of
1947 •UFO sightings in the United States •Unidentified
Satellite Story •The CIA and Scientific Intelligence


"Space is ... where wars will be fought." --Barry Goldwater


INTRODUCTION


The controversy within the United States UFO community and to
some degree, the United States government itself, is whether in
the late 1940's a super-secret extraterrestrial technology
intelligence collection and research and development program was
created by a special classified executive order and whether such
an entity exists today. One could say that the military
attempted communications with extraterrestrials as early as 1924
with the Army's Signal Corps radio experiment documented in the
archives of the National Security Agency when William F.
Friedman, father of American cryptology, first reviewed graphs
and images taken from a crude television recording device of
what has been reported as coded transmissions and images from
the planet Mars.

Interest in extraterrestrial existence surfaced again when the
sensational story of flying saucers and crash recoveries made
headline news all around the world in July 1947. One year
earlier, U.S. military intelligence had investigated the strange
"ghost rocket" scare in Europe and kept their findings
classified. In 1987, documents alleging crashed alien
spacecraft and dead bodies captured the imaginations and
consternation of UFO researchers and the federal government. For
three years the controversy raged between advocates and
debunkers alike. The center of the debate was the disclosure of
a star chamber of military icons and distinguished scientists
known as Majestic or MJ-12 who were assembled and tasked by
President Harry S. Truman with providing answers for the UFO
phenomenon that defied rational scientific explanation. Then in
1994 and again in 1998, new documents surfaced onto the world
scene that for some, was conclusive proof that MJ-12 did exist
and by extension, extraterrestrial visitation.

In the absence of verifiable physical evidence of crashed
extraterrestrial spacecraft and dead bodies from another world,
the actions of the United States Air Force and the CIA, and the
NSA, and virtually every agency of the defense establishment who
have released some UFO intelligence reports to the public, the
real nature of UFO technology and their builders suggests that
they are withholding critical information from the world.
Excluding scanty circumstantial evidence in the form of
artifacts and non-terrestrial manufacturing processes, the story
told in the Majestic documents and the revelations of shadowy
"insiders" and video and still pictures are our only source of
information. Past efforts of noted researchers, journalists, and
researchers when tracking down paper trails have largely
produced very little in verifiable information that can be used
in a court case against the United States intelligence
community. Even law suits have been quashed in the efforts of
one lawyer charging that the United States is under attack from
the skies. Past efforts to attract the attention of the United
Nations Security Council have failed to address the issue.

If the Majestic program existed in the time frame referenced in
the new documents which this author came into possession of and
if the acronym MAJIC was a code word for a multi-agency
technology exploitation and replicating program, then the
secrecy and security allegedly associated with it may explain
the pains that the military and the private sector of industry
have taken to conceal one of the greatest and most profound
discovery since the invention of the wheel.

The report that follows reflects what has been learned by the
author over the last six months and by the valiant efforts of
others especially Dr. Robert M. Wood and Ryan S. Wood who
undertook the challenge of finding verifiable confirmation of
the information you are about to read. Though much work still
lies ahead before it can be stated categorically that MJ-12 did
exist, the data points presented in this first of several
reports demonstrate the reliability and truthfulness of the
Majestic documents as either professionally done
disinformation--or calculated dissemination by "insiders"
without official sanction from the agencies responsible for UFO
and extraterrestrial intelligence collection.


THE UFO THREAT AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947


In order to unravel the complexities attached to the Majestic
documents and the whole issue of government secrecy regarding
the modern UFO phenomenon, it is necessary to first examine the
politics for the passage of the National Security Act of 1947
for in this document lay the beginnings of a secret government
that has existed for over 50 years. It might also explain the
basis for classified national security projects believed by
some to be linked with technological advances associated with
UFO studies conducted in classified laboratories and test
installations in the United States, Australia, and the United
Kingdom.

The catalyst that influenced President Truman and the Congress
to abrogate the Constitution with this illegal instrument has
always been somewhat of a mystery. The National Security Act of
1947 and the more recent Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1974 have allowed the U.S. intelligence community to engage
in deception, cover-ups, gross violations of civil and
constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and international law.

After World War II, fearing a intelligence monopoly by the
military the Truman Administration sought to develop and perfect
a reliable set of executive institutions to manage national
security policy in light of the Pearl Harbor disaster. The
National Security Act of July 26, 1947, created the National
Security Council under chairmanship of the President, with the
Secretaries of State and Defense as its key members, to
coordinate foreign policy and defense policy, and to reconcile
diplomatic and military commitments and requirements. This
landmark piece of legislation provided for a revamping of the
office of the Secretary of War and reconstituted it into several
new institutions such as the Secretary of defense, a National
Military Establishment, Central Intelligence Agency, and
National Security Resources Board. Bearing in mind that this
"revamping" took place in peacetime not war, the diplomatic and
military leadership were quick to view that the NSC had been
created to coordinate political and military questions (which
would include the perceived UFO threat) quickly gave way to the
understanding that the NSC existed to serve the President
alone. This new situation allowed the NSC to assume the role of
fostering cooperation among department heads and provided the
means of successive Presidents the use of the Council as a means
of controlling competing departments.

Shortly after Operation CROSSROAD the U.S. military's first
atmospheric atomic bomb experiments at the Pacific proving
ground at Bikini were conducted in July 1946, Europe began
experiencing numerous UFO sightings. U.S. military intelligence
investigated and forwarded dispatches to the War Department.
Military Attaché's in State Department legations in Sweden,
Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, Austria, Yugoslavia, Turkey,
and North Africa dispatched over 800 sighting reports to the
office of the Secretary of State. Scientists and air
intelligence experts feared that the Soviet captured V-2 rockets
and the Germans who designed the most advanced ballistic missile
had somehow increased its effective range and were testing them
over the skies of Europe in retaliation for the atomic bomb
tests. Ignorance of Soviet atomic weapons development was
another reason for worry by U.S. intelligence. By the end of
July the State Department classified UFO sightings TOP SECRET
and it can be assumed that the military did likewise.

Lack of reliable intelligence of Soviet intentions along the
occupied borders of Allied controlled Eastern Europe, British
and American defense establishments began considering
restructuring as a way to face this new menace. According to CIA
historian Arthur B. Darling, "American press carried dispatches
from London, dated October 4, 1946, announcing that British
Army, Navy, and Air Command had been brought under a Minister
of Defense." This move by the British Government may have been
spurred on by a report issued by the Swedish Defense Staff in
that same month that stated that they had been unable after a
four-month investigation to discover the "objects" and they
"were not the V-type bombs used by the Germans." The May 29
accidental launching by the U.S. Army of an errant V-2 missile
from White Sands, New Mexico, nearly killed many Mexican
citizens near the town of Juarez set off an immediate
investigation from the State Department and the Chief of Staff
of the Army which may have given rise to the "ghost rocket"
scare over Europe that summer.

Wishing to avoid another sneak attack, President Truman
approved a joint recommendation sighed by Secretaries Patterson
and Forestal on January 16, 1947, which supported legislation
establishing a council of national defense, a national security
resources board, and a central intelligence agency.

As with the British Minister of Defense, Truman proposed a
similar plan to restructure the defenses of the United States.
As Darling noted in his historical work The Central Intelligence
Agency (declassified in 1989) that a "drafting committee"
composed of Charles F. Murphy, Administrative Assistant to the
President, General Lauris Norstad of the Army, and Admiral
Forrest Sherman of the Navy, wrote the details of the act for
the National Defense Establishment and the National Security
Council. The National Intelligence Authority (brainchild of
General William Donovan, Director of the Office of Strategic
Services) whose members included the Secretaries of State, Army,
and the Navy with the Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief
General Eisenhower constituted the National Intelligence
Authority (NIA) came into being after the end of World War II.
The National Intelligence Authority and the Joint Intelligence
Committee composed of the intelligence chiefs of the military
functioned as an illegal spy agency of the President. It was
first exposed in a story by the Chicago Tribune and the
Washington Times Herald but was overshadowed by the Yalta
Conference and the story quickly died.

The NIA and JIC continued their illegal intelligence activities
and in June 1946, President Truman appointed General Hoyt
Vandenberg to head up a cover organization for the NIA and JIC
called the Central Intelligence Group (some believe it was
really the Counter Intelligence Group for the NIA and JIC) and
one of its tasks was to collect as much intelligence on Soviet
offensive capabilities and possibly determine if the UFO's
sighted over Europe were part of the Soviet ballistic missile
buildup (there are indications from other sources that military
intelligence may have had the answers much earlier). Vandenberg
pressed hard for the White House bill on intelligence in the
Senate. On February 26, 1947, President Truman sent the bill for
the National defense establishment to Congress. Appearing
before the Senate's Committee on the Armed Services and the
Committee of the House of Representatives on Expenditures in the
Executive Departments were Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal,
Generals Eisenhower and Spaatz, Admirals Nimitz and King, Dr.
Vannevar Bush and General Donovan. During the hearings,
representatives of the CIG assured Senators that the proposed
Central Intelligence Agency would have no law enforcement
powers, no subpoena powers, and no domestic intelligence
activities.


UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES


Alarm bells began to sound off and a sense of foreboding
quickly took hold among the members of the NIA and JIC when
reports from official intelligence channels that the same
"rocket" phenomena had surfaced over the United States and its
territories beginning in the spring of 1947. The Central
Planning Staff of the CIG according to Darling was "soon loaded
with orders for investigation and report of a variety of
subjects that were intricate and sweeping." Admiral Sidney
Sours, former Director of the CIG instructed the Central
Planning Staff "to make abroad survey of all clandestine
collection of foreign intelligence by agencies in the
Government" by making a survey "of the coverage of the foreign
language press in the United States." No doubt U.S. intelligence
was concerned over the possibility that Soviet espionage agents
were sending coded reports back to Moscow of this situation and
this was accomplished through the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence
Service. Any information of this type was included in the
Strategic Intelligence Digest which in turn was included in the
Strategic Intelligence Estimate prepared for the President.

Unknown to U.S. intelligence, the Soviet espionage project
ENORMOUS has successfully stolen the blueprints for America's
atomic bomb program right out of Los Alamos through "moles"
within the OSS and the State Department. What was more critical
was the design for the FAT MAN implosion device that according
to an alleged TOP SECRET/MAJIC document known as the WHITE HOT
ASSESSMENT (released to the public in late 1998 by Dr. Robert
M. Wood and Ryan S. Wood) the design for the plutonium implosion
device was based on technical studies taken from a crashed space
object recovered by the Army in 1941 that according to the
document allowed the Army to "exploit" the secrets of the atom
to "extend our technology beyond the threshold that we have
achieved." That "threshold" was the MANHATTAN Project.

All the files that once was under the personal control of the
MANHATTAN Project director General Leslie R. Groves have not
been declassified and possibly the real story behind FAT MAN may
ultimately resolve that question. It may not be coincidence that
work on the shell design for FAT MAN began in the summer of 1942
before Los Alamos scientists could imagine how big the bomb
would be. Nuclear physicists believed that separating isotopes
was impossible. This did not stop the Army from producing
drawings for the implosion and shot gun bombs and in June 1942
with the appointment of Colonel Groves (retired a three star
general in 1948) of the Army Corps of Engineers by General
Brehon Somervell to head the MANHATTAN project. Only six Army
personnel were permitted to study the spherical design of the
nuclear power plant recovered in 1941. Two were of general rank
and the other four were graduate students of lesser rank. Also
unknown to the Los Alamos scientists was the fact that the shell
for the implosion device was specifically designed to fit in the
bomb bay of the B-29 Superfortress under development by the
Boeing Aircraft Company.

On May 9, 1947, the Planning Committee authorized the CIG to
establish the Intelligence Advisory Board whose members included
Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Research and Development Board,
Admiral John E. Gingrich of the Atomic Energy Commission,
Admiral Thomas Inglis of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and
General Stephen Chamberlin of Army Intelligence, all involved in
collection of technical intelligence and scientific data
produced by the CIG for UFO's and Soviet military capabilities.
Admiral Souers, during his term as Director, Central
Intelligence Group, recommended that the Atomic Energy
Commission should have permanent membership in the Intelligence
Advisory Board and would have "direct access" to other
intelligence agencies to secure scientific and technological
guidance in the event that items of interest regarding
applications of nuclear energy for either new weapons
development or for aircraft and missile propulsion should fall
into U.S. hands.

According to unconfirmed sources there was a recovery of a
"flying disc bomb" near Los Alamos, New Mexico, on March 25,
1947, and of another "disc-like object" on May 28 near the White
Sands Proving Ground. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
at Sandia Base reportedly had possession and this was not
reported to David Lillienthal, Chairman of the AEC. General
Groves had kept the President and the AEC in the dark regarding
the status of the nation's nuclear arsenal. On April 3, 1947,
AEC Commissioner David Lillienthal informed President Truman
that the United States had "no stockpile...not a single operable
atomic bomb." Truman was also told that a nuclear defense
against UFO's or a Soviet invasion of Europe "did not exist" to
which Truman replied, "What [do] we propose to do about it?"
This discovery was so secret that it was never committed to
paper.

By June the Army Air Force's Air Defense Command at Mitchell
Field, New York, had compiled numerous UFO reports that were
forwarded to the Air Intelligence Requirements Branch,
Headquarters, Air Force Intelligence at the request of Brigadier
General George Schulgen, head of the Requirements Branch. In
Occupied Germany General Arthur G. Trudeau, head of the civil
defense presented his assessment of the Soviet attack strategy
to General Clay of the High Command. The 509th Composite
Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force located at Roswell
AAF, New Mexico, has less than twenty B-29's and crews that knew
how to handle and deliver atomic weapons and this fact caused a
heightened state of panic in Washington. Talk of Word War III
was privately being discussed among military leaders and the
Secretaries of the Army, Navy and, Army Air Force.

Fearing the worst, President Truman signed the instrument
creating the National Security Council called Public Law 80-253
on July 26, 1947, as a general reorganization of the U.S.
national security apparatus and thereby reconstructing the
State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC the forerunner of
the NSC) which had been established in 1944. Acting on the
advice of White House Counsel Clark Clifford who was dismayed
by the disorder among the intelligence agencies, Truman hoped by
establishing the NSC, institutional stability to national
security would quickly come about.

The outcome of Public law 80-253 was the National Security Act
of 1947 which in affect, established the sweeping power of the
intelligence community to lie and deceive not only the Congress,
but the American people regarding the UFO invasion issue. The
act did not resolve the bickering and in-fighting that persisted
among defense intelligence and hampered any real progress in
addressing a growing suspicion that something was going on in
the skies over the United States.


UNIDENTIFIED SATELLITE STUDY


As the Army Air Force's "rocket" investigations began to paint
a clearer picture of a real invasion over Europe, a crash study
by the Army Air Force's RAND Project (REsearch ANd Development)
was ordered by General Curtiss LeMay, Director of the Office of
Research and Development, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, in April
1946. The study published as the May 2, 1946 Preliminary Design
for an Experimental World Circling Spaceship was a 324-page
analysis that concluded that it was possible for a spacecraft
to remain in earth orbit and would be undetectable from
then-existing radar systems. As early as 1945 the Army Air Force
Scientific Advisory Group reported to General Arnold, Chief of
the Air Staff, that a foreign power could position long-range
rockets in space and that they could be launched from orbiting
satellites.

James Lipp, who at that time was head of RAND's missile
division produced a working paper in February 1947 in which,
among other things, thought it feasible that such a satellite
equipped with "television" and long-range optics could "be
placed upon an oblique or north-south orbit so as to cover the
entire surface of the earth." With no conclusive proof that the
Soviets had made a breakthrough in rocket technology developed
by the Germans and lacking reliable intelligence of Soviet
intentions and capabilities, Army Air Force intelligence went on
the assumption that the UFO sightings in Europe and reports
coming in from reliable observers in the United States in May of
that year, that satellites of unknown origin were as the
alleged Oppenheimer-Einstein draft assessment states "are
defacto." This is the earliest known reference to satellites
prior to the Russian Sputnik satellite placed into orbit ten
years later.

After the "flying saucer" invasion from June-August 1947 the
Air Materiel Command issued the now famous September 23, 1947,
Opinion letter written by General Nathan F. Twining to
Headquarters, Army Air Force, in which Twining emphasized that
the unidentified objects were "real" aircraft and that a
classified project to investigate, collect, and disseminate all
technical data was needed. Just two days later, the Air Staff
instructed the Air Materiel Command to re-evaluate the RAND
satellite studies. On December 13, 1948, James Lipp submitted a
paper titled Possible Places of Origin to General Donald Putt,
Director of Research and Development requested in February. RAND
was tasked with producing requirements for component and
techniques for a reconnaissance satellite based on "present
knowledge" acquired through physical examination of crash
remains recovered in the New Mexican desert.

Lipp had studied the possibility that since the "flying
objects" sighted over the United States beginning in the Spring
of 1947 after five atomic weapons were detonated could have been
the result of an overhead, low altitude reconnaissance activity
by foreign power. Lipp presented two possibilities: that the
"spaceships" would arrive in a "group" for a "full-dress
contact"; and that "numerous small craft might descend from a
mother ship" or a orbiting "satellite" launching "rockets".
Lipp also speculated that vertically descending "rockets" would
appear as " a luminous disk" to a ground observer. He also
observed from reports provided to him by the ATIC that the
distribution of reports was "peculiar" in that it if an invasion
was in progress, the sightings would be global in nature. Since
the sightings were focused largely on the United States
(particularly in New Mexico), the localization of the sightings,
to his reasoning, suggested that some foreign power may have, in
his words, "feeling out" U.S. defenses.


THE CIA AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE


During the "rocket" scare of 1946 Admiral Sidney Souers as
Director of the CIG requested the services of Dr. H.P. Robertson
to coordinate scientific intelligence with the Office of
Scientific Research and Development after the Bikini atomic bomb
tests were completed. On August 1, 1946, the newly formed Atomic
Energy Commission took control of the Manhattan Engineer
District form the War Department in which intelligence
activities of foreign atomic research would come under the
jurisdiction of the CIG and later the CIA. Robertson became
scientific consultant to the CIA on problems associated in the
field of scientific intelligence.

On April 29, 1947, CIA Director Hillenkoetter received
estimates from a subcommittee created by General Vandenberg
before he left the CIG called the Special Studies and Evaluation
(SSE). SSE had prepared a plan to deal with the possible
surveillance of U.S. atomic weapons research installations by
"foreign" satellite objects and how to deal with the growing
anxiety that prevailed on the U.S. defense intelligence
agencies that Spring. On September 30, 1947, SSE concluded that
if war, or the threat of war was determined by the President,
the Director of Psychological Warfare should control and direct
an "authoritative" coordination. The SSE was operated by
military intelligence and that by an "executive action" the
President could establish the existence of a national emergency
and "take steps to maintain national security" apart from the
authority of Congress.

On September 24, 1947, prior to the first meeting of the NSC,
CIA Director Hillenkoetter submitted a classified memorandum to
Admiral Souers, Executive Secretary of the NSC Staff urging the
NSC to take "immediate steps" to "centralize" an organization
which would conduct "vitally needed psychological operations".
This organization (possibly Majestic Twelve) would have
"interdepartmental representation" at the "policy-forming
level" under the "guidance" of the Council. Though
Hillenkoetter's memo did not elaborate upon the "functions" of
the CIA's participation in the "centralized organization" he
later confided with his Assistant Director for Special
Operations, Colonel Galloway, that he was personally opposed to
involving the CIA in psychological warfare.

It would seem that the "centralized" organization composed of
scientific intelligence and the propaganda machinery of the U.S.
came together in the common goal of appraising the threat of war
posed by the crisis of the "flying saucer" invasion and keeping
the Soviets off balance as to what was occurring. It would
appear that the alleged September 24, 1947 Truman memorandum to
Secretary of Defense Forrestal authorizing the CIA to commence
Operation Majestic Twelve may have relevance here in light of
the above. It may also shed light on the alleged Special
Operations Manual prepared for Majestic-12 teams that suggests
that not only was collecting extraterrestrial technology of
vital concern but maintaining security seems to be the
overriding issue all of which will be discussed in Part Two.


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