| As obituaries go, it is about as nondescript as you may think about, its 120 phrases portray a silhouette of a person who, unbeknownst to the uninitiated reader, managed to build up extra enemies than associates throughout his 63 years on planet Earth.
Effectively, I am speaking not about UFOlogical iconoclast James W. Moseley (publisher-editor of the gossipzine “Saucer Smear”) however about certainly one of Moseley’s unfavored acquaintances — W. Todd Zechel, who based on “Smear’s” Oct. 10, 2008, difficulty, died in relative obscurity on Nov. 14, 2006. (Moseley, after all, stays with us, headed towards octohood.) Each males had been  |
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cigarette-smokers; in Zechel’s case, his weight problems and smoking in all probability precipitated him to maintain a stroke a number of years earlier than his demise.
In his later years, Zechel (who would possibly’ve loved being known as the “Colombo of UFOlogy”) had a tacit however however self-destructive method to interpersonal relations: if you cannot efficiently assault your enemies, then simply go forward and assault your pals. One way or the other, “Todd the God” (as he favored to be known as) seen me as a buddy — one who, alas, may very well be repeatedly exploited each time Zechel felt so inclined.
If Zechel may lay declare to any lasting self-descriptor, it would go like this: “The Final practitioner of the technique known as ‘the tip justifies the means.'” Even so, he possessed a folksy, ribald humorousness, a barely commendable irreverence towards official authority, an ample expertise for stalking/milking his analysis prey, and an enviable knack for writing.
It was within the latter class that I obtained my last phrase from him — cranked out by way of an e-mail message addressed to me and to a number of different individuals on Could 8, 2006. (Having no laptop of his personal, he relied on the communal laptop service at his native public library.) His message consisted of an essay titled “The CIA’s Most Secret Counterintelligence Venture: The Condon Committee.” Considered one of his e-correspondents on the time — Frank Riccardi, director of the [now defunct] UFO-research web page of eyepod dot org — has posted the essay’s contents as a part of the Eyepod’s on-line e-newsletter known as The Alien Chronicles — Situation 2-23.
In gentle of current rumors in regards to the U. S. Central Intelligence Company’s (alleged) interference with the (alleged) plans by sure U. S. Navy insiders to jump-start some official U. S. disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence (allegedly by way of a collection of high-level talks at secret UN-sponsored venues), I am presenting, beneath, the textual content of Zechel’s j’accuse smoking gun — as a type of elongated epitaph.
Meantime, readers needing to study extra about Zechel’s investigatory initiatives will discover his biographic sketch and different reprinted materials on the Web Archive web site.
THE CIA’S MOST SECRET UFO COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROJECT: The Condon Committee
By W. Todd Zechel
Investigative Journalist
Former NSA/ASA Communications Specialist
(c) 2006
When the U. S. Air Pressure, below Congressional strain, appointed Dr. Edward U. Condon of the College of Colorado to move a purported “unbiased scientific examine of UFOs” in 1966, it was the tip results of the CIA secretly taking cost of UFO intelligence in late 1957, having gained management of “‘scientific intelligence” throughout the intelligence neighborhood. Between 1958 and 1966, the Air Pressure had been caught within the publicly humiliating place of getting to faux it was the U.S. authorities company accountable for finding out UFO sightings and associated occasions for no matter intelligence may very well be obtained. However in actuality it was the CIA that had wrestled management away from the USAF by proving to the Nationwide Safety Council (NSC) that the Air Pressure had fully bungled the job and was incapable of dealing with it with out overlaying itself in proverbial eggs.
Dr. Condon had labored on the ultra-secret Manhattan Venture throughout WW II, serving to develop the Atomic Bomb. Later he grew to become the pinnacle of the Nationwide Bureau of Requirements, which assisted in American scientific, technical growth. However in early 1951 he instantly left the Bureau to develop into the director of analysis and growth at Corning Cookware in upstate New York. However not like the earlier director, Condon didn’t specialise in creating pots and pans at Corning; however as an alternative he spent his time creating missile and rocket nostril cones and warmth shields/ablation shields for America’s house program — Condon had been and was a key member of the Nationwide Aeronautics Advisory Committee (NACA), the forerunner of NASA. In reality, Condon is reputed (inside supersecret circles) to have based mostly his warmth defend developments on the evaluation of recovered extraterrestrial materials*, after he left the Nationwide Bureau of Requirements on the behest of President Truman.
In actuality, Condon was chosen to move the UFO examine so as to get the Air Pressure off the hook, the USAF being within the place whereby it needed to faux it was finding out UFOs, whereas behind the scenes and in secret the CIA was conducting the actual examine. Really, the CIA would make the most of the Condon Committee to gather UFO intell, whereas on the similar time promising the USAF it will finally debunk and dismiss UFOs, which was achieved in what grew to become generally known as “The Condon Report.”
In February 1967, Condon and 4 different scientists related along with his examine secretly met with CIA officers on the Nationwide Photographic Interpretation Heart (NPIC) in downtown Washington, D.C., the place U-2, SR-71, and satellite tv for pc spy pictures had been analyzed using state-of-the-art laptop enhancement strategies. After being briefed and given a dog-and-pony present by NPIC’s founder and director, Artwork Lundahl, who implored Condon’s group to acquire some good UFO pictures/movies for NPIC to check, Condon issued a nationwide enchantment via the media for residents to ship the Condon Committee UFO pictures/movies to help the purported “neutral” examine of UFOs, post-haste. In actuality, the photographic proof was being looked for the CIA to additional its secret examine of UFOs, on-going because the early Nineteen Fifties however with no mandate till late 1957.
In April 1967, a Condon Committee researcher, Dr. Gerald Rothberg of Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N.J., was dispatched to Harrisburg, Penn., to analyze an on-going native UFO flap. Accompanying Rothberg, disguised as analysis assistants, had been two covert CIA officers, certainly one of whom was Fred Durant, a extremely skilled and educated CIA Workplace of Scientific Intelligence officer who usually operated below a canopy of being a civilian scientist, lastly with Avco-Everett Analysis Lab, the place he was reputed to be conducting R&D with recovered E.T. materials*. Durant and his companion introduced with them a van load of high-tech detection gear equivalent to frequency scanners, plus superior photographic gear. The CIA males mounted a particular “all-sky” monitoring digital camera atop Harrisburg’s largest hospital, interviewed native civilian UFO witnesses, and met with the Harrisburg chapter of NICAP, then the nation’s largest and most influential civilian UFO group, headed by an anti-UFO secrecy activist, Maj. (Ret) USMC, Donald Keyhoe.
Condon’s most beneficial service to the CIA, nonetheless, started in 1968 when one other Condon Committee press launch invited Soviet Union scientists to take part in his purported “unbiased scientific examine” of UFOs. Condon was simply dangling bait for the CIA, attempting to get Soviet officers right into a “non-aggression” treaty on UFOs. Subsequently, Condon “researchers” — a few of whom had been covert CIA officers — met with Soviet Bloc scientists in Jap Europe, the place the treaty parlay was set in movement.
In accordance with data offered in confidence to the writer by the late Artwork Lundahl, founder and unique director of the CIA’s Nationwide Photographic Interpretation Heart (NPIC), the extremely proficient CIA heart the place U-2, SR-71, and satellite tv for pc recon pictures had been analyzed, in February 1969 a high-ranking Soviet KGB official flew to Washington, D. C., so as to meet with the CIA hierarchy and work out a type of non-aggression pact on UFOs whereby all sides would pledge to not falsely declare the UFOs hovering over the opposite’s delicate army installations had been secret gadgets which belonged to them. This pact was put in place so as to attempt to stop an unintentional nuclear alternate or battle triggered by UFO intrusions and
overflights.
Apparently, Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the CIA’s first director in 1947, was very vociferous in regards to the risks of unintentional nuclear battle triggered by UFO intrusions and overflights, both within the Soviet Union or America — to the purpose he allowed NICAP Director Don Keyhoe to publicly quote him warning as such whereas he served on Keyhoe’s NICAP Board of Governors. It is not identified if the Admiral ever discovered of the ultra-secret “non-aggression” pact between the Russians and Individuals, signed in 1969, however he should have breathed a sigh of reduction if he did.
In the long run, the Condon Report, launched in late 1969, was a traditional instance of CIA disinformation, for it not solely dismissed UFOs but in addition known as for the USAF to stop investigating them, irrespective of how involved about UFO intrusions witnesses could be.
Thereafter, UFO intelligence grew to become a matter for the CIA to secretly gather and analyze, though within the fall of 1975 UFOs had been buzzing USAF SAC B-52 bases and missile websites, hovering over and, within the Air Pressure’s personal phrases, “demonstrating a transparent intent towards nuclear weapons.”
Thereafter, UFO intelligence grew to become a matter for the CIA to secretly gather and analyze, though within the fall of 1975 UFOs had been buzzing USAF SAC B-52 bases and missile websites, hovering over and, within the Air Pressure’s personal phrases, “demonstrating a transparent intent towards nuclear weapons.”
However Fred Durant, writer of the CIA’s Robertson Panel Report in 1953, perceived the best hazard of UFO exercise was the general public and information media consideration given to them. Durant had outlined a program of debunking and downplaying UFOs so as to stop what he known as “a morbid nationwide psychology,” which could foster “a dangerous mistrust of duly constituted authority.”
The Condon Report sealed the lid on the coffin by which the reality about UFOs was buried. Nonetheless, the UFO or flying saucer misinformation battle between the U. S. and the us had been on–going since about 1950. The Soviets had suspected from the early days of saucer sightings in America that it was all a misinformation sport designed to scare them into believing the U. S. had developed some type of implausible secret aerial weapon (which the USAF tried to bolster by loudly proclaiming it was creating the AVRO disc** within the early Nineteen Fifties). Conversely, in America some prime scientific advisors to the Air Pressure [demurred] — equivalent to Dr. Anthony Mirarchi on the Air Pressure Geophysics Lab in Cambridge, Mass., which was receiving movies of UFOs shot at White Sands Missile Vary, N.M., shot by telescopic monitoring cameras; Mararchi knew the UFOs surveilling White Sands had been actual however was satisfied they had been an incredible technological development by the Soviets.
The Soviets had gone as far as to stage an “unintentional” publicity of a supposedly “High Secret” schematic of a (bogus) Soviet-built flying saucer to an American spy in Moscow in 1950. Then in 1953 the Russians tried to bolster this misinformation by planting a narrative in a Vienna, Austria, newspaper which claimed a flying saucer had crashed on Norway’s Spitzbergen Island, and it had Russian markings on inside components and matched virtually precisely the bogus schematic uncovered to an American spy in Moscow in 1950.
After Condon had buried the reality about UFOs with the examine he headed and the report it generated, all designed to get the Air drive off the hook and take UFO analysis underground the place the CIA would reply to no-one, the general public was solely partly persuaded; however academia and politicians swallowed it just like the proverbial hook, line, and sinker. Now, nonetheless, all method of nonsense grew to become a part of the general public discussion board on UFOs; however nonetheless, regardless of Fred Durant’s gloomy predictions, America didn’t disintegrate, the Soviet Union did.
The CIA’s motto, borrowed from the Bible, says: “Know ye the reality, and the reality shall set ye free.” Sadly, America has but to be let loose by studying the reality about UFOs being withheld by the CIA and different U. S. authorities businesses.
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* Word: The E.T. materials studied and talked about on this report has nothing in any respect to do with the Roswell, N. M., incident of 1947, which was in fact the particles from the crash of a cluster of six balloons launched June 14, 1947, from White Sands as a part of a High Secret experiment to develop a recoverable sniffer of atomic assessments within the Soviet Union. [LWB note: this being Zechel’s bias favoring the contentious Mogul balloon theory for the Roswellian crash-retrieval/cover-up case.]
** The AVRO disc was simply a part of a U.S. Air Pressure try and misinform/mislead the Soviets, which began about 1953, when the USAF let a contract to Canada’s A. V. Roe aviation firm purportedly to construct a flying saucer for just a few hundred thousand {dollars}. It was all a hoax designed to idiot the Russians and the American public! [LWB note: The U. S. Army also had a hand in that multi-$m R&D contract. Indeed, one of the two “AVROcar’s” prototypes became, back in the mid-sixties, an exhibit on the grounds of the U. S. Army Transportation Museum in Fort Eustis, Va.]
