“US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy worried about UFOs appearing in the skies over the Soviet Union. After all, the Soviets could misinterpret this phenomenon, mistaking it for American aggression and considering it to be some kind of new US technique. I think this is one of the reasons why Kennedy wanted to get this kind of information and take it out of NASA's control. Having received it, he could tell the Soviets: "Look, this is not us, we did not do this, these are not our provocations""
William Lester. Freedom Triumph: John F. Kennedy and New Frontiers.
Secret letters
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by bullets by the lone maniac Lee Harvey Oswald on the morning of November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Until now, two-thirds of Americans do not believe the official version and suspect some kind of conspiracy.
Only a short list of all the hypotheses connected with the death of Kennedy, or DFK (as journalists have long called him), would have made up an impressive tome over the past half century. And recently to the investigation of the most mysterious and high-profile murder of the last century was added the book of school teacher William Lester "The Triumph of Freedom: John F. Kennedy and" New Frontiers ".
The writer claims that the CIA, under the Freedom of Information Act, provided him with several documents, among which were Kennedy's letters to the CIA director and the NASA leadership. In them, the president, shortly before the Dallas tragedy, allegedly demanded to provide him with all secret documents about "paranormal phenomena and UFOs."
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Lester's book once again fueled the passions of conspiracy theorists around the famous "burnt note".
This document with charred edges appeared in 1999 from the American ufologist Tim Cooper. Tim allegedly got it from an anonymous CIA employee who saved the note from the fire when expired documents were destroyed in 1974.
In a “burnt note,” the alleged CIA director informs an unknown addressee: “As you know, Spearman began to inquire about our activities, which we cannot allow. Please submit your opinion on this issue no later than October. Your actions in this matter are extremely important for the preservation of the group."
Cooper believes that it is about Kennedy, who began to ask "uncomfortable" questions. This was the reason for his death. Cooper's investigation was continued by his colleague Robert Wood. He conducted an "independent graphological examination" of the paper and type of the "burnt note". According to the conspiracy theorist, "the authenticity of the document is beyond doubt."
Cooper's Myths
Lester, Cooper and Wood refer to another Cooper in their investigations - Milton William. This "naval reconnaissance" came to ufology when he saw a saucer launching from the depths of the ocean, much larger than a Midway-class aircraft carrier. " Then he went to Vietnam, where he "saw many UFOs." Milton also claimed that reports of "UFO activity" were consistently encountered in the Navy's Pacific HQ Intelligence Division.
Subsequently, the "naval intelligence officer" claimed that with the help of his former colleagues he learned all the details of Kennedy's assassination by the CIA, the FBI Department 5 and the secret intelligence service of the Navy.
Burnt note
It turns out that the fatal bullet in the president's head was fired by an "undercover CIA agent" - driver William Greer. He fired a poisonous explosive bullet from a kind of "electric pulse pistol".
According to the ufologist-intelligence officer, Kennedy learned about the existence of the top-secret projects "Red Light" and "Magic Land", which are part of the global mission "Majestic". Their goal was to create "flying saucers" from captured UFOs at the deeply conspiratorial base Area 51.
Today, such "urban legends" are rejected by the majority of ufologists, but there was something in the myth-making of the retired "intelligence officer" that attracted the closest attention of the American special services.
Bush, oil … and drugs
Talking about the breathtaking adventures of "little green men" in the vicinity of the American Mecca of ufologists - Roswell and Area 51, Milton Cooper suddenly makes a stunning conclusion. It turns out that Kennedy learned not only about contacts with aliens, but also about large-scale corruption under the leadership of … George W. Bush!
The former intelligence officer wrote: “The papers I read specifically emphasize that when George W. Bush was the head of the oil company Sapata Oil, he, together with the CIA, organized the first large drop of drugs into his country from South and Central America. The drugs were transported in the holds of fishing vessels to the Sapata Oil platforms and from there to shore.”
If this was true, and the President was going to tell Congress and the people about it, then there is a really good reason to deal with him.
Then another famous phrase of Kennedy sounds completely different, when he laughed at one of the press conferences, looking at journalistic photos of UFOs, and then, suddenly becoming serious, said: “I would like to tell the people about the UFO situation, but my hands are tied.
Generally speaking, "Bush's drug trafficking" made us look at all of Milton Cooper's myth-making in a new way. So, the famous ufologist Robert Collins directly states that the kaleidoscope of "urban legends" of the former intelligence officer deliberately provoked the conspiracy theorists, leading them away from something very important. For example, the same projects of the Majestic mission could conceal branched corruption schemes for the withdrawal of public funds for all sorts of projects to observe UFOs.
And Cooper performed his role brilliantly. This is evidenced by an extensive series of publications in the international "UFO-magazine" edited by the prominent conspiracy theorist Don Eckerom. He dedicated his articles to the "former intelligence officer" under the heading "Incredible Dreamers". And nowhere did he even mention a word about the corrupt version of Kennedy's death.
The tragic end of the cover legend
In recent years, Milton Cooper lived under the yoke of some painful fears. According to fellow ufologists, the “former intelligence officer” was least of all afraid of revenge from the exposed “green men” or “men in black”. Certain "government agents" caused him real horror. Having retired on a ranch in Arizona, he poured his fears into whiskey and even tried to create militias against … "the secret US government." Once his house was surrounded by the police under the pretext that the owner was "threatening local residents with weapons," and the former intelligence officer was killed in the shootout.
The American media, as if on cue, portrayed the "former intelligence officer" as a maniac and drunken alcoholic who lost his mind on the basis of "plate addiction".
However, there were those who were mindful of the "corruption component" of Cooper's investigations and strongly objected to irresponsible labeling.
Among those who stood up for the posthumous honor of the "scout" were the authoritative writer-ufologist Bob Frissell and Professor Lawrence Merrick. The latter, in The Assassination of an Envoy: The Death of JF Kennedy, recalls a cryptic phrase uttered by the president at a meeting with Columbia University students 10 days before his death:
- The presidency was used to orchestrate a conspiracy against the American people. Before leaving this post, I must inform the citizens of their situation.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's confession
Professor Merrick writes that Kennedy became interested in the "UFO phenomenon" after meeting his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Vice-President Lyndon Johnson advised him to meet with the former president, who was very interested in the progress of the US Air Force's UFO Blue Book project.
What could Dwight Eisenhower know about UFOs and who was Kennedy preparing to expose?
The popular American cryptologist Timothy Goode, who at one time was even a government consultant on the paranormal, believes that Johnson played a multi-step political combination at one time. After meeting with Eisenhower, he persuaded the ex-president to give Kennedy some information that made him forget all caution and go directly to the CIA director. But did this "data stuffing" concern UFOs?
New Hampshire Congressman Henry McElroy at a recent press conference, commenting on Professor Merrick's book, noted that Eisenhower has always categorically denied the existence of aliens. His words, said to journalists on December 15, 1954, are widely known: "Flying saucers exist only in the imagination of eyewitnesses."
At the same time, McElroy claims that he got information about Kennedy's visit to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The President was very upset by this visit and kept repeating indignantly: "What an outrageously expensive props!"
The congressman believes that Kennedy demonstrated the "information cover" of the Apollo space project in the form of a park of UFO mock-ups built on the basis of observations of all kinds of "eyewitnesses". Maybe it was about this scam of the leadership of the Pentagon and the CIA that the 34th US President was going to inform his voters?
Today, science does not associate almost all more or less reliable UFO observations with alien civilizations and explains it by natural phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere. But the same science in no way denies the very possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Indeed, a few percent of known UFO sightings are still awaiting convincing scientific explanations.
Oleg ARSENOV