Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

“[note: OSS - Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA]”

“After an increase in UFO sightings in 1952, particularly those that gained widespread attention over the Washington, D.C. area during that summer, CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence, Robert Amory Jr., tasked the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence's (OSI) Physics and Electronics Division to review UFO cases.”

“This action followed a recommendation from CIA's Intelligence Advisory Committee to enlist the services of selected "scientists to review and appraise the available evidence in light of pertinent scientific theories."”

“So 1953, the CIA's Robertson panel of scientists convened and recommended a public education campaign built on one strategy, publicize the cases that have already been debunked and say nothing about the ones that haven't.”

“One of the recommendations of a recently declassified CIA/USAF panel on UFOs, which met in 1953, was precisely to monitor the activities of civilian groups”

“the Board of Directors of NICAP lists among its members the former head of the CIA”

“Admiral Hillenkoeter, the former CIA chief who stated, “It is imperative that we learn what UFOs are and where they come from,””

“In February 1958, President Eisenhower decided the CIA would have the lead role in the program, called "CORONA," and that it would be jointly managed alongside the USAF.”

“President Eisenhower approved this CIA-led program to develop a successor to the U-2 spy plane in 1958, which became fully operational in 1965.”

“By the time the A-12 was deployed by the CIA in 1967, CORONA satellites were being used to collect imagery of denied areas with less provocation than aircraft overflights.”

“More than half of the UFO reports investigated in the 1950s and 1960s were assessed to be U.S. reconnaissance flights, according to a declassified CIA assessment on reconnaissance aircraft.”

“the CIA actually made like six companies in order to buy the titanium from Russia to bring it back and build an airplane out of titanium that we would fly over Russia.”

“Well, for decades, the Air Force, FBI, CIA, all the official agencies had a policy of denial. Deny the subject, dispel the subject, debunk the subject.”

“In response, the CIA began to fund their own research in secret at the Stanford Research Institute, SRI, in Menlo Park, California.”

“A famous remote viewing program, known as Project Stargate, was run for the Central Intelligence Agency at the Stanford Research Institute starting in 1972”

“Hal had been a Stanford University researcher and an employee of the NSA when he and his colleague Russell Targ were approached by the CIA and told that Russia had a remote-viewing program.”

“In various past capacities, he had regularly reported directly to the White House and the director of the CIA.”

“one of the original participants in the CIA evaluations of remote viewing back in the early 1970s”

“Swann was asked to remote view a secret facility in the Soviet Union that was believed to be used for the manufacturing of nuclear weapons.”

“The last time Hal had made this much progress on a program was during his time managing the CIA’s Stargate program.”

“The CIA's work on ESP concluded in the late 1970s, and the program moved to the US Army's Fort Meade in Maryland.”

“Stargate was embedded in the federal government, run for years by the CIA, and later the DIA. Recruits were trained to spy upon enemies, but not in the usual way. Stargate trained "supersoldiers" to spy on hard targets using their psychic gifts.”

“The CIA finally released a report in 1995 that acknowledged the US government's long-rumored work with remote viewing for military and intelligence purposes.”

“recently, in 2017, the CIA declassified some 12 million pages of records, which revealed new details about the program, now known as Project Stargate”

“Semivan was only recently retired from the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations after 25 years as an operations officer working inside the US and internationally.”

“I think he's a senior executive service, like just two people under the CIA director when he was working there.”

“His work paralleled the CIA's MKUltra program, which sought to manipulate human behavior for interrogation purposes.”

“There was a shell game within the CIA to prevent the inspector general, general counsel, Congress from learning about the program.”

“there was a whole mk series to include operation chaos which was domestic influence operations”

“they were experimenting with uh you know pretty intense mind control capabilities because the CIA got wind that the russia was also experimenting with this kind of thing.”

“And they wanted to create Manchurian Candidate Assassins and other things.”

“what we did catch was CIA paying off journalists at major, you know, news organizations. That's the whole Mockingbird thing that you hear.”

“According to celebrated civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan, before Carter's January inauguration he sought a meeting with the then Director of the CIA, George Herbert Walker Bush, later the 41st president, but the CIA Director flatly refused to give the president-elect a briefing on UFOs telling Carter he had no 'need to know'.”

“but the CIA Director flatly refused to give the president-elect a briefing on UFOs telling Carter he had no 'need to know'.”

“(Bush's term as CIA Director ended just before the inauguration in January 1977.)”

“that attorney Dan Sheehan told me he witnessed in 1977 – that the CIA Director flatly refused the president a briefing and, moreover, what the president was subsequently told in briefing documents did not reveal what Sheehan discovered”

“after lobbying from billionaire businessman and UAP believer Laurance Rockefeller, the president ordered his new CIA Director James Woolsey to release more of the files on the subject.”

“On his website, he dramatically casts a meeting he had with the then Director of America's Central Intelligence Agency, James Woolsey, in 1993 as 'a covert briefing on the topic of UFOs under the guise of a dinner party'.”

“He also said that when Woolsey became Director of the CIA, Petersen visited him at his office and raised with him 'that there were a lot of highly redacted documents that the UFO community thought might relate to government knowledge of "alien stuff"'.”

“Petersen flatly denied claims that the CIA boss reached out to Greer for a briefing or that Woolsey requested the meeting. 'There was no "cover story" and no "briefing" had been requested. It was simply a social function where it was presumed that the subject of UFOs would be discussed,' Petersen says.”

“From then on, Mr. Elizondo said in an interview, he worked with officials from the Navy and the C.I.A.”

“said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program.”

“For years he presided over the little-known “weird desk” at the CIA, in charge of investigating unusual medical issues, implants, and abductions, all related to UAP encounters and anything strange.”

“It's a colloquial term for a function which has moved around many times.”

“Clinton's science advisor is trying to get a briefing. And what happens is that goes to the place in the CIA where there is UFO information. It's called the Weird Desk.”

“And at that point, a guy called Dr. Ronald Pandolfi was running the Weird Desk.”

“[note: Ron Pandolfi - CIA analyst at the center of the UFO establishment]”

“A few months later I was sitting in a room with high-level Navy officials, CIA reps, and someone from the NSA... we rolled the tapes.”

“"The only way I see this being even remotely possible is if you had a... hybrid balloon with some sort of inducted fan at its center," he said, not quite believing his own words.”

“"Perhaps it is some sort of Mylar football that has its own navigation and propulsion."”

“"Um... perhaps they are using some sort of tether or beamed energy to give it power, you know? Like a floating platform nearby."”

“According to the CIA, it was not. It was not an artifact of the camera nor a lens flare.”

“The CIA and FBI sometimes slapped them up on their websites, for the whole world to search for and download.”

“Currently, the White House, CIA, NASA, the Pentagon, Department of Energy, and others play a role, but no one seems to be in charge, leading to unchecked power and corruption.”

“an infamous CIA operative actively involved with Watergate and long-rumored to have also been a key player in the Kennedy assassination”

“Novel also provided a way too gullible New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison with a CIA-Cuban-emigre link to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by suggesting that, while working for the CIA, he knew both the alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, Oswald's killer.”

“there's the Church Committee, there's the Rockefeller Commission, there's the Commission on Assassinations, all of them have looked at the question of whether there was CIA involvement in this.”

“seeing what Congress was not being told and not having appropriate insight akin to the Church Committee committees of the 1970s and not having insight on the CIA, NSA, and FBI's activities. I just thought it was wrong that this was allowed to go unchecked for so many years.”

“the CIA, Office of Naval Intelligence, the something called federally funded research and development centers, a lot of them were involved in the analysis over the decades.”

“he said that a retired Army remote viewer named Lynn Buchanan who was part of the old Stargate psychic spying program, told him the CIA has backdoor access to consumer DNA databases like Ancestry.com and 23andMe.”

“And what they're doing, supposedly, is screening for genetic markers, particularly for those pesky Nordic beings, alien beings that allegedly reside here on the planet with us.”

“But he's never directly confirmed the full Georgiani story or the notion of CIA backdoors.”

“And frankly, I really have no idea about the veracity of these claims. What I can tell you is that they are disputed.”

“it's anecdotal but it's also from guys who are very high up at the CIA especially when it comes to people like Jim Sammivan”