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From: Mark Hall <capn_black@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:58:33 +0100
Fwd Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:39:29 -0400
Subject: News Release From Nick Redfern, 16 MAY 1999.


I have been asked by Nick Redfern, to issue the following press
release from himself:-


NEWS RELEASE FROM NICK REDFERN, 16 MAY 1999.
UFOS, THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT AND THE JOINT INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE - A BREAKTHROUGH.

Has the British Government ever employed the use of the Official
Secrets Act to silence those implicated in the UFO subject? To
those armchair researchers who proclaim that such an idea is
absurd, I say: 'Think again.'

In my first book, A Covert Agenda, I presented clear evidence
via officially-released documents now available at the Public
Record Office at Kew, that in both 1953 and 1956 orders were
circulated throughout the RAF warning personnel not to talk
about the UFO issue outside of official channels; however, the
records which had been declassified at the time I wrote the book
did not directly reference the OSA or its potential use from a
ufological perspective. Nevertheless, I was also able to present
the testimony of a number of individuals (some with media ties)
who asserted that the OSA had been used to keep the truth
surrounding UFOs under wraps.

Via a file that I secured only days ago from the PRO, however, I
am now able to prove conclusively that UFOs and the Official
Secrets Act go hand in hand. Exactly why the Government has
chosen to release this file is a mystery in itself, given that
it sharply contradicts past assertions.

The file in question (titled 'UFO Policy') covers the period
1958 to 1963 and revolves around UFO investigations undertaken
by various Air Ministry departments during that time frame.
Contained within the file is a 6-page document dating from
December 1960 and circulated at 'Secret' level throughout the
Royal Air Force. Like earlier papers, it details the procedures
to be followed in the event that military radar operators, RAF
pilots, civil pilots or members of the public should report a
UFO.

Interestingly, however, the paper in question contains two eye-
opening revelations. First, it states that in situations where
UFOs were tracked on radar, any military aircraft in the
vicinity were to be diverted from their normal flight to
'investigate the phenomena'. Second, and far more significant,
is the Air Ministry's overwhelming desire to prevent the media
and the public learning about such intrusions, trackings and
interceptions. I quote from the paper in question:

'The Press are never to be given information about unusual radar
sightings. Unauthorised disclosures of this type will be viewed
as offences under the Official Secrets Act.

Although brief in nature, this document (which remained in use
until the formation of the MoD on 1 April 1964 - how
appropriate) makes it abundantly clear that the UFO issue was
indeed covered by the OSA.

On another - but equally important - matter, the file in
question also makes a very brief reference to a pre-1959 study
of the UFO mystery carried out by none other than the British
Government's Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC)! Certainly, it
has long been recognised that at various times since the late
1940s investigations into UFO encounters have been undertaken by
the Royal Air Force, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of
Defence. However, the revelation that the JIC also carried out
an investigation more than 40 years ago is of great
significance. Why so?

First, the membership of the JIC includes not just elite
personnel from the MoD, the Treasury and the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, but also the heads of MI5, MI6 and the
Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham - GCHQ!

Second, the fact that (to my knowledge) no rumours have ever
circulated to the effect that the JIC undertook its own UFO
investigation programme in the late 1940s or 1950s, is an
indication of the level of secrecy that surrounded the project.

The files at the Public Record Office concerning the JIC make no
reference to a 1940s/50s UFO investigation; however, I am now
actively looking to resolve this issue via several methods and
hope ultimately to reveal further findings at a later date. At
this stage, the extent to which any of this may have a bearing
on the allegations of direct UFO studies undertaken by GCHQ, MI5
and MI6 both decades ago and in the present day, can only be
guessed at.

NOTE: Permission is granted to reproduce the above in journals,
magazines, newsletters, internet sites, books etc.



Mark Hall (United Kingdom)