Brief
Harry S. Truman
The claims the writer was given for Harry S. Truman, in the order they were given.
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Harry S. Truman's executive order authorising Project Paperclip specified that no ardent Nazis or war criminals would be allowed into the United States under the programme.
“President Truman's executive order authorizing the program was very specific: no "ardent Nazis" or war criminals would be allowed into the U.S. under Paperclip.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:100402-100552 administrative
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Vannevar Bush originally played a key role in bringing Wernher von Braun and other ardent Nazis to the United States illegally, in direct violation of President Truman's executive orders.
“Bush originally played a key role in bringing Von Braun and other "ardent Nazis" to the U.S. illegally, in direct violation of President Truman's executive orders.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:67454-67610 hearsay second hand
3
Operation Majestic-12 was a supposed secret cabal of scientists, military and intelligence officials and government formed in 1947 by President Harry Truman to facilitate the recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft.
“Operation Majestic-12 was a supposed secret cabal of scientists, military and intelligence officials and government formed in 1947 by President Harry Truman to facilitate the recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft.”
In Plain Sight 2023-11-17 ch14:15460-15698 administrative
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Whitley Strieber told Strom Thurmond in a letter that United States Army Brigadier General Arthur Exon told him personally in 1989 that there was a 'completely unequivocal cover-up' of a retrieved alien craft at Roswell, New Mexico that 'went from Truman on down'.
“Strieber told the Senator in his letter that US Army Brigadier General Arthur Exon had told him personally in 1989 that there was a 'completely unequivocal cover-up' of a retrieved alien craft at Roswell and 'it went from [President Harry] Truman on down'.”
In Plain Sight 2023-11-17 ch25:22926-23176 hearsay third hand
5
MJ-12 is described as a supposed secret cabal of scientists, military and intelligence officials and government formed in 1947 by President Truman to facilitate the recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft.
“He asked about their crashed UFO program and MJ-12 (the supposed secret cabal of scientists, military and intelligence officials, and government formed in 1947 by President Truman to facilitate the recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft)”
In Plain Sight 2023-11-17 ch26:17586-17820 administrative
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The 1952 Washington DC UFO flap was front-page news across the world, and President Harry Truman demanded answers.
“The story was front-page news across the planet and even President Truman was demanding answers”
In Plain Sight 2023-11-17 ch8:17332-17420 administrative
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In 1952-07, multiple Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) resembling lights penetrated downtown Washington, DC and buzzed the White House and the capital city over two consecutive weekends while Harry Truman was president.
“July 1952: Harry S. Truman was president. Multiple UAP resembling lights penetrated downtown DC and buzzed the White House and the capital city over two consecutive weekends.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch12:25771-25938 observation
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Luis Elizondo believes the following US presidents were briefed in some way on UAP: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Donald Trump.
“As far as I know, the following US presidents were briefed in some way: Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Trump.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch31:16189-16330 opinion first hand
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Whitley Strieber considers that every US presidential administration from Harry Truman in 1947 to the present has kept the secret of nonhuman visitors.
“From Truman in 1947 until the present, all U.S. presidential administrations have kept the secret”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch10:5589-5680 opinion first hand
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General Arthur Exon told Whitley Strieber, after Strieber published Communion in 1987, that everybody from Harry Truman on down knew within twenty-four hours of finding it that what had been found was not of this world.
“General Exon told me after I published Communion in 1987 that “everybody from Truman on down knew that what we had found was not of this world within twenty-four hours of our finding it.””
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch11:795-978 testimony second hand
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Frank Edwards, in a 1956 lecture, maintained that in 1952 Albert Einstein had delivered an urgent message to then-President Harry Truman warning that Truman's shoot-down policy toward UFOs over Washington, D.C. was unwise.
“Edwards maintained that just four years prior in 1952, Albert Einstein had delivered an urgent message to then-President Harry Truman. Einstein warned that Truman's shoot-down policy of UFOs over DC was unwise.”
Aliens and Albert Einstein - The Secret Document - DEBRIEFED ep. 33 2025-04-11 00:08:40.5-00:08:54.2 hearsay second hand
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According to Frank Edwards's account, Albert Einstein's message to Harry Truman said, "Mr. President, anyone who can cross millions of miles of space will be able to take care of himself after he gets there. Don't start something you can't finish."
“I know what Mr. Einstein told him. He said, Mr. President, Anyone who can cross millions of miles of space will be able to take care of himself after he gets there. Don't start something you can't finish.”
Aliens and Albert Einstein - The Secret Document - DEBRIEFED ep. 33 2025-04-11 00:08:55.3-00:09:08.6 hearsay second hand
13
Chris Ramsey believes The Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies (1947 document) would have been written to Harry Truman.
“So this would have been written to Harry Truman at the time.”
Aliens and Albert Einstein - The Secret Document - DEBRIEFED ep. 33 2025-04-11 00:24:27.0-00:24:30.3 opinion first hand
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Top constitutional lawyers consulted by Ross Coulthart can see no basis under which successive United States presidents could be bound by an executive order signed under Dwight D. Eisenhower or Harry S. Truman into not being briefed on the UFO programme even when they requested it.
“People I've spoken to who are constitutional lawyers, really top constitutional lawyers, tell me that they cannot see any basis under which, for example, successive presidents could be bound into not being able to be briefed, even when they asked for it, like Clinton did, by, say, an executive order that was passed by Eisenhower or Truman.”
The DANGEROUS Truth About UFOs - Ross Coulthart | DEBRIEFED ep. 76 2026-02-20 00:39:44.1-00:40:04.8 opinion second hand
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Ross Coulthart was told by sources that a secret executive order enshrining the legacy UFO retrieval and reverse engineering programme and keeping it secret from Congress was signed probably during the Truman administration, with another during the Eisenhower administration.
“it's not an apocryphal story, I'm told, that there is a secret executive order that was signed probably during the Truman administration. There was one also done during the Eisenhower administration, And that this enshrined the legacy retrieval reverse engineering program and kept it secret from Congress.”
The DANGEROUS Truth About UFOs - Ross Coulthart | DEBRIEFED ep. 76 2026-02-20 00:40:06.7-00:40:26.0 hearsay second hand
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Geoff Cruickshank's most recent analysis compared the handwriting of Harry S. Truman with handwriting attributed to Truman in the Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents and found it clearly identical.
“what he's looked at in his most recent analysis is handwriting of President Truman with handwriting of Truman allegedly in the MJ-12 documents. And it's clearly identical.”
The DANGEROUS Truth About UFOs - Ross Coulthart | DEBRIEFED ep. 76 2026-02-20 01:33:46.0-01:33:57.6 hearsay second hand
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Jonathan Caplan considers the connection between James Forrestal's directive from Harry S. Truman and his speedy meetings with Henry Tizard, Victor Goddard and others a very significant development.
“the connection between Forrestal, who just had this directive from Truman, meeting very speedily with Sir Henry Tizard, Air Marshal Victor Goddard and others, I think is a very significant development.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:15:55.6-00:16:08.2 opinion first hand
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Jonathan Caplan believes Harry S. Truman and his military staff were very concerned about reports that non-human craft had crashed, which presented a new threat to the United States and the world.
“truman was very concerned about this as were his his staff and military staff”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:18:50.5-00:18:54.2 opinion first hand
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Jonathan Caplan finds that the detail of the Majestic 12 documents corroborates contemporary diaries that were not released at the time, including the diaries of Harry S. Truman, James Forrestal, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
“the detail of the documents check out with contemporary diaries, which were not released at the time. The meetings that are referred to in the documents are reflected in the diaries of not just the president, but Forrestal, Eisenhower.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:20:15.5-00:20:30.3 opinion first hand
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According to David Lilienthal's diary, Harry S. Truman referred at the Blair House meeting of 14 July 1949 to a report so unusual that only one copy of it existed, with no access permitted to an associated agreement.
“And then there is reference to a report which Truman is so unusual out of this world that Truman, there's only one copy of it. And there's no access to this agreement.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:25:19.8-00:25:34.3 hearsay second hand
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According to David Lilienthal's diary, Harry S. Truman said the agreement referenced at the Blair House meeting of 14 July 1949 was staying in his safe and nobody was to have access to it.
“And Truman says in Lillian to record it. Well, that agreement is staying in my safe and nobody is having access to it.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:25:34.8-00:25:42.2 hearsay second hand
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Jonathan Caplan considers it likely that the agreement referenced by Harry S. Truman at the Blair House meeting of 14 July 1949 relates to Majestic 12.
“But in the context of the discussion that we're having, it's very likely that it's something to do, I would say, with Majestic 12.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:25:44.6-00:25:52.6 opinion first hand
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One forged typescript document among the Majestic 12 material, headed 'Truman and Congress', purports to be an account of Harry S. Truman being called to give evidence before the United States Congress in 1963 or 1964 about Majestic 12, in which he is embarrassed and gives various answers.
“And one of them is a document, I think, involving or headed Truman and Congress. And it purports to be an account of Truman being called to give evidence at Congress in 1963 or 1964, where he's asked about MJ-12 and he is embarrassed and gives various answers.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:27:38.9-00:28:07.4 administrative first hand
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Jonathan Caplan checked with the Eisenhower Library and confirmed that Harry S. Truman was never in Washington at the time the forged 'Truman and Congress' document claims he testified before the United States Congress.
“Now that clearly didn't happen because I've checked with the Eisenhower Library and he was never in Washington at that time.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:28:08.0-00:28:13.2 administrative second hand
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The newly disclosed page of the Blair House meeting annex discusses Harry S. Truman wanting to share some of the Majestic 12 material with US allies.
“And this is the page which talks about Truman wanting to share some of the Majestic material with his allies.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:31:28.1-00:31:39.4 administrative first hand
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Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower felt that craft arriving in numbers with an unknown agenda might mean an imminent attack was being faced.
“And Truman and Eisenhower felt that the risk of these craft that were coming in numbers with an agenda that wasn't known might mean that we were facing imminent attack.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:32:23.4-00:32:36.2 hearsay second hand
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Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to increase the production of atomic weapons because they felt there might be a war that had to be fought in space, requiring delivery of weapons in or near space.
“And they wanted to increase the production of atomic weapons because they felt there might be a war that had to be fought in space. and they would have to deliver these weapons in or near space.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:32:37.5-00:32:52.1 hearsay second hand
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Jonathan Caplan used Harry S. Truman's and Dwight D. Eisenhower's diaries to help corroborate the provenance of the newly found Majestic 12 documents.
“I understand, for example, Truman and Eisenhower's diaries had useful information to help you corroborate.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:41:37.1-00:41:43.0 administrative first hand
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The Blair House meeting of 14 July 1949 is recorded in Harry S. Truman's, Dwight D. Eisenhower's and David Lilienthal's diaries.
“So the meeting itself is recorded in those diaries. It's an off the record meeting. It's recorded, as I said, also in David Lilienthal's diaries.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:41:46.4-00:41:56.6 administrative first hand
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Jonathan Caplan does not believe a forger of the Majestic 12 documents released in the 1980s would have had access to Harry S. Truman's and Dwight D. Eisenhower's diaries, because those diaries were only released in later years and had been kept in secure conditions.
“I don't believe so because these diaries have only been released in succeeding years and were not available. I'm sure somebody possibly in the Central Intelligence Agency might have been able to get special access to them, but they have not been available to the public and have been kept in pretty secure conditions.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 00:42:22.1-00:42:41.5 opinion first hand
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A week after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Harry S. Truman wrote an article in the Washington Post that was very critical of the Central Intelligence Agency, saying it was not the organisation he had set up or believed it was going to be, and that it had got completely out of hand.
“a week after Kennedy's assassination, you get a very interesting article written by President Truman to the Washington Post... being very critical of the CIA and saying, look, this is not the organization that I set up or what we believed it was going to be. And it's got completely out of hand.”
Watergate, the JFK assassination and a UFO secret at the center of it all | Reality Check 2026-06-18 01:06:47.4-01:07:21.1 administrative second hand
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In 1948, President Harry Truman is alleged to have established classified presidential executive orders, referred to by Eric Davis as Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs), that relegated custody of recovered disks to Atomic Energy Commission National Lab Control to be studied under Vannevar Bush's Joint Research and Development Board and its successor, the Research and Development Board.
“there are serious credible allegations that within the late 40s, 1948, to be specific, President Harry Truman established classified presidential executive orders, also referred to by your colleague, Dr. Eric Davis, as PEADS, presidential emergency action documents, that relegated custody of recovered disks to Atomic Energy Commission National Lab Control to be studied under Vannevar Bush, his soon to be Joint Research and Development Board and then Research and Development Board”
Episode 73: Science vs. Secrecy 2026-06-30 00:56:53.3-00:57:19.8 hearsay
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UAP Gerb considers the allegation that President Harry Truman established classified 1948 presidential executive orders relegating recovered disks to Atomic Energy Commission National Lab Control factually correct.
“And I do think that is factually correct.”
Episode 73: Science vs. Secrecy 2026-06-30 00:57:20.0-00:57:22.3 opinion first hand
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Every United States president since Harry Truman has declined to open up the UFO subject.
“every president since truman has declined to open this door.”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 01:29:36.5-01:29:44.8 opinion first hand
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Whitley Strieber holds that Harry Truman would certainly have been asked about the UFO subject, and that Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon would have known about it.
“Truman certainly would have been asked about that, uh Eisenhower would have known about it, Nixon would have known about it,”
The Terrible Truth About the Visitors - Whitley Strieber | ep. 96 2026-07-24 01:29:45.4-01:29:56.0 opinion first hand
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Arthur Ernest Exon told Whitley Strieber, in what Strieber gives as a direct quote, that everyone from Harry S. Truman on down knew that what had been found at Roswell was not of this world within 24 hours of the finding.
“And he said that he said, and this is a direct quote, everyone from Truman on down knew that what we found had found was not of this world within 24 hours of our findings.”
Whitley Strieber Reveals What 40 Years of Encounters Taught Him | Reality Check Rewind 2026-08-14 00:41:05.6-00:41:18.8 hearsay second hand