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by
Steven M Greer
2004
from
WorldAffairsJournal.com Website
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Since the
end of the Second World War, the US military industrial
complex has secretly sponsored at great public cost the
R&D of new technologies for energy generation, air and
outer space flight, futuristic weaponry and other mostly
military ends, which have not been made available for
the common good. Yet today�s environmental and economic
emergencies dictate that the accumulated know-how be
used for the benefit of mankind in its peaceful
applications. |
[There] exists a Shadowy
Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its
own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own
ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and
balances, and free from the law itself.
� Senator Daniel K Inouye
In the councils of Government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The
potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists,
and will persist. We must never let the weight of this
combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and
knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the
huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our
peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may
prosper together
� President Eisenhower
January 1961
The above address by two-term
Republican US President and five-star Army General
Dwight Eisenhower was issued as a prescient warning when he left
office in 1961. Many have wondered why such a conservative,
pro-military president would issue such a warning. We now know why.
The
Disclosure Project, an NGO
based in the United States, has identified several hundred military,
intelligence and corporate witnesses to illegal and
extra-constitutional projects that have suppressed information and
prevented public access to technologies which could provide a
definitive replacement for oil, coal, nuclear power and other
conventional energy sources. These technologies have been both
acquired and developed by military and industrial interests in the
US, UK and other countries that have repeatedly lied to or withheld
this information from legally constituted authorities and the
public.
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This information has the potential to completely transform
the current state of the world in the areas of technology, energy
production, propulsion, the environment and geopolitical issues
related to oil and energy supplies. In short, a sustainable,
non-polluting and affluent civilization could be created by the wise
application of these technologies, and many of the most pressing
crises facing the world community could have been avoided if it had
not been for the deliberate suppression of such technological
knowledge. While �national security concerns� have been
invoked as reasons for such secrecy, in reality the policy is driven
by the resolve to maintain the current �status quo� based on the
pre-eminence of oil and fossil fuels and related special interests.
By the time President Eisenhower left, a transformation had
occurred in the structure of Western military, intelligence and
corporate programmes. The urgent pressures of the nuclear arms race
and the Cold War with the Soviets had created an
atmosphere of extreme secrecy, dwarfing the secret infrastructure
surrounding the Manhattan Project that built the
atomic bomb during the Second World War. The fate of the free world
was at stake, and no expense was spared to create the means to
advance technologies within the dark womb of secrecy. A culture
evolved that required such secrecy for national survival and the �need-to-know-only�
requirements of such programmes were further reinforced by the
well-known espionage scandals of that era, including that of the
Rosenbergs.
However, such a culture of generally regarded justifiable secrecy
also created opportunities for abuse within the military,
intelligence, corporate and laboratory complex. Classified
programmes, appropriately structured to require a genuine
need-to-know situation in order for one to have access to them,
became increasingly �compartmented�, restricted and shadowy.
Mechanisms for funding became Byzantine and obscure; programme
structures were hidden with cover stories, �store front� operations
and became virtually impenetrable; and the people within such
programmes found themselves at once increasingly isolated and
strangely empowered.
It was in this womb, awash with billions of dollars of so-called
�black
budget� funding, that
extreme (and many would maintain essential) secrecy gave birth to
the monster of rogue, illegal and powerful �unacknowledged
special access projects� (USAPs) dealing with a
number of unusual phenomena and technologies. In the world of
USAPs, compartmentalization is so great, the need to know so
restricted and the information so important, that meaningful
supervision by the constitutionally required authorities in the US,
UK and other countries became simply impossible. Here, �unacknowledged�
means that nobody is ever told about the project unless he
absolutely needs to know and is directly required to be involved in
operations. Even if a senior official inquires, the answer is �no
such project exists.�
Moreover, the milieu of the �revolving door� world of military,
intelligence and corporate programmes created corporate and
financial influences that ran counter to genuine �national
security� interests or any legitimate public interest.
Especially in the United States, the multi-billion dollar
expenditures on military technologies, research and development
programmes and outsourced services and operations allowed for a
commingling of public finances and private interests. This, combined
with the extreme compartmentalization of programmes, allowed for
serious abuses of the public trust to take place.
Ultimately, such programmes � networked carefully with other
programmes and corporate research � became so restrictive that legal
authorities were routinely and as a matter of course left out of the
loop. Ultimately, those left out of the loop would become members of
Congress and even the US president.
Indeed, when President Eisenhower left office, operations had
become so complex and out of control, that he was convinced he was
being shut out of vital developments and operations. In the years
since, matters have decayed exponentially to the point that we
estimate today some $100 billion per year go into unacknowledged
programmes escaping the substantial knowledge of the US
president and US Congress.
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USAP AND ADVANCED ENERGY AND PROPULSION SYSTEMS
The �crown jewels� of such USAPs are those connected
to very advanced energy and propulsion systems. In the 1940s
and 1950s, a concerted effort was made to investigate a number of
phenomena related to emerging sciences, including those associated
with electromagnetism and electro-gravitic/magneto-gravitic
technologies for their promising potential in creating energy and
propulsion systems valuable to urgent defense projects.
During that era, particular interest was paid to what the public
call UFOs (unidentified flying objects). It is
important to note that the term UFO was only coined
after covert programmes discovered that such objects were neither
unidentified nor �flew� in any conventional sense of the word.
Indeed, the majority of the information and culture associated with
UFOs is disinformation designed to deflect serious
scientific, media or mainstream governmental inquiry. People have
been systematically deceived for half a century.
UFOs well-documented aerial phenomena, some of which
are extra-terrestrial vehicles whereas others are advanced
covert government aircraft using energy and propulsion
technologies that could transform life on earth. It should be noted
that the man-made devices are the result of illegally classified
research and development (and acquisition) of technologies as well
as the study of retrieved extraterrestrial vehicles.
Once technological breakthroughs were made, the secrecy associated
with these projects became extraordinary. Indeed, the clandestinity
surrounding these advanced energy and propulsion devices far
exceeded the secrecy that shrouded the development of the hydrogen
bomb.
From a November 21, 1950 (authenticated) top secret Canadian
document:
I [the author] made discreet
enquiries through the Canadian Embassy staff in Washington who
were able to obtain for me the following information:
a. � The matter is
the most highly classified subject in the United States
Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.
b. � Flying saucers exist.
c. � Their modus operandi is unknown but
concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by
Dr Vannevar Bush.
d. � The entire matter is considered by the
United States authorities to be of tremendous significance.
Putting aside the aura of silliness that
surrounds the subject in pop culture, the media and the tabloids,
over 2000 pages of documents released to the Disclosure
Project by the US, UK, Spanish and other governments
clearly establish the importance of the matter at the time. Space
here does not allow inclusion of even a sampling of these documents
but they may be viewed, in part, on our website and reviewed in the
book Disclosure by this author.
Today, this subject usually elicits laughter, embarrassment and
dismissal. This is certainly understandable since at least 99 per
cent of everything said, written, filmed or otherwise placed in the
public domain on the subject is outright deception. But in the
corridors of power � and especially in the corridors of covert
programmes � the matter is of utmost importance. This is
because at the core of this enigma lies a body of science that
eliminates in one generation the need for oil, fossil fuels and the
related pollution and establishes a truly sustainable world
civilization exempt from poverty as we know it. The relentless
ridicule associated with the UFO subject matter is
deliberate and staged: It hides a profound body of knowledge
dwarfing the changes that have transpired from the industrial
revolution until today by several orders of magnitude. In a letter
to Congress, first CIA Director Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter had this to say:
It is time for the truth to be
brought out � Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers
are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through
official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe
the unknown flying objects are nonsense � I urge immediate
Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about
unidentified flying objects...
We have identified nearly 500
military, corporate, intelligence and laboratory witnesses to
events and programmes connected to these matters. The body of
evidence is overwhelming and definitive. In May 2001,
we held a press conference at the National Press Club in
Washington, DC at which more than 20 such witnesses provided
testimony and documents regarding their direct, first-hand
involvement in the subject. It was the most-watched webcast in
history, and ultimately over a million people viewed the event over
the Internet. The event was reported by CNN, CNN International,
major networks like the BBC, the Voice of America, Pravda, the
Chinese News Agency, Telemundo, The Washington Times and other media
around the world. Tens of thousands of people wrote to the president
and members of Congress asking for an investigation of the subject
and a general declassification of information.
And then
September 11 happened. In
view of the US Patriot Act and other developments, including the
Iraq war, the US Congress has elected not to pursue the
matter. But the international community, which is greatly harmed by
the continued imposition of this secrecy, is the primary victim and
should be the prime mover in getting these matters investigated.
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EXPERT WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY
Sufficient evidence, documents, physical proof and testimonies
exist to definitively make the case for the reality of the issue as
well as its illegal handling. Beginning in 1992, we met with senior
government officials in the US, UK, the United Nations and other
agencies and discovered a remarkable degree of interest in resolving
this problem and obtaining a general disclosure of the facts. The
officials ranged from members of the US Senate Intelligence
Committee to the first acting CIA director
under President Clinton, including very senior admirals and
generals at the Pentagon and in the British
General Staff. There is widespread agreement that the
subject has enormous implications for the future of humanity
and that the secrecy has become inexcusable.
What has been lacking is the will to take meaningful action on the
issue. While interest and moral support for disclosure are high,
fear is even greater. Consider what some of these top secret
�whistle-blower� witnesses have said
about this secrecy and the fear it engenders:
Brigadier General Stephen Lovekin:
Army National Guard Reserves. As a
young army officer he worked with President Eisenhower in
the last years of his presidency.
But what happened was that Eisenhower got sold out.
Without him knowing it, he lost control of what was going on
with the entire UFO situation. In his
last
address to the nation, I think he was telling us that
the military industrial complex would stick (sic) you in the
back if you were not totally vigilant. And, I think that he felt
like he had not been vigilant. I think he felt like he trusted
too many people. And Eisenhower was a trusting man. And I think
that he realized that all of a sudden this matter is going into
the control of corporations that could very well act to the
detriment of this country.
This frustration, from what I can remember, went on for months.
He realized that he was losing control of the UFO subject. As
far as I can remember, that was the expression that was used,
�It is not going to be in the best hands.� That was a real
concern. And so it has turned out to be ...
�It had been discussed with me on numerous occasions what could
happen to me militarily if I discussed this. I would say that
the government has done as good a job enforcing secrecy through
the installation of abject fear as they have done with anything
within the memory of modern man.�
One older officer discussed with me what possibly could happen
if there was a revelation. He was talking about being erased and
I said,
�Man, what do you mean erased?� And, he said, �Yes, you
will be erased � disappear.� And I said, �How do you know all
this?� And he said, �I know.�
Those threats have been made and
carried out. Those threats started way back in 1947. The Army
[and the] Air Force was given absolute control over how to
handle this. This being the biggest security situation that this
country has ever dealt with and there have been some erasures �
I don�t care what kind of a person you are. I don�t care how
strong or courageous you are. It would be a very fearful
situation because from what Matt [this older officer] said,
�They will go after not only you. They will go after your
family.�
Those were his words. And, so I can only say that the
reason that they have managed to keep it under wraps for so long
is through fear. They are very selective about how they pull
someone out to make an example of. And I know that that has been
done.
Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt :
US Marine Corps, present at a
retrieval of a UFO in South America
�You weren�t supposed to be there.� �You are not supposed to see
this.� �You are going to be dangerous if we let you go.� I
thought that they were going to kill me, really �
Lethal, deadly force has been used. For those of you who don�t
know, I know marine snipers and I have heard other guys talk
about it and I�ve heard that these guys go on the streets and
they stalk people and they kill them. I know that the Army
Airborne snipers do the same thing. They use Delta Force to go
grab these people and silence them by killing them.
Larry Warren:
US Air Force, Security Officer, present during the
landing of a UFO at Bentwaters Air Force Base in the UK
We were gone over with a Geiger counter and there was one return
on one of the guys, and something was taken out of his pocket.
(He had picked up an item from the retrieved craft.) This guy
was removed very quickly. And, I will swear on my life, I never
saw him again. He was removed. This happened to a lot of people.
It led to a suicide that the Air Force is responsible for. This
is a real person with a real name ...
Master Sergeant Dan Morris :
US Air Force, NRO (National
Reconnaissance Office) Operative
I became part of a group that would investigate, gather the
information, and in the beginning it was still under the
Blue
Book,
Snowbird and different covert programmes. I would go
interview people who claimed they had seen something and try to
convince them they hadn�t seen something or that they were
hallucinating. Well, if that didn�t work, another team would
come in and give all the threats. And threaten them and their
family and so on and so forth. And they would be in charge of
discrediting them, making them look foolish and so on and so
forth. Now if that didn�t work, then there was another team that
put an end to that problem, one way or another.
Professor Robert Jacobs:
US Air Force, who filmed a UFO
intercepting an early ICBM test
After an article [came out about the incident] � I started being
harassed at work. I started getting odd telephone calls that
would come during the day. At night, at my house I would get
telephone calls � all night long sometimes � 3.00 in the
morning, 4.00 in the morning, midnight, 10.00. People would call
and start screaming at me. �You are going down (unprintable
expletive)! You are going down! And that�s all they would say.�
And they�d keep screaming that until I finally hung up the
phone.
One night somebody blew up my mailbox by putting a big load of
skyrockets in it. The mailbox went up in flames. And that night
at 1:00 in the morning the phone rang. I picked it up and
somebody said, �skyrockets in your box at night, oh what a
beautiful sight!�
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And things like that have happened
on and off since 1982 �
I believe this nutty fringe around UFOs is part of a concerted
effort to keep serious study of it down. Anytime anybody tries
to study this subject seriously, we are subject to ridicule. I�m
a full professor at a relatively major university. And I�m
certain that my colleagues at the university laugh at me and
hoot and holler behind my back when they hear that I have an
interest in studying unidentified flying objects � and that�s
just one of the things that we have to live with �
What happened to the film is an interesting story in itself as
Major Mansmann related to me and other people. Sometime after I
had gone, the guys in civilian clothes � I thought it was the
CIA but he said no, it wasn�t the CIA, it was somebody else �
took the film and they spooled off the part that had the UFO on
it and they took a pair of scissors and cut it off. They put
that on a separate reel. They put it in their briefcase. They
handed Major Mansmann back the rest of the film and said here,
�I don�t need to remind you, Major, of the severity of a
security breach; we�ll consider this incident closed.�
And they
walked off with the film. Major Mansmann never saw it again.
Merle Shane McDow:
US Navy Atlantic Command
These two gentlemen began to question me about this event. They
were being pretty rough about it, to be honest with you. I
remember literally putting my hands up and saying, �Wait a
minute fellows. I am on your side. Just a minute.� Because they
were not really nice. They were very intimidating and made it
quite clear to the point that nothing that was seen, heard, or
witnessed, that transpired was to leave this building. You are
not to say a word about it to your co-workers. And off base, you
just forget everything that you may have seen or heard
concerning this. It didn�t happen ...
Major George A Filer, III:
US Air Force (Retd.)
At times I used to carry nuclear weapons. In other words, I was
mentally fit to carry nuclear weapons, but I�m not mentally fit
if I see a UFO. This criticism and this ridicule have done more
to keep the story coming out than almost anything else.
John Callahan:
FAA Head of Accidents and Investigations
� When they got done, they actually swore all these other guys
in there that this never took place. We never had this meeting.
And this was never recorded �
This was one of the guys from the
CIA. Okay? That they were
never there and this never happened. At the time I said, well I
don�t know why you are saying this. I mean, there was something
there and if it�s not the stealth bomber, then you know, it�s a
UFO. And if it�s a UFO, why wouldn�t you want the people to
know? Oh, they got all excited over that. You don�t even want to
say those words. He said this is the first time they ever had 30
minutes of radar data on a UFO. And they are all itching to get
their hands onto the data and to find out what it is and what
really goes on. He says if they come out and told the American
public that they ran into a UFO out there, it would cause panic
across the country. So therefore, you can�t talk about it. And
they are going to take all this data �
� When the CIA told us that this never happened and we never had
this meeting, I believe it was because they didn�t want the
public to know that this was going on. Normally we would put out
some type of a news release that such and such happened ...
In short, so ruthless and unrelenting has been the secrecy
associated with these issues that no institution or leader to
date has been willing to take the matter on. Indeed, after we
met with CIA Director James Woolsey in December 1993 and
recommended that President Clinton take direct executive action
to end the secrecy and facilitate a disclosure, we saw first
hand how great the fear was. A friend of the president visited
us after this meeting and informed us that it was felt that the
president would �end up like [President] John Kennedy if he did
what we suggested.� Of course, we initially burst into laughter,
until we were stopped and informed that such concerns were real.
We were stunned. Until then, we had relegated such concerns to
the dustbin of conspiracy theories.
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But it appears that the fear
and ruthless control exercised by these projects around the
world has effectively kept the matter off the public radar
screen. In our view, the propagation of such fear as a tool for
control is a genuine form of international terrorism. Its
effects are devastating:
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it has neutralized democratic processes
and institutions,
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engendered paralyzing fear,
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hijacked the
future of humanity,
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impoverished billions of people
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and
decimated the earthly environment in the span of one human
lifetime.
Indeed, the harmful effects of such rogue secrecy
exceed by orders of magnitude the consequences of any terrorist
organization operating today.
Subsequent meetings with members of Congress and other high
officials resulted in enormous concern � even consternation �
but no action. We repeatedly heard that many in senior positions
were concerned with such unsanctioned secrecy, but these
officials would simply pass the buck to others, saying �Why
don�t you meet with so and so on another committee and get him
to hold a hearing?�
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Other witnesses have described these
operations thus:
Dr Paul Czysz:
McDonnell Douglas Career Engineer
The
black budget world is like trying to describe Casper the
friendly ghost. You might see a cartoon of him but you don�t know
how big he is, you don�t know where his funding comes from, you
don�t know how many there are because of the compartmentalization
and the oath that people have to take. I know people today that
worked on one of the things that I worked on, and if you asked them
about it � even if it is being discussed on the Internet � they
would say �No, I have no idea what you�re talking about.� They�re in
their seventies now, but they still would absolutely never admit
that they even know what you�re talking about. You have no idea, but
it�s probably larger than you think.
John Maynard:
DIA Official
Of corporations involved in this matter, Atlantic Research
Corporation is one of the big ones. So it�s not very often heard
about. It�s an insider beltway bandit, if you want to call it that,
very low profile, mostly has all of its work done within
Intelligence. TRW, Johnson Controls,
Honeywell; All of them at some
point or another became involved with the intelligence field.
Certain works, activities were contracted out to them. Atlantic
Research was one of them � way back. These are entities that were
created out of people in the Pentagon to become a �beltway bandit� �
received projects, grants, and monies to do certain projects that
were so highly classified and compartmentalized that, you know, only
about four people would know what was going on. So it was that
tightly controlled.
Edgar Mitchell :
Astronaut
Whatever activity is going on, to the extent that it is a
clandestine group, a quasi-government group, a quasi-private group,
it is without any type, as far as I can tell, of high-level
government oversight. And that is a great concern.
Mitchell later made a statement to the media, reported in the
St
Petersburg Times of February 28, 2004,
�The Aliens have landed � a
few insiders know the truth and are studying the bodies � A cabal of
insiders stopped briefing presidents about extraterrestrials after
President Kennedy.�
Sergeant Clifford Stone :
US Army
�. They immediately come out and say, �Oh, we can�t keep secrets, we
can�t keep secrets.� Well, the truth is, yes, we can.
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The National
Reconnaissance Office remained secret for many, many
years.
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The mere existence of the NSA remained secret.
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The
development of the atomic weapon remained secret until once you
exploded one you eventually had to tell some people what was going
on.
�. I had classified documents the Air Force acknowledged. When I got
members of Congress to help me open up more files, they were
immediately destroyed and I can prove this.
When Congress did their review of the way we protect documents, and
the way we go ahead and implement our secrecy programmes, they found
that you had special access programmes within special access
programmes � that it was essentially impossible to keep control of
them all by Congress. And, I�m telling you right now; it is
essentially impossible to keep control of them all.
When it comes to
UFOs, the same criteria [sic] applies. Therefore,
only a small nucleus within the intelligence community, numbering
less than a hundred � no, I�d suggest less than 50 � control all
that information. It is not subject to congressional review or
oversight at all.
Dr Robert Wood:
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer
As you may know, when you get cleared for one of these classified
programmes you wear your special badge and you know you can talk to
anybody who�s in the room with a lot of candour and it feels like
that�s one�s psychological group � there�s a lot of camaraderie that
builds up. And you had access to special libraries. So one of the
things that we could do is go up to the library that the Air Force
ran and sort of paw through top secret material. Since I was
interested in UFOs, when I had some usual business to take care of,
I�d also look in their library to see what they had on UFOs. And for
about a year I was getting quite a few hits on the subject about
various reports. Then all of a sudden, the whole subject material
vanished. The entire classification for the subject just vanished.
The librarian in our group that I was working with said he�d been in
that vault for twenty years and knew exactly how things were
normally done. He said, �This is remarkable!� He said, �I�ve never
seen that before, you just don�t have a whole subject vanish out
from under you.� He said, �I think there is something there that you
hit on ...�
In the meantime, there was one other thing that came about as a
result of my association with Jim McDonald (a well-known
UFO scientific investigator). I liked the guy; he was really an
energetic physicist and wouldn�t let any grass grow under his feet.
When he got a case he would dig his teeth into it and present an
overwhelmingly convincing story to professional societies. He would
talk to the American Institute of Aeronautics and the American
Physical Society, and I happened to be members of both. So whenever
he was in town I would pick him up, escort him, made sure he felt
welcome.
So once when I was traveling through Tucson, where he lived, I
stopped � I had a two-hour layover to catch an airplane � and he
came out to the airport to have a beer with me. I said, �What�s new,
Jim?� He said, �I think I�ve got it.� I said, �What do you think you
got?� He said, �I think I got the answer.� I said, �What is it?� He
said, �I can�t tell you yet. I have got to be sure.� It was six
weeks after that that he tried to shoot himself. A couple months
after that he finally died.
Knowing what I think I now suspect about the skills of our counter
intelligence people, I think we had the capacity to convince him to
do it himself. I think that�s what happened ...
Clearly in order to have effective control of this subject, you have
to control it at all levels and the most obvious level is the media.
So you have to look at all the kinds of media there are, the movies,
the magazines, and of course in the early days that�s all it is,
newspapers and movies and magazines. Now we have the Internet and
video and all those other sorts of things. But as the technology has
blossomed in these other avenues, the people worrying about this
control have also just moved into those avenues right along with
them. So every time a new avenue comes up they have a new
counterpoint.
The reader should note that we have gathered nearly 500 such
credentialed witnesses from every agency and branch of the
military, as well as select corporations involved in the secrecy.
The group maintaining this secrecy, at least at a policy level,
numbers some 200�300 individuals from a number of countries and
represents a powerful array of interests including those connected
to financial, technological, security, religious, media, political
and scientific areas. In 1993, contacts in this group stated to us
that about a third of those involved were in favor of ending the
secrecy and a broad disclosure of the facts; as of today we estimate
over 40 per cent hold this opinion. Those who think that such a
group could not get away indefinitely with such secrecy are right.
We have obtained sufficient actionable intelligence, sources and
documents to make the case. We have names, programme code numbers,
the locations of operations and corporate programmes and related
vital intelligence. But to whom will this information be disclosed
and to what end?
Since the secrecy related to these technologies and operations is
rogue, unconstitutional and harmful, any legitimate governmental or
international body could hold a hearing at which witnesses and
evidence could be presented. Legal and national security experts
associated with the
Disclosure Project have determined that, since
the secrecy is unregulated and outside the bounds of the law, the
leaders of such projects have no legitimate right to enforce such
secrecy. This means those persons holding secrets are no longer
constitutionally bound by any past or current secrecy oaths. This
assessment has been shared with senior governmental officials and to
date no entity or official has challenged this position.
Significantly, during the preparation and in the aftermath of the
above-mentioned National Press Club event (2001), none of the
whistle-blowers or staff of the Disclosure Project have been
threatened or silenced in any way. We have been able to make a
definitive case for the evidence as also for the illegal nature of
the secrecy. Hence, no legal entity can insist on silence.
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A CALL FOR REVELATION
Aside from these legal arguments, there is a compelling moral and
ethical
reason to end the secrecy. First, humanity is suffering needlessly
due to the continued withholding of vital scientific and
technological knowledge acquired through these programmes.
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These technologies allow for the extraction of useful energy from
the so-called quantum vacuum state. This means that every village in
Africa or India could have an off-the-grid energy source that
extracts energy from the space around the device, with no need for
the burning of fuels or transmission lines from central utilities.
Such �free energy� generators would utterly transform the current,
seemingly hopeless world situation as regards poverty, pollution,
economic stagnation and the like. �
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Second, the world stands to gain from new critical technology. The
implications of replacing fossil fuels and nuclear power with these
new, advanced energy and propulsion systems cannot be overstated:
every aspect of life on earth will be affected and a truly
sustainable, technologically advanced civilization can be built. The
developing world can bypass the stage of industrial pollution and
expensive centralized utilities and go directly to point-of-use
power generation. As abundance grows exponentially, educational
opportunities will increase. Global warming will cease and pollution
generally will be brought under control. Desalinating sea water will
become inexpensive and help prevent desertification and resource
depletion. And we will have no more oil wars. �
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Third, disclosure of these secret programmes is not without its
potentially negative consequences. It may be argued that such a new
technology could have destabilizing military applications. This is
no doubt true � every new technology can be harnessed for war. But
this brings up an important point: are we, as a civilization,
prepared to see humanity commit planeticide � the killing of an
entire planet � just so we can avoid the responsibility of creating
a peaceful world? The state of the world will not be significantly
improved by tinkering around the edges of oil, coal, solar or wind
power, and we are facing a cruel future of environmental decay,
impoverished exploding populations, global instability and war.
This, while a comprehensive solution to these problems sits in a
black box.
Hence, it is time for these technologies to be
properly and
carefully disclosed and applied. The International Court of Justice
and other international agencies must take a leadership role in
investigating and disclosing the facts, and facilitating the release
of these new energy and propulsion systems. The Disclosure Project
stands ready to provide full information and briefings to
governmental leaders, institutions and agencies.
The international community must investigate these issues � and stop
looking the other way. Illegal secrecy, withholding solutions to our
most pressing concerns, is one of the greatest moral and political
crises of our time, if not the greatest one. The time has come that
this publicly funded but �hijacked� research be made available for
the benefit of all of humanity. That six billion humans continue to
live in a manner that cannibalizes our home planet while solutions
are deliberately and with malice withheld cannot be allowed. No
matter how great the financial or other interests may be in propping
up the dying oil economy, we cannot let our oil addiction drag the
entire body of humanity down with it.
Instead, with courage and care, let us disclose the truth, and allow
these wondrous new sciences to provide humanity with the means to
live peacefully and in abundance on earth. This is no utopian dream.
We already have the means to create such a world. Now we must find
the will.
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