(STARpod.org) -- To understand the UFO tales of spies, lies, and polygraph tape, one must first become familiar with the key players sitting at the spy game table, and learn why they are important to U.S. National Security.

Dr. Ron Pandolfi, a former CIA analyst recently with the ODNI, has a reputation for using "unconventional methods."

Dr. Pandolfi's prior use of "unconventional methods" (while investigating missile technology transfer to China during the Clinton administration) landed him in front of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and would eventually launch a Justice Department investigation into the actions of his superiors at CIA.

The drama, which was initiated by the explosion of a Chinese rocket leading to technical assistance provided by Hughes, was reported by several mainstream media outlets including the New York Times (for background see the on-line STARpod.org "Pandolfi file" archives from STARstream Research).

A few years before being called to testify in the closed SSCI hearings, Pandolfi received a call from a foreign national using the alias "Dr. Armen Victorian."

During a lengthy phone conversation "Dr. Victorian" grilled Pandolfi on his involvement with the official weirdness that had transpired at the DIA in the mid-1980s.

The DIA had been connecting their ultra-secret psychic spy research, which included plans to track Soviet submarines using "anomalous mental phenomena," to reports of unidentified flying objects.

At one point in the conversation Pandolfi mentions former New York Times journalist Howard Blum and his book OUT THERE.

Blum's narrative was built around his exposure of a secret government "UFO Working Group."

In the recorded conversation obtained by STARstream Research, Pandolfi nonchalantly tells "Dr. Victorian" that "I was a member of that working group."

(An excerpt of Pandolfi discussing the working group is available to download as an MP3 file at the STARpod.org website.)

Pandolfi goes on to discuss numerous points of interest to UFO researchers, noting that his own interest in the UFO subject should not be interpreted as representing official CIA involvement.

Pandolfi's most recently confirmed position was with the MASINT Committee of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as witnessed by an open MITRE JASON study initiated by Pandolfi from his DIA based office.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is the highest publicly acknowledged intelligence authority in the United States government. The President of the United States is briefed by the Director of National Intelligence, a job formerly handled by the Director of Central Intelligence.

JASON is a group of elite scientific experts providing consultation services to the government.

The JASON study initiated by Pandolfi debunked a Chinese-American research collaboration into the theory and application of "high frequency gravity waves" (HFGW) for communication and surveillance.

Some theories of HFGW are loosely related to the esoteric research of UFO propulsion systems, including the so-called Podkletnov effect, named after the Russian experimentalist who briefly dazzled the aerospace industry, including NASA, with claims of antigravity effects and gravity-like force beams.

Many of Pandolfi's former CIA associates have moved into important private sector homeland security related positions, including Dr. Ruth David, Dr. John Gannon, and Pandolfi's former mentor, Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green.

David, Gannon, and Green share membership on the DIA National Academy of Science "Technology Insight Gauge Evaluate and Review" TIGER committee -- the same committee alleged to have a "UFO" team, according to an email forwarded to me by Dr. Jack Sarfatti, a physicist based in San Francisco.

The originator of the email forwarded by Sarfatti was someone named Mark, who wrote:

"Ron P told me that you very likely know the names of all the members of the National Academy of Science "UFO" TIGER team. If this is true, could you please tell me who they are. I have come up with something that he wants briefed to them."

The JASON HFGW study notes:

"We are especially grateful to Ronald Pandolfi and Mark Pesses of ODNI for their continued help in arranging briefers and documentation."

Sarfatti claims to have been present at the Pandolfi MITRE JASON briefings.

Pandolfi's response to my inquiry about Sarfatti's contribution was typically ambiguous.

"It is up to Jack [Sarfatti] whether to mention his participation in the JASON meeting, but I do not recall Jack bringing up Chiao's work. Perhaps he mentioned it during breaks or lunch."

Dr. Raymond Chiao, a respected expert on quantum physics including high frequency gravity wave research, was notably missing from the MITRE JASON study.

The MITRE JASON study was released to the public in October of 2008.

When the MITRE JASON study was released I forwarded the link to Dr. Chiao for his comments.

Dr. Chiao responded to my email and cc his response to several persons in the government, including email addresses at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Dr. Chiao's HFGW work is completely independent of the research debunked by the MITRE JASON report.

I first blogged about the MITRE HFGW study a year before it was released and distributed to the public by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), with input from emails and multiple sources including Dan Smith.

A year later the release of the JASON report provided confirmation of my own sources' information.

It is worth noting that Pandolfi's move from CIA to the MASINT Committee was first reported (correctly) by Dan Smith at his Best Possible World blog, a strange mixture of "end of the world" philosophy, loosely concealed spy talk, and "exopolitics" (the movement by certain groups to politicize the expose' of the government's alleged role in concealing knowledge of alien visitations from the public, as well as claimed technological benefits from the alleged contact).

Dan Smith is the son of Dan Throop Smith, who was President Eisenhower's tax advisor.

Smith remains a friend of Dr. Pandolfi, and often "interprets" Pandolfi's activities at his blog, and more recently at the Internet's "Open Minds Forum."

Smith often recounts the tale of his first encounters with Pandolfi, when Ron allegedly told Smith he was "going to Los Alamos to see the aliens."

The reemergence of extraterrestrial intelligence antics began shortly after 9/11.

I first reported on Kit Green, Hal Puthoff, and Ron Pandolfi's UFO interests crossing paths with the DIA TIGER Committee in early 2006.

Later that same year accusations of DIA connections to UFO tales on the Internet were squarely aimed at Dr. John Gannon of the TIGER committee, and this appears to have triggered another unconventional response from Dr. Pandolfi.

Dr. Gannon is the highly respected former CIA Director for Intelligence, who was also involved in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Gannon is currently with defense contractor BAE Systems, the parent of another UFO propulsion effort called Project Greenglow.

Pandolfi has since moved on to another government office, based upon reports from both Dan Smith and Mark Pesses of the ODNI MASINT. His new assignment remains unknown.

The release of the MITRE JASON study appears intended to be an officially sanctioned "outing" of Pandolfi. Names of active government officials are often redacted from official documents.

When I was first made aware of Dr. Pandolfi's position at ODNI, Pandolfi requested that I remove his association with DIA and MASINT from one of my articles.

In addition to the testimony provided by Smith, an email was forwarded to me from Pandolfi confirming that he was working out of an office operated by the DIA. Some email messages sent by Pandolfi appeared to have originated from DIA servers.

In 2006, an acting source to STARstream Research (STARpod.org) from the United Kingdom visited with Smith, Ron Pandolfi and Pandolfi's wife Susan, who also works for MITRE.

Pandolfi later reported to us that our source, the foreign national, had asked "inappropriate questions" about his "real work."

Both our source and Mr. Dan Smith deny this.

One possibly sensitive topic of conversation may have been the CIA's 1970s Glomar recovery operation. Detailed information concerning the Glomar "Project Jennifer" recovery remains a closely held secret.

According to Mr. Smith, as a young college student Pandolfi was visited by "a couple of suits" when he questioned the true nature of the Glomar operation, based upon lab analysis of alleged Glomar samples provided by Pandolfi's uncle.

According to his (unclassified) CV, the former CIA Senior Analyst Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green was also involved in the Glomar Explorer Project.

The Glomar Explorer was designed to covertly recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the ocean floor.

Green's CV tells of his past role at CIA:

"Reporting to the Director of the Agency, Dr. Green was the Senior Division Analyst with the Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence ... His medical specialty is forensic medicine and toxicology, and his doctoral work in neurophysiology concerned human biochemical functioning of the brain ... Dr. Green has also been responsible for evaluations of other forensic issues such as the use of novel techniques for assassination by Soviet and Bulgarian services ..."

The on-line version of one episode of the PBS Series "Secrets of the Dead" tells the story of how Dr. Green solved the "umbrella assassination" mystery.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/case_umbrella/interview.html

Dr. Green was also at the center of CIA sponsored research (conducted at the Stanford Research Institute) to develop psychic intelligence collection against the Soviet Union.

A key researcher at SRI was Dr. Hal Puthoff, whose private institute focuses on UFO-related exotic energy production.

While at SRI, Puthoff and his associates were funded by various government agencies with the goal of developing an operational "psychic spy" unit within the Intelligence Community. That goal was effectively reached during the 1980s, and managed by the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency).

The existence of the DIA umbrella for paranormal research was illegally reported in a graphic chart broadcast over national television, and presumably passed to Russia via satellite hook-up, during the 1988 TV special "UFO Cover-up Live."

A TOP SECRET document dated 1 May 1986, released by the CIA in 2003, and signed by Leonard H. Perroots, Lt. General, USAF, Director, to the Deputy Secretary of Defense states:

"Initial applications will be limited to tasks where psychoenergetics [a generic term for various psychic skills] data complement information from other intelligence collection sources ... Psychoenergetics data may also have potential in a tip-off role (e.g. predict new terrorist activity)."

Shortly after 9/11 British author Jon Ronson interviewed psychic superstar Uri Geller in London. According to Ronson, Uri Geller hinted that he had been "reactivated" to use his psychic skills in the war on terror. When Ronson pushed Geller for a name, Geller told him the man who had recalled his talents for espionage was named "Ron."

Ronson's search for the mysterious "Ron" is told in his book THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, soon to be released in a fictionalized film adaptation starring George Clooney.

Perroots, then acting Director of the DIA, continued:

"An Intelligence Community Task Coordinating Group has been established to identify potential tasks for consideration in future SUN STREAK [codename for this DIA program] operations. Members of this group are senior executives from DIA, CIA, AIA, AF/IN, DNI, C3I and NSA."

This information was "Above Top Secret" in the sense that it was highly compartmentalized which limited access on a strict "need to know" basis.

The TOP SECRET document clearly spells out involvement by a major segment of the U.S. Intelligence Community, including CIA and NSA.

In 1995 the CIA was handed control of the DIA program which effectively killed the DIA psychic operations. Some individuals, including Commander L.R. Bremseth of the United States Navy, have speculated that CIA's killing of psychic warfare operations was meant for public consumption, and that the real programs were taken deeper into the black.

The fact that so much of the DIA program had been exposed by 1995 lends some support to this idea.

As for Dr. Green, according to his CV, he left the CIA officially in March of 1985, prior to the operational unit and the IC Task Coordinating Group. However, Green was a "Member of the Army Science Board 1985-1995" and continues to consult on issues of national security.

The threads connecting Pandolfi, Green, Puthoff and the SRI psychic research, and the allegations concerning our primary source asking "inappropriate questions" superficially converge on the Glomar recovery effort, a UFO mystery reported by a key DIA psychic, and the mysterious sinking of the Soviet K-129 nuclear submarine.

According to some rumored accounts, Ingo Swann, the man responsible for developing the methodology used by DIA's psychic spies, may have identified a saucer shaped UFO attacking the Soviet K-129 submarine.

The K-129 has been at the center of numerous conspiracies, the least of which is the actual CIA recovery of parts of the vessel. One conspiracy theory places the K-129 as ready to launch a nuclear armed missile at the United States as part of a false flag operation.

UFOs are often reported near government nuclear weapons facilities. The sinking of the K-129 by a flying saucer at the key moment just prior to unleashing nuclear destruction against the United States fits neatly into the ever-expanding UFO mythology of extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs.

It would soon be apparent that the "extraterrestrial presence" was tasking members of the terrestrial-based AVIARY UFO group to spread a mind-seducing "alien virus" over the Internet.

Washington D.C. was the target of this "Avian Viral Invasion" and the Office of the President of the United States was in sight.

To be continued in part eleven: FORBIDDEN TOPICS

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