Brief
Committee for State Security (KGB)
The claims the writer was given for Committee for State Security (KGB), in the order they were given.
1
For several decades, the Russians conducted excavations at the Merivälja site, involving military scientists, and the Committee for State Security (KGB) was involved.
“for several decades, the Russians were doing excavations, and there were military scientists, the KGB was involved.”
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2
Igor Volker is a ufologist who did extensive work researching the Merivälja object and the Soviet investigation reports.
“Igor Volker, who's the ufologist who did a lot of work on Merivälja, and also the Soviet papers, the reports of the Soviet investigation team that did this work with the KGB”
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3
One of Richard C. Hoagland's associates was pulled into an empty room at the National Academy of Sciences in Moscow by the KGB (Committee for State Security) and told to stop looking for Soviet space imagery.
“one of his folks was actually pulled out of a long hallway and into an empty room at the National Academy of Sciences, in Moscow by the KGB—and told flatly to “stop looking!””
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4
Unknown to Bruce DePalma, because of Cold War secrecy controls imposed by the Committee for State Security (KGB), the same phenomenon he was observing was being simultaneously observed by Russian researchers, who termed it "a torsion field".
“Ironically, totally unknown to DePalma—because of the Cold War and the KGB’s strict secrecy controls—what he was observing was also being simultaneously observed by his Russian counterparts, and termed “a torsion field”—based on the same *rotational* interactions.”
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5
For around 10 years, Soviet scientists, researchers, KGB agents and military personnel investigated the Merivalja object.
“For around 10 years, Soviet scientists, researchers, KGB spies and military investigated the so-called Merivälja object.”
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6
The Russian secret police agency, the Committee for State Security (KGB), got involved in investigating the object under the house at Merivalja.
“the Russian secret police, the spy agency, the KGB, no less, it got involved in this whole investigation.”
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7
The Committee for State Security (KGB) stamped its files on the Merivalja object 'sovacheno sekretno', meaning completely, totally secret.
“So that was the KGB stamp that they put all over this file. ... Sovacheno sekretno means completely, totally secret.”
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8
Mart Sander recently found an interview in which it was claimed for the first time that the Committee for State Security (KGB) suspected the structure beneath the Merivalja house housed two dead occupants.
“even as late as a couple of days ago, I found another interview online, which was the first time I actually read that the KGB suspected that the structure really housed two dead occupants”
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9
Mart Sander has not been able to corroborate the claim that the Committee for State Security (KGB) suspected the Merivalja object housed two dead occupants, but intends to look into it.
“I have not been able to corroborate this in any way, but I shall be looking into it.”
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10
Alexander Deyev may have been employed by the Committee for State Security (KGB) as one of the best known psychics used by the KGB in the Soviet Union.
“he's always been like this on this cutting edge, perhaps employed by the KGB, perhaps as one of the best known psychics, let's call it that way, in the Soviet Union, who were used by the KGB.”
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11
Alexander Deyev was forced to leave Merivalja when the political situation changed and the Committee for State Security (KGB) and Soviet defence systems were no longer welcome in Estonia.
“a year after Deyev was forced to leave because that's when the political situations started to change and the KGB and Soviet defense systems were no longer welcome in Estonia”
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12
Illustrations published in Estonian media, sourced from Committee for State Security (KGB) files, show a gigantic object underneath the Merivalja garden.
“there are illustrations that have been published in the media in Estonia from the KGB files that show a gigantic object underneath this garden”
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13
The Committee for State Security (KGB) spent years investigating the Merivalja object and spent an enormous amount of money on it.
“It spent years investigating this. It spent an enormous amount of money.”
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14
Mart Sander states that the money the Committee for State Security (KGB) spent researching the Merivalja object must have been huge, given the KGB's bottomless resources.
“KGB's pockets were bottomless, and the money spent on this research must have been huge”
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15
The Soviets probably spent hundreds of thousands of rubles, if not millions, digging around the Merivalja house.
“They probably spent hundreds of thousands of rubles, if not millions.”
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16
Vormsi Enn and Igor Volker were not really interested in the KGB's (Committee for State Security) activities.
“I think these gentlemen who are by now, sadly, all passed on, both Vormsi and Mr. Volker, they were not really interested in the KGB and their doings.”
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17
Alexander Deyev, a KGB (Committee for State Security) figure, promoted the Merivalja object as anomalous.
“the gentleman from the KGB who was promoting this as being an anomalous object, Alexander Deyev,”
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18
Mart Sander believes the KGB (Committee for State Security) would not have been so dedicated to obtaining the Merivalja property unless they were fairly certain something of great value was within reach, given that the Soviet Union spanned one-sixth of the world's land and had no reason to focus on such a small provincial spot otherwise.
“KGB would not have been so dedicated to get its hands on the property had it been just a suspicion of there might be something. I mean, Soviet Union was such a large territory uh one-sixth of the world why should they be concentrated on this very very little provincial spot unless they were pretty sure that a priceless priceless thing is is almost at the reach of their fingers”
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