Mick Wall - The Secret Government

Probably a special sub-set of the National Security Council, involving the NSA and the CIA and NRO. Intelligence security stuff works like an old Western wagon wheel without a rim; you've got a lot of spokes going in, but spokes don't touch each other. And only what's in the middle - or who's in the middle - sees the whole picture. In other words, intelligence doesn't work by everybody exchanging with everybody else what they've got, quite the reverse. So I suspect MJ-12 - undoubtedly under a different name now - is a connection. You notice in the original group that the first three Directors of Central Intelligence were part of it. And when [Secretary of Defense, James] Forrestal departed he was replaced by a fourth Director of Central Intelligence. So clearly we have guys like that involved, I mean that's not an accident in other words. [16]

The make-up of MJ-12 was extraordinary and the scope and depth of knowledge that its participants could bring to bear was enormous. This alone points to the extreme importance with which the US Government held the UFO problem after the Roswell crashes. As more official documentation emerges the credibility of the Eisenhower Briefing document rises. Although initially skeptical about the authenticity of the papers, Friedman's research through the National Archives convinced him otherwise:

He remembers: [Researcher Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera] went in early July 1985 [to the National Archives], and found the Cutler-Twining memo, and they called me about that from Washington, and it immediately reminded me of another memo we had, something about “your concurrence in the above change of arrangements is assumed,” something like that. And we had been at the archives, looking at the Twining papers in the early 80's, and found memos . . .on operation Majestic-12, and that rang a bell, and we started checking around a bit more. One of the important things is that we found all sorts of stuff to be true that we didn't know to be true when we got the documents . . . For example, it came to light that Robert Cutler [Eisenhower's Special Assistant for National Security] was out of the country on the date of the Cutler-Twining memo and some people say, well, that proves it's phoney. Well there's no signature on it. I talked to the guy who worked for Truman, and Roosevelt before that, it would be perfectly normal for Edward Lay, who was the executive secretary for the National Security Council to do that in Cutler's place. And then when I was at the Eisenhower Library I ran across, in a box of NSC documents, one of the zillion they have, a document that was on a withdrawal sheet but it was from Cutler too, I mean from later Cutler and right in the time frame, and so I asked for that, and it took a couple of years to get it, but yeah, gee, Lay was communicating with Cutler. He'd left behind a memo saying keep things moving out of my in-basket, and here's Lay telling him he's doing that. I mean, they all fit together, we didn't have any of that information when we started out.

I see so much crap out there relating to MJ-12 I sometimes think it's hilarious, sometimes it's as frustrating as heck but people make up this stuff about MJ-12. Look how the Truman signature is supposedly a duplicate. We have these noisy negativists saying, oh, [Albert S.] Osborn 'Questioned Documents', 1978, says you can't have identical signatures, and so forth. In the first place, the book was written in 1910! Not in '78. Second place, it says, just a paragraph away from something they quote from the book, that you can have essentially identical signatures except not consecutively. And the legal case which dates back to around the turn of the century, some 80-year old guy whose will, four pages of it, had four identical signatures. And they say, “Uh huh, Osborn says it can't be.” That doesn't mean that Harry Truman never signed his name exactly the same. He bragged, I think it was to his sister, that after his victory in '48, totally unexpected by a lot of people, he was signing thank you notes for all the people who worked on the campaign, and it got to the point where he could sign 500 an hour, and you're gonna tell me that none of these were identical to any other one? Come on! Where's this coming from?

So I see so much false information put forwards as if it was the truth. [Author] Kevin Randle claimed that [Rear-] Admiral [Roscoe H.] Hillenkoetter would never have signed his name 'Admiral Hillenkoetter'. There's no Hillenkoetter signature on the MJ-12 documents! It's on a list of people using generic ranks, which is perfectly normal when you have a mixed group, that is, half-civilian, half-military. What difference is there if you're a four star general or a two star general? If you're a civilian you don't have a rank. In Eisenhower's books you'll find he uses generic ranks, General So-and-So, [rather than specifically a] four star general or only a two star. There's a ton of this stuff out there. [16]

Thanks to Friedman's exhaustive research, the MJ-12 documents appear to hold up under scrutiny. What this means is that a secret Government agency, headed by some of the most learned and powerful people in the country, was established in order to deal with a set of extraordinary circumstances. However, while, as noted above, the intelligence services have managed to elude all but a passing measure of oversight by Congress, MJ-12 has escaped it entirely. Friedman is sanguine about this lack of supervision given the nature of the subject matter. He comments: “I don't want technical data [from Roswell or elsewhere] put out on the table for the Saddam Husseins of the world.”

Nonetheless, the one group of people who would stand to benefit from the technology gleaned from the Roswell crashes were those at the centre of Friedman's wagon wheel, and, to a lesser degree, the whole of American society.

Given that the United States was not actually at war throughout this time - the Korean War having effectively ended and the Vietnam War yet to start - what can explain this phenomenal growth rate?

One possible explanation is the work that Corso was carrying out from his desk at the Pentagon. As he relates in his book, written shortly before his death: There was a lot of talk and pressure from the Joint Chiefs of Staff about technology sharing and joint weapons development, but my boss [Lt. General Arthur G. Trudeau] wanted us to keep what we had to ourselves, especially what he jokingly kept calling “the alien harvest”. [19]

This 'alien harvest' was what had been recovered from the Roswell crashes. It became Corso's duty to seed this technology out to trustworthy companies - i.e. those used to working on Top Secret 'black' projects - to discover whether any of the material had practical applications. They struck gold.

Amongst the most notable, and useful, technologies recovered from the craft were what Corso describes as 'silicon wafers'. He comments:

I didn't realize it at first when I showed these silicon wafers to General Trudeau, but I was about to become very quickly and intimately involved with the burgeoning computer industry and a very small, completely invisible, cog in an assembly-line process that fifteen years later would result in the first microcomputer systems and the personal computer revolution. [20]

The inspiration for that revolution in micro circuitry, as he writes, “had fallen out of the sky at Roswell and set the development of digital computers off in an entirely new direction” [21]. Corso seeded the technology to three companies, Sperry-Rand, Hughes and Bell Laboratories, and the results have changed the world.

Other technology that was back-engineered from the crash-sites included lasers [22] and fibre optics [23]. Dr. Gerard Bull, the Canadian scientist who would later achieve notoriety, if not infamy, for his work on the proposed Iraqi 'Super-gun', began this effort based on data gleaned from the Roswell crashes and the potential for high altitude, long-distance weaponry [24]. According to Corso, other military developments have included Stealth technology, depleted uranium shells and, perhaps most frightening of all, attempts to produce the 'death-ray' first conceived by Serbian physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) [25].

In short, the technology recovered from the Roswell crashes radically changed the world. More importantly, it ensured that the United States became the most powerful nation on Earth. The US had already assumed this position at the close of the Second World War but the technological treasures that befell them courtesy of the Roswell crashes meant that they managed to retain this position far longer than might otherwise have been expected.

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