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Majestic-12 o Majic12 (talvolta scritto semplicemente MJ-12, MJ-XII, Majestic Trust) è il nome in codice di una ipotetica organizzazione segreta che sarebbe stata costituita nel 1947 per ordine del presidente degli Stati Uniti Harry S. Truman.
Questa ipotetica commissione (formata da scienziati, militari, e dirigenti governativi di massimo livello) avrebbe un ruolo importante nelle diffuse "teorie del complotto" secondo cui i governi tengono nascoste informazioni sugli UFO.

Lo scopo
Secondo i sostenitori della sua esistenza, lo scopo di questa organizzazione sarebbe stata l'investigazione sulle attività degliUFO, concretizzatasi con l'incidente del luglio 1947, durante il quale, uno di essi sarebbe precipitato a Roswell, una località delNew Mexico (il cosiddetto Incidente di Roswell). Questa presunta organizzazione avrebbe avuto un ruolo importante nella cosiddetta UFO conspiracy, un'operazione di insabbiamento dell'incidente ispirata dal governo statunitense.
La documentazione controversa
A sostegno dell'esistenza del gruppo è indicata una serie di documenti controversi emersi per la prima volta nel 1984, e subito al centro di un acceso dibattito. I documenti affermano che il Majestic 12 venne creato per ordine del presidente Truman, il 24 settembre del 1947, su consiglio di Vannevar Bush e del Segretario alla Difesa James Forrestal.[1], Bush sarebbe stato eletto alla direzione del gruppo. Ecco il testo originale, tradotto in italiano, della lettera di accompagnamento di Truman a Forrestal.

« Top secret
Casa Bianca - Washington
24 settembre 1947

Memorandum per il Segretario
Caro Segretario Forrestal,
come dalla nostra recente conversazione su questo argomento, con la presente Lei è autorizzato a procedere con la dovuta celerità e discrezione circa il Suo impegno. In futuro ci si riferirà a proposito solo come «Operazione Majestic-12». Continua a starmi a cuore il fatto che ogni futura considerazione relativa all'ultima disposizione su questa materia resti solamente nell'ambito dell'Ufficio del Presidente seguendo le appropriate discussioni con Lei, il dottor Bush e il direttore della CIA.
Harry Truman »

La smentita degli organi ufficiali
L'esistenza di tale organizzazione venne smentita da alcune agenzie governative statunitensi, affermando che questi documenti erano frutto di un imbroglio. Secondo un'indagine condotta dall'FBI i documenti erano contraffatti con firme false, opinione confermata anche dall'AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigation) e dall'ufficio di controspionaggio dell'US Air Force. Le opinioni tra gli ufologi erano controverse.

Altri documenti falsi
Nel 1985 vennero ritrovati altri documenti presso il National Archives and Record Administration (Archivio nazionale dell'amministrazione), con date in calce risalenti al 1954. Anche per questi, l'autenticità è controversa. Notare che tali documenti in questione erano disponibili in internet, persino sul sito dell'FBI e marchiati "Bogus" ("Falsi").
Da quando emersero i primi documenti sul'MJ-12, seguirono centinaia di pagine di altri documenti analoghi, tutti controversi. È stato dimostrato che alcuni di essi erano senza ombra di dubbio falsi, di solito riscritti sulla falsariga di altri privi di qualsiasi relazione con il governo statunitense.
I principali documenti sull'MJ-12 sono una prolissa serie di manuali, scritti a macchina, datati 1954. Descrivevano principalmente il ritrovamento di rottami di una presunta astronave e di corpi di alieni. L'obiezione alla loro autenticità si concentra su una questione di stile e di alcuni anacronismi storici.

I documenti autentici
Nel 1978, vennero alla luce alcuni documenti canadesi, ritenuti autentici risalenti al 1950 e al 1951[2]. Questi menzionano l'esistenza di studi strettamente confidenziali sugli Ufo, di un gruppo operante all'interno del Pentagono presso lo US Research and Development Board, con a capo proprio Vannevar Bush. Tuttavia il nome dell'organizzazione non viene menzionato, ma questi documenti sono considerati la più autorevole evidenza che un gruppo di questo genere sia veramente esistito. Vi sono inoltre diverse testimonianze di alcuni scienziati coinvolti nel progetto.

NSC 5412/2 Special Group
Talvolta l'MJ-12 è associato dalla recente letteratura cospirativa, al segretissimo NSC 5412/2 Special Group, creato, si sostiene, dal presidente Dwight Eisenhower nel 1954, gruppo la cui documentazione è verificabile ed autentica. Tale struttura tuttavia non avrebbe avuto esclusivamente specifici compiti di ricerca nel campo ufologico (è curioso notare che il presunto MJ-12 creato nel 1947 avesse in comune con questa organizzazione, il numero 12) e come tutti i più importanti centri di intelligence formatisi durante la Guerra Fredda, avrebbe avute le autorizzazioni previste per le questioni riguardanti la sicurezza nazionale. La segretezza di questa organizzazione sarebbe stata così ristretta che solo il presidente ne era informato.

Storia
La fonte principale a sostegno dell'ipotesi dell'esistenza del MJ-12 è una serie di documenti inviati ad un anonimo ufologo nel 1982. La primissima menzione dell'MJ-12 risalirebbe tuttavia a un documento consegnato nel 1980 a Paul Bennewitz in risposta ad una campagna di disinformazione lanciata contro di lui, dopo che aveva frainteso, o diffuso, un progetto segreto dell'Air Force nel quale si parlava di attività Ufo sulla Terra. Dato che la maggioranza delle informazioni che Bennewitz riceveva erano false, si preoccupò immediatamente di verificare l'autenticità di tale documento.
Una frase di tale documento affermava: «Posizione ufficiale del governo degli Stati Uniti: il Progetto Acquario è (sic) ancora classificato TOP SECRET ; non si autorizza alcuna diffusione esterna, l'accesso è limitato all' "MJ DODICI"».
Greg Bishop scrive: «Fu la prima volta, verso la fine del 1980, che un documento faceva trapelare il sospetto sull'esistenza di un'organizzazione governativa chiamata 'MJ DODICI', in grado di controllare le informazioni sugli UFO». Ovviamente, nessuno sospettava a quel tempo l'enorme impatto che tale rivelazione avrebbe avuto sull'ufologia degli anni 80 e 90, divenendone di fatto la colonna portante per le ricerche future.

Pubblicazione del caso
La vicenda MJ-12 fu resa pubblica nel 1984 (Susan Wright afferma che il primo documento riportava la data del 1982, ma tutte le altre testimonianze confermano la data del 1984). Il produttore televisivo e ufologo amatoriale Jamie Shandera ricevette per posta un filmato da un mittente anonimo in cui erano presentati due documenti: il primo, attribuito a Harry Truman, di autorizzazione alla formazione di una commissione chiamata MJ 12 per la valutazione dell'evento di Roswell del 1947; il secondo, del 1952 era attribuito all'MJ-12 come riassunto informativo per il neo-presidente Eisenhower in cui si descrivevano le investigazioni e l'occultamento dell'incidente della «nave spaziale aliena» di Roswell. Tutti i presunti membri dell'MJ-12 erano militari e scienziati di altissimo livello e tutti, (eccetto Edward Teller) morirono prima della diffusione del primo documento.

Elenco dei presunti membri del Majestic-12
Contrammiraglio Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
Vannevar Bush
James Forrestal (sostituito dopo la sua morte dal Generale Walter Bedell Smith)
Nathan Twining
Generale Hoyt Vandenberg
Detlev Bronk
Jerome Hunsaker
Contrammiraglio Sidney Souers
Gordon Gray
Donald Menzel
Generale Maggiore Robert Montague
Lloyd Berkner
(Quattro di queste persone sono state menzionate in documenti che trattavano attività Ufo: Menzel ha scritto diversi libri di smentita; Hollenkoetter fu un membro del NICAP, mentre Twining e Vandenberg sovraintendevano al primo gruppo investigativo dell'Air Force chimato Project Sign.

La trasmissione televisiva
Shandera fu il primo a trasmettere nel suo documentario televisivo The UFO Experience[5] i documenti sull'MJ-12. Tuttavia, questa rivelazione rimase un evento marginale in campo ufologico, fino alla pubblicazione del libro di Timothty Good Above Top Secret nel 1988. Anche il Good affermò di aver ricevuto foto e documenti da un mittente anonimo.
La stessa Fbi indagò su tali documenti e giunse alla conclusione che fossero "Top Secret", e che qualcuno li aveva illecitamente diffusi. Da quel momento sono venuti alla luce altri documenti dall'autenticità altrettanto controversa. Susan Wright ipotizzò che fossero dei falsi e che siano stati il frutto di operazioni di disinformazione, senza conoscerne l'origine. Altri hanno speculato che la sigla, MJ-12, sia un altro nome per identificare in realtà il gruppo Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, un'organizzazione militare attiva per un decennio dal 1940 al 1950.

Argomenti a favore
Il National Archives contiene un documento sull'MJ-12, interpretato come la prova più evidente della sua autenticità: «Promemoria per il Generale Twinings, da Robert Cutler, Assistente Speciale del Presidente, Soggetto: "NSC/MJ-12 Progetto Studi Speciali», datato 14 luglio 1954. La pagina uno del promemoria riferisce di un incontro avuto luogo il 16 luglio dello stesso anno. Il memorandum non identifica l'organizzazione MJ-12 o lo scopo dell'incontro (vedi collegamenti). Tuttavia, sono state avanzate delle ipotesi contro l'autenticità di questo documento; vedi sotto.
In riferimento ad un lavoro di Good, C.D.B. Bryan parla dell'esistenza di un promemoria segreto, scritto dall'ingegnere radio canadese Wilbert B. Smith, da lungo tempo dipendente del Dipartimento dei Trasporti Canadesi. Il promemoria, datato 21 novembre 1950, sarebbe una raccomandazione al governo Canadese di istituire investigazioni formali (il "Project Magnet") sugli ufo. A margine della vicenda, Smith scrisse che alcuni "delatori", avrebbero rivelato che il governo degli Stati Uniti considerava le investigazioni ufologiche come segrete e confindenziali, e che «tutti gli sforzi della ricerca andavano concentrati in un piccolo gruppo, guarda caso diretti dal Dr. Vannevar Bush»" (Bryan, 186). Good cocludeva che questi documenti erano la prova più importante in favore dell'esistenza dell'MJ-12; i documenti svelati da Smith furono autenticati dal governo Canadese.
Nonostante non avesse mai usato la sigla "MJ 12", il Generale di Brigata Arthur E. Exon (Ufficiale Comandante della Wright Patterson Air Force Base, riporta dell'esistenza (dal 1964 al 1966), di un gruppo di ufficiali e scienziati di altissimo livello in qualche modo coinvolti nello studio degli Ufo: il soprannome di tale gruppo era "Unholy Thirteen", i "Terribili Tredici".
Il ricercatore di Ufo e paranormale Ethan A. Blight, ha presentato una serie di controprove e di argomenti contro le critiche ai documenti, specialmente contro quelli diffuse dal debunkerPhilip J.Klass.
Analogamente, il fisico nucleare Stanton Friedman ha presentato una serie di argomenti contro l'autenticità dei promemoria. Per esempio, Philip J. Klass suggerisce che i promemoria di Cutler/Twining fossero dei falsi, dato che erano dattilografati in caratteri Pica, mentre Klass invece suggerisce che i documenti autentici prodotti dalla Casa Bianca erano scritti solo in caratteri Ellite. Klass ha scommesso 100$ per ogni esempio di font Pica genuino prodotto dalla Casa Bianca. Friedman, rispose, come scrisse Speiser nello stesso articolo citato sopra: «Friedman fornì, non poche ma almeno 20 esemplari , più di quanto fosse necessario per vincere il premio» (Klass pagò la scommessa 1000$). È opinione di Spier che la sfida sia stata accuratamente predisposta.

Argomenti contro
Per ricapitolare, i documenti che menzionano l'MJ-12 sono :
Documento di istruzioni: Operazione Majestic Dodici, datato "18 novembre, 1952", e presumibilmente scritto dal neoletto presidente Eisenhower. Consiste di sette pagine e otto allegati, ma solo uno era incluso. Questo documento era visibile su di un filmato ricevuto da Shandera.
Una lettera inviata dal presidente Truman al Segratario della Difesa Forrestal, datata 26 settembre 1947. In questa lettera vi era un allegato di un documento di istruzioni. Anche questo era visibile sul filmato di Shendera.
Una lettera dall'assistente del presidente Robert Cutler al Generale Nathan Twining, capo di stato maggiore dell'esercito americano, datato 14 luglio 1954 ; allegato trovato da Moore e Shandra nel National Archives dopo la divulgazione dei due documenti citati nei punti 1. e 2. Menziona un presunto incontro avvenuto il 16 luglio 1954 per discutere il Progetto Studi Speciali NSC/MJ-12".
Argomenti che smentiscono l'autenticità dei documenti riguardanti l'MJ-12 :
Anche L'FBI ha investigato, giungendo rapidamente alla conclusione che i documenti sono dei falsi. L'FBI ha contattato la U.S. Air Force, chiedendo se l'MJ-12 fosse mai esistita. L'Air Force, rispose, che nessun comitato era stato autorizzato, e mai nessuno aveva formato un gruppo con questo nome. L'FBI pertanto concluse : "Le investigazioni hanno portato alla conclusione che i documenti in questione sono solo un falso".
Critiche sono state mosse a causa della sospetta provinienza dei documenti. Shendera e Good, hanno entrambi ricevuto i documenti da un mittente anonimo, e molti altri documenti riguardanti l'MJ-12 sono stati ottenuti in analoghe circostanze.
Nonostante il Good inizialmente credesse che i documenti fossero autentici, da allora, in accordo con Philip Klass, espresse "il sospetto che i nuovi ... documenti, a causa di alcune anomalie nel loro contenuto ..."
Il ricercatore UFO Jerome Clark cita i documenti sull'MJ-12 nella sezione "Scherzi". Nel suo libro The UFO Book, è vigorosamente a favore dell'interpretazione di uno scherzo. Inoltre nota allora, che solo una "manciata" di ufologi supporta l'autenticità dei documenti.
Un'ulteriore evidenza, -- che mostra argomenti contro l'appartenenza di Menzel all'MJ-12 -- e del 1949 e riporta la testimonianza dello stesso Menzel di un avvistamento UFO. Questo rapporto, pubblicamente sconosciuto per trentanni, è la forte evidenza contro il coinvolgimento di Menzel nell'MJ-12. Se veramente Menzel fosse stato informato fin dal 1947 delle informazioni segrete riguardo agli UFO, è plausibile che non avesse motivi per inviare un rapporto UFO "confindenziale" due anni più tardi, quando fu testimone di luci nel cielo, da lui descritte come "eccezionali". Inoltre il rapporto di Menzel non fa menzione di un gruppo chiamato MJ-12.
Riguardo al promemoria di Cutler, Jin Speiser scrive : "Il presunto autore del promemoria, Robert Cutler non era presente nel paese, quando questi furono dattilografati. Indagini più approfondite fecero emergere che gli assitenti di Cutler, James Lay e Patrick Coyne, ripetutamente inviavano promemoria con il nome di Cutler, il che dimostra con i fatti che i promemoria (del cui originale rimane solo la copia carbone) sono di fatto privi di firma."

Documenti Informativi e lettera di Truman
Sono stati individuati alcuni particolari, che potrebbero dimostrare la falsità di tali documenti informativi:
La macchina da scrivere usata :
La macchina da scrivere usata per dattilografare la lettera di Truman è una Smith Corona un modello che non esisteva fino al 1962 - quindici anni dopo il presumibile scritto.
Il nastro della macchina da scrivere era esaurito, e i tasti erano sporchi. I documenti di Truman del periodo riconosciuti come autentici, usavano nastri nuovi e tasti puliti.

La firma di Truman
La firma di Harry Truman della presunta lettera a Forrestal è identica a una riconosciuta autentica su di una lettera inviata a Vannevar Bush il 1 ottobre 1947. La cifra "uno" sul documento informativo è un 3-4% più grande e in neretto, ma questo è spigabile dal fatto che le fotocopie non riproducono gli spessori esattamente nella stessa dimensione. Coincidono quando la dimensione è corretta e sono sovrapponibili.
Entrambe le firme mostrano un errore nel momento in cui la penna iniza a scrivere la lettera "H".
La lettera "T" nella parola "Ottobre", interseca la lettera "s" finale in "Sincerly yours". Lo stesso punto sulla lettera di Forrestal è leggermente più sottile, come se l'intersezione con la "s" sia stata modificata con il bianchetto o fotocopiata.
Questo mostra che la firma autentica di Truman è stata copiata falsificandola dalla lettera di Bush a Forrestal.
Il formato della data del nome nel documento informativo:
Le date possiedono un virgola dopo il mese, p.e. "18 November, 1952". La virgola non viene mai usata dopo il mese. Tale errore è presente in ogni data del documento informativo.
I giorni del mese aventi una cifra singola sono preceduti da uno zero . p.e "01 August". Questa non era una pratica comune in vigore presso la burocrazia militare del tempo. Tutti i giorni del mese presenti sul documenti presenta questo errore.
Non si conoscono lettere o promemoria autentici provenienti da Hillenkoetter che abbiano virgole fuori posto, e nessuna con zeri precedenti una cifra singola.
Tutte le lettere e i promemoria autentici di Hillenkoetter sono dattilografati con "R.H. Hillenkoetter", mentre il documento informativo è dattilografato con "Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter".

Altre prove
La frase "TOP SECRET/MAJIC EYES ONLY", è stata impressa nel documento mediante un timbro a caratteri mobili, piuttosto insolito nella documentazione classificata come confidenziale. La lettera "I" è leggermente sollevata.
Gli autentici documenti Top Secret possiedono una numerazione del tipo : "Page __ of __ pages". Il documento informativo ne è privo.
L'avvertimento di evitare le copie non coincide con la stessa formulazione posta nei documenti redatti nel periodo del 1952.
Il documento usa la parola "media", invece di "press", "extra-terrestial" invece di "alien", e "impacted" come verbo -- queste parole non erano di uso comune nel 1952, ma solo verso la fine degli anni 60.
James Mosley, che conosceva personalmente Menzel ma non Hillenkoetter, presunti membro dell' MJ-12, ha dichiarato che Menzel e Hillenkoetter non si conoscevano.
Ricerca di documentazione. Oltre al promemoria di Cutler, non sono stati trovati altri documenti che menzionano l'MJ-12
Il National Archives non ha individuato nessuna documentazione dell'incontro NSC del 16 luglio 1954. Una ricerca fra tutta la documentazione di incontri dell'NSC non fa menzione al gruppo MJ-12 o Majestic.
Presso un reparto del National Archives è stata cercata documentazione riguardante l'NSC ma non è stato trovato nulla che riguardasse l'MJ-12 o Majestic.
Si può notare che alcuni dettagli riportati in questo elenco, sono così grossolani da far emergere il sospetto che tali documenti siano stati creati proprio per essere facilmente smascherati. Il che fa pensare ad un'operazione di debunking volta a spostare l'attenzione proprio su tali documenti.

Il promemoria di Cutler
Il NARA ha fornito una lista dettagliata dei problemi riguardanti i dubbi sollevati riguardo all'autenticità dei promemoria di Cutler :
Il documento era posizionato nel Record Group 341", "Entry 267". La serie autentica veniva archiviat mediante un numero di registro Top Secret. Questo promemoria non evidenzia tale numero.
Il promemoria è schedato nella cartella T4-1846. Non vi sono altri documenti che riguardino "NSC/MJ-12"
Ricercatori dello staff del National Archive hanno cercato negli schedari del Segretario della Difesa, il Joint Chiefs of Staff, il quartier generale della U.S. Air Force e in altri schedari. Non sono state trovate altre informazioni riguardo all'MJ-12.
Gli inquirenti della U.S. Air Force, del Joint Chief of Staff, e del National Security Council non sono riusciti a produrre ulteriori informazioni.
L'ufficio per La Libertà di Informazione del National Security Council informa il National Archives che "Informazioni Confidenziali Top Secret" sono state contrassegnate con la sigla National Security Council a partire dall'amministrazione Nixon. La Eisenhower Administration Library ha confermato questo particolare, rilevando che tale contrassegno non era usato durante la sua amministrazione.
Il documento in questione non riporta intestazioni governative ufficiali o filigrana. Gli specialisti di conservazione dei documenti del NARA hanno esaminato la carta del documento verificando che era una copia dettata e scritta a macchina ( e non una copia carbone), ma su carta velina. La libreria Eisenhower ha esaminato una serie di documenti autentici della collezione di Cutler. Tutti gli esempi esaminati creati da Mr. Cutler, quando era in servizio presso lo staff NSC, sono contrassegnati da un' aquila e su carta di buona qualità, mentre le copie carbone in velina possono anche non averlo del tutto. Molti documenti inviati dall' NSC erano preparati su carta intestata della Casa Bianca. Per un breve periodo, quando Mr. Cutler lasciò l'NSC, le sue copie carbone furono compilate su "carta velina prestige".
Il National Archives searched e l'Official Meeting Minute Files Della National Security Council non hanno trovato registrazioni di un incontro dell'NSC avvenuto il 16 luglio 1954. Anche una completa ricerca presso l'NSC Meeting Minutes nelle registrazioni del Luglio 1954 non ha rilevato riferimenti al MJ-12 o al Majestic.
I Dipartimenti di Giustizia, Fiscale e Sociale, hanno eseguito indagini negli schedari dell'NSC e non hanno trovato nulla riguardo a : MJ-12, Majestic, UFO, oggetti volanti, o dischi volanti.
La NAJA ha trovato un promemoria dal titolo : "Incontro Speciale del 16 luglio 1954", nel quale si richimava la necessità da parte dei membri dell'NSC di attivarsi alla difesa civile in esercizio a partire da quella data.
La Libreria Eisenhower specifica, in una lettara inviata al Military Reference Branch, datata 16 luglio 1987: «L'agenda appuntamenti del presidente Eisenhower non contiene nessuna nota relativa ad un incontro speciale avvenuto il 16 luglio 1954, il quale avrebbe dovuto includere un'informativa sull'MJ-12. Persino quando il Presidente aveva incontri, per così dire, 'ufficiosi', la sua agenda indicava la data e l'ora dell'appuntamente e i partecipanti»; «L'ufficio di Declassificazione del National Security Council ci ha informati che nessuna azione è stata presa su documenti o promemoria in relazione a tale presunto progetto ...». Robert Cutler, alle dipendenze del Presidente Eisenhower, visitò una installazione militare d'oltremare il giorno della suo presumibile coinvolgimento con i promemoria, il giorno 14 luglio, 1954. I diari dell'Amministrazione Eisenhower contengono i promemoria di Cutler dopo il ritorno dal suo viaggio. Il promemoria è datato 20 luglio 1954 e riferisce della visita di Cutler alle installazione Europee e del Nord Africa tra il 3 e il 15 luglio 1954. Inoltre, all'interno dello staff dell'NSC vi è un promemoria datato 3 luglio 1954, inviato da Cutler ai suoi due subordinati, James S. Ia e J. Patrick Cone, che informa come avrebbero dovuto gestire l'amministrazione dell'NSC durante la sua assenza.

MJ-12 nella successiva teoria della cospirazione
In breve tempo, dopo la sua rivelazione, l'MJ-12 venne utilizzato per giustificare altre presunte cospirazioni; Nei lavori di Milton William Cooper, e soprattutto nel libro: Behold A Pale Horse, è l'elemento chiave che, al di la delle prove, induce nel lettore, la sensazione che tutta la società sia permeata da cospirazioni, elemento che ha generato forti critiche. Alcuni di queste ultime versioni insistono che la "M" in "MJ-12" non significhi "Majestic", ma "Majoritiy". Molte teorie affermano che tale organizzazione sia ancora attiva.
Secondo la testimonianza di Dan Burish, si crede che il Majestic-12 sia oggi di fatto un gruppo che lavora per il Commitee of the Majority , un'organizzazione massonica che coordina i contatti con alieni presenti sulla terra, e le operazioni volte a formare un Nuovo Ordine Mondiale. Secondo questa teoria, l'MJ-12 è responsabile di tutte le operazioni scientifiche svolte nell'Area 51 a Dulce, New Mexico, e presso l'installazione di Frenchmman's Mountain. La teoria della cospirazione suggerisce inoltre che l'MJ-12 abbia un potere enorme, e che stia progettando la creazione di un governo mondiale. Gli scettici fanno notare che se persino l'esistenza del MJ-12 è dubbia, ovviamente lo è gran parte della cospirazione. Sempre in accordo con tali teorie, il Majestic 12 fu creato per una serie di "modesti" obiettivi : coprire le attività sulla Terra degli alieni, accordarsi con loro per ottenere tecnologia in cambio di cavie umane per test biologici.

L'MJ-12 ai giorni nostri
Molte teorie affermano che l'MJ-12 sia tutt'ora attivo. Il ricercatore ufologico Bill Hamilton ritiene di aver identificato gli attuali membri dell'organizzazione. Secondo questo ricercatore Gordon Novel è un individuo coinvolto in diverse cospirazioni della CIA : nel Watergate e nell'investigazione di Jim Garrison sull'assassinio del presidente degli Stati Uniti J.F. Kennedy.
Siccome il presidente Kennedy aveva l'obbiettivo di porre termine al cover-up sull'organizzazione, Gordon Novel molto probabilmente venne coinvolto nel suo assassinio. Sempre secondo questo ricercatore, Novel è un abile manipolatore di eventi il cui scopo è di venire in possesso di tecnologia aliena per mantenere e aumentare il proprio potere. Inoltre, per poter finanziare gli enormi costi per la ricerca e la sicurezza, Novel si sarebbe macchiato di diversi assassini legati al traffico di stupefacenti.
Erick Walker è un altro testimone che confermerebbe l'attuale esistenza dell' MJ-12 Quando venne contattato, Walker affermò che sapeva della sua esistenza fin dalla sua formazione nel lontano 1947. Come per Novel, in un'intervista rilasciata verso la fine del 1990 Walker affermò che l'organizzazione era composta principalmente da americani ma anche da stranieri. Secondo le sue affermazioni questi individui sono un gruppo di persone molto elitario, ma ripetutamente cercò di scoraggiare l'intervistatore nel saperne di più, in quanto non vi erano ulteriori possibilità per approfondire l'argomento.
Secondo un articolo pubblicato dal DNA Magazine del 6 luglio, 2006, e una serie di interviste del Dr. Dan Burish, ( un presunto impiegato governativo da più di 20 anni all'interno dell'MJ-12 ) al programma Jeff Rense Radio del 6 luglio e del 13 luglio 2006, i presunti membri direttivi dell'MJ-12 sono :

1: Vice Ammiraglio John M. McConnell --- Ex. direttore della NSA, dal Gennaio 2007 Direttore del National Intelligence (DNI),
2: Richard B. Cheney --- Vice presidente degli Stati Uniti sotto la presidenza di Bush.
3: Porter Goss --- Ex. direttore della DCI ( Director of Central Intelligence)
4: Ammiraglio Bobby Ray Inman --- Ex. direttore della NSA e della Naval Intelligence, e vice direttore della CIA e della DIA.
5: Henry Alfred Kissinger --- Ex. Consigliere per la Sicurezza Nazionale e Segretario di Stato sotto la presidenza Nixon
6: Zbigniew Brzezinski --- Ex. Consigliere della Sicurezza Nazionale sotto la presidenza Carter.
7: Generale Richard B. Myers - Presidente del Joint Chiefs of Staff, sotto la seconda presidenza Bush, fino al suo recente ritiro nel Settembre 2005.
8: Kevin Tebbit --- Ministro della Difesa Britannico
9: Carol Thatcher --- Sorella dell'ex Primo Ministro inglese, Margaret Thatcher- Ha cessato di mantenere un basso profilo verso la fine del 2005 partecipando allo show televisivo : "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"
10: Alan Greenspan --- Ex. Presidente della Federal Reserve americana.
11: Harold Varmus --- Ex. Direttore del National Institutes of Healt e Premio Nobel per la medicina.
12: R. Buss (E' della CIA - ma non si hanno informazioni)

Nel tentativo di provarne l'autenticità, il Dr. Burish ha inviato sul sito http://www.eaglesdisobey.net. le sue credenziali. Anche se le sue affermazioni sono ancora da verificare, è provato che il Dr. Burish è un impiegato del Governo degli Stati Uniti.

Qui ho fatto un organigramma di come doveva essere la situazione alla nascita del majestic, ricavandolo da dettagli scritti sul libro di Alfredo Lissoni "Gli UFO e la CIA".

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Ora passiamo invece ai componenti del Majestic 12.

Lista dei personaggi facenti parte del Majestic 12

Alla sua creazione

1 - Ammiraglio Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
2 - Dr. Vannevar Bush
3 - Sottosegretario James V. Forrestal (sostituito dopo la sua morte dal Generale Walter Bedell Smith)
4 - Generale Nathan F. Twining
5 - Generale Hoyt S. Vandenberg
6 - Dr. Detlev Bronk
7 - Dr. Jerome Hunsaker
8 - Sig. Sidney W. Souers
9 - Sig. Gordon Gray
10 - Dr. Donald Menzel
11 - Generale Robert M. Montague
12 - Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner

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Oggi 2006

1: Vice Ammiraglio John M. McConnell --- Ex. direttore della NSA, dal Gennaio 2007 Direttore del National Intelligence (DNI),
2: Richard B. Cheney --- Vice presidente degli Stati Uniti sotto la presidenza di Bush.
3: Porter Goss --- Ex. direttore della DCI ( Director of Central Intelligence)
4: Ammiraglio Bobby Ray Inman --- Ex. direttore della NSA e della Naval Intelligence, e vice direttore della CIA e della DIA.
5: Henry Alfred Kissinger --- Ex. Consigliere per la Sicurezza Nazionale e Segretario di Stato sotto la presidenza Nixon
6: Zbigniew Brzezinski --- Ex. Consigliere della Sicurezza Nazionale sotto la presidenza Carter.
7: Generale Richard B. Myers - Presidente del Joint Chiefs of Staff, sotto la seconda presidenza Bush, fino al suo recente ritiro nel Settembre 2005.
8: Kevin Tebbit --- Ministro della Difesa Britannico
9: Carol Thatcher --- Sorella dell'ex Primo Ministro inglese, Margaret Thatcher- Ha cessato di mantenere un basso profilo verso la fine del 2005 partecipando allo show televisivo : "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"
10: Alan Greenspan --- Ex. Presidente della Federal Reserve americana.
11: Harold Varmus --- Ex. Direttore del National Institutes of Healt e Premio Nobel per la medicina.
12: R. Buss (E' della CIA - ma non si hanno informazioni)

Detlev Bronk

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Detlev Wulf Bronk (August 13, 1897 – November, 1975) was President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1949 to 1953 and President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. (prior to that, he was Chairman of the National Research Council) From 1953-1968 Detlev Bronk was president of Rockefeller University (previously Rockefeller Institute for Medical Science and renamed Rockefeller University during his presidency). He firmly believed in academic freedom and resisted vigorously an attempt by Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy to have Hopkins dismiss Professor Owen Lattimore. He was credited with formulating the modern theory of the science of biophysics. Detlev was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 14, 1964. He was also a member of the National Aeronautics and Space council and he was a winner of an "Atoms for Peace" award. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Brookhaven National Laboratories. He was one of the founders (1960) and President of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). He was an advisory member of the Atomic Energy Commission. Bronk is credited with reshaping the postwar university environment at Hopkins. While at Hopkins, he tried unsuccessfully to revive the "Goodnow Plan" but succeeded in acquiring the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. Quote by Detlev: "A great deal of undergraduate education is built on ... telling a student what to do—at the very time he is developing intellectual habits for life. Too rarely is a student told, 'This is the problem with which we are going to deal. Here are the books.'

Conspiracy theories
The "Eisenhower Briefing Document" identifies Bronk as a member of the Majestic 12 Group and involved with conducting alien autopsies and creating a breed of Humans that contain partial DNA from the Aliens. Excerpts follow - According to the "Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary, Intelligence Assessment": "…As to the bodies…it appears that none of the five crew members survived entry into our atmosphere due to unknown causes. Dr. Detlev Bronk has been asked to assist in the autopsy of one well preserved cadaver to be done by Major Charles E. Rea." Detlev coined the term EBE for ET. While Detlev is known to have been a compulsive diarist, his diaries for the year 1947 have been removed and are noted as missing from his archives. Detlev is reported to have brokered and signed a peace treaty with an Alien group in 1966

Per chi volesse più informazioni riguardanti il Majestic 12 di questo personaggio (in italiano) è pregato di mandarmi un messaggio privato.

Donald Menzel

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Dr. Donald Menzel worked during WWII in the Navy as a cryptologist. he was a professor in Astrophysics and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, and had close associations with Bush, Berkner, and Bronk. He is chiefly remembered for his dismissive statements and three books on UFOs, all of which, he said, could be explained in mundane terms. Doctor Menzel was known for his discretion with regard to classified matters. He had learned Japanese and was an expert on crypt-analysis. In April 1986, Stanton Friedman asked for the approval of his wife and 2 government officials to look into his personal files. It was found out that he was deeply involved with the National Security Agency for almost 30 years, and had a Top Secret Ultra security clearance from the CIA and had close relationships with other MJ-12 members. He has served as a Advisor to many American companies, worked for the government on many secret projects, and was a Security Advisor for several Presidents. He made government paid trips to New Mexico in 1947 and 1948. He knew Senator John F. Kennedy, by his first name "Jack." He survived a loyalty hearing during the McCarthy era after fellow Massachusettsian, WWII buddy Dr. Vannevar Bush, vouched for him. And after "Jack" became President of the United States, hinted to him that he wouldn't mind an appointment.

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Gordon Gray

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Gordon Gray (May 30, 1909 – November 26, 1982) was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman (1945-53) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61) associated with defense and national security.

Biography
Gordon Gray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bowman Gray, Sr. and Nathalie Lyons Gray. He was married in 1938 to the former Jane Boyden Craige, and they had four sons: Gordon Gray, Jr., Burton Gray, C. Boyden Gray and Bernard Gray. After Jane's death, Gray married the former Nancy Maguire Beebe. His father, uncle James A. Gray, Jr. and later his brother, Bowman Gray, Jr., were all heads of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Gordon Gray graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1930, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Beta chapter). He earned his law degree from Yale University in 1933 and practiced law for two years in New York City before returning to Winston-Salem. UNC presented Gray with an honorary law degree in 1949. He was the second president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, succeeding Frank Porter Graham in 1950.
Gray began his public life as a lawyer and was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly in 1939, 1941, and 1947, representing Forsyth County. He entered the U.S. Army in 1942 as a private and rose to captain, serving in Europe with General Omar Bradley's forces. Gray's service to the federal government began with his appointment as President Harry S. Truman's assistant secretary of the army in 1947; two years later, he was appointed Secretary of the Army. He served in this post from 1949 until 1950. The following year he became director of the newly formed Psychological Strategy Board which planned for and coordinated government psychological operations; he remained in the post until May 1952, all the while continuing to lead the University of North Carolina. [1]
In 1954 Gray chaired a committee appointed by AEC chairman Lewis Strauss which recommended revoking Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance. The Gray Board, as it was known, issued its split decision on May 27, 1954, with Gray and Thomas A. Morgan recommending the revocation, despite their finding that Oppenheimer was a "loyal citizen." Dr. Ward V. Evans, a conservative Republican and the third member of the board, dissented, saying that most of the allegations against Oppenheimer had been heard before, in 1947, when he had originally received his clearance. [2]
Gray shocked proponents of public education in North Carolina when he said, in a November 1954 Founder's Day speech at Guilford College, that "if I had to make a choice between a complete system of publicly supported higher education or a complete system of private higher education, I would choose the latter as a greater safeguard of the things for which we live." [3] Less than a year later, Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson named Gray assistant secretary for international security affairs and Gray's brief career in academia was ended.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him to head the Office of Defense Mobilization in 1957, where he served until the office's consolidation in 1958. Eisenhower then appointed Gray his National Security Advisor from 1958 until 1961. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. In 1976, he was awarded the United States Military Academy's Sylvanus Thayer Award.
Gray was also publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal, chairman of the board of Piedmont Publishing Company and chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
His son, C. Boyden Gray, served as White House counsel for President George Herbert Walker Bush. His nephew, Lyons Gray, is chief financial officer for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Hoyt S. Vandenberg

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Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899–April 2, 1954) was a U.S. Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Vandenberg was briefly the U.S. Chief of Military Intelligence during World War II, but his primary duty was as commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England and in France, supporting the Army, from August 1944 until V-E Day. Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central coast of California is named for General Vandenberg. He is also the nephew of Arthur H. Vandenberg, a former U.S. Senator from Michigan.

Military career
The general was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, spending his teenage years there. He graduated from the United States Military Academy on June 12, 1923, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Service.
General Vandenberg graduated from the Air Service Flying School at Brooks Field, Texas, in February 1924, and from the Air Service Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, in September 1924.
His first assignment was with the Third Attack Group at Kelly Field, where he assumed command of the 90th Attack Squadron. In 1927, he became an instructor at the Air Corps Primary Flying School at March Field, Calif. He went to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in May 1929, to join the Sixth Pursuit Squadron, and assumed command of it the following November.
Returning in September 1931, he was appointed a flying instructor at Randolph Field, Texas, and became a flight commander and deputy stage commander there in March 1933. He entered the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, in August 1934, and graduated the following June. Two months later he enrolled in the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and completed the course in June 1936. He then became an instructor at the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, where he taught until September 1936, when he entered the Army War College.
After graduating from the War College in June 1939, General Vandenberg was assigned to the Plans Division in the Office of the Chief of Air Corps. A few months after the United States entered World War II, he became operations and training officer of the Air Staff. For his services in these two positions he received the Distinguished Service Medal.
In June 1943, General Vandenberg was assigned to the United Kingdom and assisted in the organization of the Air Forces in North Africa. While in Great Britain he was appointed the chief of staff of the Twelfth Air Force, which he helped organize. On February 18, 1943, General Vandenberg became the chief of staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force and with this air force he flew on numerous missions over Tunisia, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, and Pantelleria during the North African campaign. He was awarded both the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his services during this time. For his organizational ability with the 12th Air Force and his work as chief of staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force, he was awarded the Legion of Merit.
In August 1943, Vandenberg was assigned to Air Force headquarters as Deputy Chief of Air Staff. In September 1943 he became head of an air mission to Russia, under Ambassador Harriman, and returned to the United States in January 1944.
In March 1944, He was transferred to the European theater, and in April 1944, was designated the Deputy Air Commander in Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces and the Commander of its American Air Component.
In August 1944, General Vandenberg assumed command of the Ninth Air Force. On November 28, 1944, he received an oak leaf cluster to his Distinguished Service Medal for his part in planning the Normandy invasion.
He was appointed the Assistant Chief of Air Staff at the Army Air Forces (USAAF) headquarters in July 1945.
In January 1946, he became director of Intelligence on the War Department general staff where he served until his appointment in June 1946, as Director of Central Intelligence.
General Vandenberg returned to duty with the Air Force in April 1947, and on 15 June 1947, became the Deputy Commander in Chief of the Air Staff.
Following the division of the United States Department of War into the Departments of the Army and the Air Force, Lieutenant General Vandenberg was designated the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force on October 1, 1947, and promoted to the rank of General.
Even when he was at the pinnacle of his military career, General Vandenberg’s boyish good looks and outgoing personality often made him the target of attacks on his credibility and experience. But the attention that his appearance brought on wasn’t all bad, having appeared on the covers of TIME and LIFE magazine. The Washington Post once described him as “the most impossibly handsome man on the entire Washington scene,” and Marilyn Monroe once named Vandenberg, along with Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, as one of the three people with whom she would want to be stranded on a deserted island.
On April 30, 1948, General Vandenberg became the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, succeeding General Carl Spaatz. He was renominated by President Harry S. Truman for a second term as Air Force Chief of Staff on March 6, 1952. The nomination was confirmed on April 28, 1952, with Vandenberg serving until June 30, 1953.
A controversy arose while he was the Air Force Chief of Staff, when he opposed the Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson on a proposed $5 billion budget reduction for the Air Force. General Vandenberg maintained that the cut backed by Wilson would reduce U.S. military aviation to a "one-shot Air Force", inferior to that of the Soviet Union. He said it was another instance of "start-stop" planning of a kind that had impeded Air Force development in previous years. The cut in appropriations went into effect in July 1953, immediately after his retirement from the Air Force.

Post-military life
A scratch golfer, General Vandenberg spent every free moment on the golf courses, but he was also a lover of movies, Westerns, and scotch. Unfortunately, his last months in uniform were painful, unhealthy ones. General Vandenberg retired from active duty as a result of major illness on June 30, 1953, and died nine months later at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center from prostate cancer at the age of 55. His remains are buried in Section 30 of the Arlington National Cemetery.
His wife, Gladys Rose Vandenberg, started the concept of the "Arlington Ladies" while he was Air Force Chief of Staff. The program provides that a military lady of the appropriate service represents the service chief at all military funerals at Arlington Cemetery. She was buried alongside her husband in Arlington National Cemetery upon her death on January 9, 1978. They are survived by their children, Gloria Miller, and retired Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr., USAF.
On October 4, 1958, the missile and aerospace base at Cooke AFB in Lompoc, California, was renamed the Vandenberg Air Force Base. In July 1963, the instrument ship USAF General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (T-AGM-10) was renamed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, for duty on the Eastern Space and Missile Range in the Atlantic. One of the two cadets' dormitories at the United States Air Force Academy is also named in his honor. In addition, a popular enlisted "hangout" for technical school Airmen at Keesler AFB, Mississippi, is named in his honor. The Vandenberg Esplanade, located along the Merrimack River in Lowell, Massachusetts and part of the Lowell Heritage State Park, is named in his honor.

Decorations
General Vandenberg had been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, the Bronze Star, the World War II Victory Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, and the European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal.
His foreign decorations include the Mexican Military Order of Merit; Netherlands Order of Orange Nassau (Grand Officer with Swords); Brazilian Cruzeiro do Sul (Grand Officer), and Medal of War; Luxembourg Order of Adolph von Nassau (Grand Cross), and Croix de Guerre; Belgian Order of Leopold I (Grand Officer with Palms); and French Croix de Guerre with Palms; British Order of the Bath (Knight Commanders Cross); Polish Order of Polish Restoration (2nd Class); Portuguese Ordem de Avis, Gra Cruiz; Egyptian L'Ordre Du Nil Grand Cordon; Chinese Order of Pao Ting (Tripod with Grand Cordon); Chilean Medallia Militar de Primerera Clase; Argentine General Staff Emblem and the Military Order of Italy.
The Manuscript Collection of Hoyt S. Vandenberg at the Library of Congress as of November 2005 is Classified.

Interessante!!

James V. Forrestal

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense.
Forrestal was a supporter of naval battle groups centered on aircraft carriers. In 1954, the Navy's first supercarrier was named the USS Forrestal in his honor, as is the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy. He is also the namesake of the Forrestal Lecture Series at the United States Naval Academy, which brings prominent military and civilian leaders to speak to the Brigade of Midshipmen, and of the James Forrestal Campus of Princeton University, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.
Forrestal's sudden death in May 1949 resulted from a fall out of a Bethesda Naval Hospital window. An official U.S. Navy Medical Review Board convened on his death, after examining all doctors and witnesses who were in the vicinity, could not establish the reason for Forrestal's fall (i.e. suicide, homicide, or accident). An autopsy was performed, but the autopsy report has never been made public.[2] The peculiar circumstances of Forrestal's death, and the U.S. government's withholding of the complete report of the review board until 2004, has led to much speculation and controversy.

Early life and private employment
Forrestal was born in Matteawan, New York, (now part of Beacon, New York), the youngest son of James Forrestal, an Irish immigrant who dabbled in politics. His mother, the former Mary Anne Toohey (herself the daughter of another Irish immigrant) raised him as a devout Roman Catholic.[4] He was an amateur boxer.[1] After graduating from high school at the age of 16 in 1908, he spent the next three years working for a trio of newspapers: the Matteawan Evening Journal, the Mount Vernon Argus and the Poughkeepsie News Press.
Forrestal entered Dartmouth College in 1911, but transferred to Princeton University sophomore year. He served was an editor for The Daily Princetonian. The senior class voted him "Most Likely to Succeed", but he left just prior to completing work on a degree.
Forrestal went to work as a bond salesman for William A. Read and Company (later renamed Dillon, Read & Co.) in 1916 and remained there until 1940, except for his service during World War I. He became a partner (1923), vice-president (1926), and president of the company (1937).
When World War I broke out, he enlisted in the Navy and ultimately became a Naval Aviator, training with the Royal Flying Corps in Canada. During the final year of the war, Forrestal spent much of his time in Washington, D.C., at the office of Naval Operations, while completing his flight training. He eventually reached the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.
Following the war, Forrestal served as a publicist for the Democratic Party committee in Dutchess County, New York helping politicians from the area win elections at both the state and national level. One of those individuals aided by his work was a neighbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
By most accounts, Forrestal was a compulsive workaholic, skilled administrator, pugnacious, introspective, shy, philosophic, solitary, and emotionally insecure. He was cold and neglectful toward his family. While working in England, Forrestal received a phone call from his two sons, then aged eight and six years. The two had missed their plane in Paris; Forrestal simply told the boys to work out the problem themselves and meet him in London.
He married Mrs. Josephine Stovall (born Ogden), a Vogue writer, in 1926. She eventually developed alcohol and mental problems.

Political career
Secretary of the Navy
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Forrestal a special administrative assistant on June 22, 1940. Six weeks later he nominated him for the newly established position, Undersecretary of the Navy. In his nearly four years as undersecretary, Forrestal proved highly effective at mobilizing domestic industrial production for the war effort. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Ernest J. King, wanted to control logistics and procurement, but Forrestal prevailed.[1]
He became Secretary of the Navy on May 19, 1944, after his immediate superior Secretary Frank Knox died from a heart attack. Forrestal led the Navy through the closing year of the war and the painful early years of demobilization that followed. As Secretary, Forrestal introduced a policy of racial integration in the Navy.
Forrestal traveled to combat zones to see naval forces in action. He was in the South Pacific in 1942, present at the Battle of Kwajalein in 1944, and (as Secretary) witnessed the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Secretary of Defense
In 1947 President Harry S. Truman appointed him the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal continued to advocate for complete racial integration of the services, a policy eventually implemented in 1949.
During private cabinet meetings with President Truman in 1946 and 1947, Forrestal had argued against partition of Palestine on the grounds it would infuriate Arab countries who supplied oil needed for the U.S. economy and national defense. Instead, Forrestal favored a federalization plan for Palestine. Outside the White House, response to Truman's continued silence on the issue was immediate. President Truman received threats to cut off campaign contributions from wealthy donors, as well as hate mail, including a letter accusing him of "preferring fascist and Arab elements to the democracy-loving Jewish people of Palestine."[6] Appalled by the intensity and implied threats over the partition question, Forrestal appealed to Truman in two separate cabinet meetings not to base his decision on partition, whatever the outcome, on the basis of political pressure.[7] In his only known public comment on the issue, Forrestal stated to J. Howard McGrath, Senator from Rhode Island:
"...no group in this country should be permitted to influence our policy to the point it could endanger our national security."
Forrestal's statement soon earned him the active enmity of some congressmen and supporters of Israel. Forrestal was also an early target of the muckraking columnist and broadcaster Drew Pearson, an opponent of foreign policies hostile to the Soviet Union, who began to regularly call for Forrestal's removal after President Truman named him Secretary of Defense.[9] Pearson told his own protege, Jack Anderson, that he believed Forrestal was "the most dangerous man in America" and claimed that if he was not removed from office, he would "cause another world war."
Upon taking office as Secretary of Defense, Forrestal was surprised to learn that the administration did not budget for defense needs based on military threats posed by enemies of the United States and its interests. According to historian Walter LaFeber, Truman was known to approach defense budgetary requests in the abstract, without regard to defense response requirements in the event of conflicts with potential enemies.[10] The president would begin by subtracting from total receipts the amount needed for domestic needs and recurrent operating costs, with any surplus going to the defense budget for that year.[10] The Truman administration's readiness to slash conventional readiness needs for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps soon caused fierce controversies within the upper ranks of the armed forces.[10][11]
At the close of World War II, millions of dollars of serviceable equipment had been scrapped or abandoned rather than appropriate funds for storage costs. New military equipment en route to operations in the Pacific theater was scrapped or simply tossed overboard.[11] Facing the wholesale demobilization of most of the US defense force structure, Forrestal resisted President Truman's efforts to substantially reduce defense appropriations,[12] but was unable to prevent a steady reduction in defense spending, resulting in major cuts not only in defense equipment stockpiles, but also in military readiness.
By 1948, President Harry Truman had approved military budgets billions of dollars below what the services were requesting, putting Forrestal in the middle of a fierce tug-of-war between the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Forrestal was also becoming increasingly worried about the Soviet threat.[13] His 18 months at Defense came at an exceptionally difficult time for the U.S. military establishment: Communist governments came to power in Czechoslovakia and China; the Soviets imposed a blockade on West Berlin prompting the U.S. Berlin Airlift to supply the city; the war between the Arab states and Israel after the establishment of Israel in Palestine; and negotiations were going on for the formation of NATO.
Soviet-inspired Communist takeovers of much of Eastern Europe, Soviet-supported communist military and political campaigns against the governments of Greece, Italy, and France, the impending Communist victory in China, and the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korea would eventually demonstrate the legitimacy of Forrestal's concerns, but at the time these were not shared by the President or the rest of his cabinet. Dwight D. Eisenhower recorded he was in agreement with Forrestal's theories on the dangers of Soviet and International communist expansion. Eisenhower recalled that Forrestal had been "the one man who, in the very midst of the war, always counseled caution and alertness in dealing with the Soviets." Eisenhower remembered on several occasions, while he was Supreme Allied Commander, he had been visited by Forrestal, who carefully explained his thesis that the Communists would never cease trying to destroy all representative government. Eisenhower commented in his personal diary on 11 June 1949, "I never had cause to doubt the accuracy of his judgments on this point." [14]
Forrestal also opposed the unification of the military services proposed by the Truman officials. Even so, he helped develop the National Security Act of 1947 that created the National Military Establishment (the Department of Defense was not created as such until August 1949). With the former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson retiring to private life, Forrestal was the next choice.

Resignation as Secretary of Defense
Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey was expected to win the presidential elections of 1948. Forrestal met with Dewey privately and it was agreed, he would continue as Secretary of Defense under a Dewey administration. Unwittingly, Forrestal would trigger a series of events that would not only undermine his already precarious position with President Truman but would also contribute to the loss of his job, his failing health, and eventual demise. Weeks before the election, Pearson published an exposé of the meetings between Dewey and Forrestal. [15] In 1949, angered over Forrestal's continued opposition to his defense economization policies, and concerned about reports in the press over his mental condition, Truman abruptly asked Forrestal to resign. By March 31, 1949, Forrestal was out of a job.[12] He was replaced by Louis A. Johnson, an ardent supporter of Truman's defense retrenchment policy.
Forrestal's greatest legacy may have been an unrealized one. Forrestal, along with Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, in the early months of 1945, strongly advocated a softer policy toward Japan that would permit a negotiated armistice, a 'face-saving' surrender. Forrestal's primary concern was not the resurgence of a militarized Japan, but rather "the menace of Russian Communism and its attraction for decimated, destabilized societies in Europe and Asia," and, therefore, keeping the Soviet Union out of the war with Japan. Had his advice been followed, Japan might well have surrendered before August 1945, precluding the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[16] So strongly did he feel about this matter that he cultivated negotiation efforts that some regarded as approaching insubordination. [1]

Psychiatric treatment
In 1949, exhausted from overwork, Forrestal entered psychiatric treatment. The attending psychiatrist Dr. George N. Raines was a Navy Captain handpicked by the Surgeon General.
First week: narcosis with sodium amytal. Second week and for a period of four weeks: a regimen of insulin sub-shock combined with psycho-therapeutic interviews. According to Dr. Raines, the patient over reacted to the insulin much as he had the amytal and this would occasionally throw him into a confused state with a great deal of agitation and confusion. Fourth week: insulin administered only in stimulating doses; 10 units of insulin four times a day, morning, noon, afternoon and evening.
According to Dr. Raines, "We considered electro-shock but thought it better to postpone it for another ninety days. In reactive depression if electro-shock is used early and the patient is returned to the same situation from which he came there is grave danger of suicide in the immediate period after they return... so strangely enough we left out electro-shock to avoid what actually happened anyhow".[17]

Death
Although Forrestal had told associates he had decided to resign, he was shattered when Truman abruptly asked for his resignation. His letter of resignation was tendered after Truman's dismissal on March 28, 1949. On the day of his removal from office, he was reported to have gone into a strange daze and was flown on a United States Navy airplane to the estate of Under Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett in Hobe Sound, Florida, where Forrestal's wife, Josephine, was vacationing. William C. Menninger of the Menninger Clinic in Kansas was consulted and he diagnosed "severed depression" of the type "seen in operational fatigue during the war". The Menninger Clinic had treated successfully similar cases during World War II but Forrestal's wife Josephine, his friend and associate Ferdinand Eberstadt, Dr. Menninger and Navy psychiatrist Dr. George Raines decided to send the former Secretary of Defense to the US Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland, where it would be possible to deny his mental illness.[18] He was checked into the Bethesda Naval Hospital five days later. The decision to house him on the 16th floor instead of the first floor was justified in the same way. Forrestal's condition was officially announced as "nervous and physical exhaustion"; his lead doctor, Captain Raines, diagnosing his condition as "depression" or "reactive depression."
As a person who prized anonymity and once stated that his hobby was "obscurity", he and his policies had been the constant target of vicious personal attacks from columnists, including Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell.[9] Pearson's protege, Jack Anderson, later asserted that Pearson "hectored Forrestal with innuendos and false accusations."[19]


Bethesda Naval Hospital
Forrestal seemed to be on the road to recovery, having regained 12 pounds since his entry into the hospital. However, in the early morning hours of May 22, his body, clad only in the bottom half of a pair of pajamas, was found on a third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen across the hall from his room.[3]
The official Navy review board, which completed hearings on May 31, waited until October 11, 1949, to release only a brief summary of its findings. The announcement, as reported on page 15 of the October 12 New York Times, stated only that Forrestal had died from his fall from the window. It did not say what might have caused the fall, nor did it make any mention of a bathrobe sash cord that had first been reported as tied around his neck. There were unsubstantiated reports in the press[20] of paranoia and of involuntary commitment to the hospital, as well as suspicions[21] about the detailed circumstances of his death, which have fed a variety of conspiracy theories as well as legitimate questions.
Forrestal's last written statement was part of a poem from Sophocles' tragedy Ajax:[1][22]
Fair Salamis, the billows’ roar,
Wander around thee yet,
And sailors gaze upon thy shore
Firm in the Ocean set.
Thy son is in a foreign clime
Where Ida feeds her countless flocks,
Far from thy dear, remembered rocks,
Worn by the waste of time–
Comfortless, nameless, hopeless save
In the dark prospect of the yawning grave....
Woe to the mother in her close of day,
Woe to her desolate heart and temples gray,
When she shall hear
Her loved one’s story whispered in her ear!
“Woe, woe!’ will be the cry–
No quiet murmur like the tremulous wail
Of the lone bird, the querulous nightingale–
The exact contents of Forrestal's actual note, which some have alleged was an implied suicide note, was not released by the Department of the Navy until April 2004.[3]
James Forrestal is buried in Section 30 Lot 674 Grid X-39 of Arlington National Cemetery.[1][23]

Assassination allegations
Doubts have existed from the beginning about Forrestal's death, especially allegations of suicide[24]. The early doubts are detailed in the book The Death of James Forrestal (1966) by Cornell Simpson, which received virtually no publicity. As Simpson notes (pp. 40–44), a major reason for doubt is the fact that the Navy kept the full transcript of its official hearing and final report secret. Additional doubt has been raised by the 2004 release of that complete report, informally referred to as the Willcutts Report, after Admiral Morton D. Willcutts, the head of the National Naval Medical Center, who convened the review board.
Among the discrepancies between the report and the accounts given in the principal Forrestal biographies are that the transcription of the poem by Sophocles appears to David Martin, author of the 5-part series Who Killed James Forrestal?[25] to have been written in a hand other than Forrestal's. If Forrestal's, according to some intelligence sources, then he could not scribble the word "nightingale" in the poem because it was the code name of the Ukrainian Nazi elite unit Nachtigall Brigade which Forrestal had helped to smuggle to the United States to supplant Kim Philby's. failed ABN (Anti Bolshevik Nationals), an MI6 Soviet émigré fascist group.[26] There was also broken glass found on Forrestal's bed,[3] a fact that had not been previously reported. Theories as to who might have murdered Forrestal range from Soviet agents, to U.S. government operatives sent to silence him for his knowledge of UFOs.[27]
Forrestal's single known public statement regarding pressure from interest groups, and his cabinet position opposing the partition of Palestine has been significantly magnified by later critics into a portrayal of Forrestal as a dedicated anti-Zionist who led a concerted campaign to thwart the cause of the Jewish people in Palestine. These critics tend to characterize Forrestal as a mentally unhinged individual, a hysteric with deep anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish feelings. Forrestal himself maintained that he was being shadowed by "foreign men", which some critics and authors quickly interpreted to mean either Soviet NKVD agents or proponents of Zionism.[28] Author Arnold Rogow supported the theory that Forrestal committed suicide over fantasies of being chased by Zionist agents, largely relying on information obtained in interviews conducted with some of Forrestal's fiercest critics inside and outside the Truman administration.
However, those who see Zionist conspiratorial designs behind Forrestal's unexplained death note Rogow's footnote to his work:
"While those beliefs reflect the fact that Forrestal was a very ill man in March 1949, it is entirely possible that he was 'shadowed' by Zionist agents in 1947 and 1948. A close associate of his at the time recalls that at the height of the Palestine controversy, his (the associate's) official limousine was followed to and from his office by a blue sedan containing two men. When the police were notified and the sedan apprehended, it was discovered that the two men were photographers employed by a Zionist organization. They explained to the police that they had hoped to obtain photographs of the limousine's occupant entering or leaving an Arab embassy in order to demonstrate that the official involved was in close contact with Arab representatives."
New light was shed on Forrestal's concerns in March 2006 when The Times of London, referencing newly declassified documents, revealed that a serious attempt by Menachem Begin's Irgun Gang to assassinate Britain's anti-Zionist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, had been thwarted by British intelligence in 1946.
Columnists Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell led a press campaign against Forrestal[9] to make him appear paranoid. But official evaluations of his psychiatric state never mentioned paranoia. One of Pearson's most spectacular claims was that at Hobe Sound, Florida, shortly before he was hospitalized, Forrestal was awakened by a siren in the middle of the night and ran out into the street exclaiming, "The Russians are attacking." No one who was there that night confirmed this claim. Captain George Raines, the Navy doctor in charge of Forrestal's treatment, called it a fabrication.

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Jerome Clarke Hunsaker

Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (August 26, 1886 – September 10, 1984) was an American airman born in Creston, Iowa, and educated at the Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied aerodynamics abroad and became an instructor at M.I.T. in 1914-16. He translated much of Eiffel's work including Resistance of the Air and constructed the first wind tunnel at M.I.T. Under him, graduate students were trained as aeronautical engineers. He designed the first modern airship built in the United States as well as the C and D class Navy airships, and with Westervelt and Richardson, also designed the NC flying boats. In 1917 he was a member of the joint Army and Navy Technical Board to create an aircraft program and in 1918 was attached to the Inter-Allied Naval Armistice Commission. Among his published works are: Stable Biplane Arrangements; Aërodynamic Properties of the Triplane; and Aëroplane Stability.
Hunsaker is allegedly one of the original members of Majestic 12, and was the last of the alleged original members to die.

Lloyd V. Berkner

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Lloyd Viel Berkner (February 1, 1905, in Milwaukee – June 4, 1967, in Washington, D.C.) was an American physicist and engineer. He is notable as the first person to measure the height and density of the ionosphere. This permitted the first complete theory of short wave radio propagation.
Later he investigated the development of the Earth's atmosphere. Since he needed data from the whole world, he proposed the International Geophysical Year in 1950. At that time, the IGY was the largest cooperative study of the Earth ever undertaken.
The IGY was carried out by the International Council of Scientific Unions while he was president in 1957-59. He was also a member of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee in 1958 while he was president of Associated Universities Inc.
In 1963, Berkner, with L.C. Marshall, advanced a theory to describe the way in which the atmospheres of the solar system's inner planets had evolved.
Beginning in 1926, as a naval officer, Berkner assisted in the development of radar and navigation systems, naval aircraft electronics engineering, and studies that led to the construction of the Distant Early Warning system, a chain of radar stations designed to give the United States advance warning in the event of a missile attack across the North Pole.
He wrote more than 100 papers and several books, including Rockets and Satellites (1958), Science in Space (1961), and The Scientific Age (1964).
Personal Information: Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas was named for him in 1969. The lunar crater Berkner is named after him. An island in Antartica was also named for Dr. Berkner (Berkner Island) for his work as a radio operator on the first Byrd expedition to Antartica in 1927. He was reported to be a member of the "Majestic 12", twelve scientists exploring the Roswell UFO Incident, and a member of the President's advisory committee. He was married to Lillian Fulks Berkner and had two children (Patricia Berkner Booth and Phyllis Berkner Wiederaenders) and 5 grandchildren (Charles A. Booth, Theodore Booth, Susan Booth, Mary Ashley Teague, and Karen Ashley Traxler).
Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner was an alleged member of MJ-12. Berkner was executive secretary of the Joint Research and Development Board under Dr. Vannevar Bush. He also chaired the committee whose study led to the establishment of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. Berkner subsequently served on the "Robertson Panel", a civilian scientific advisory panel requested by the Eisenhower White House, chaired by Cal Tech mathematician Dr. H. P. Robertson and convened and funded by the CIA. In 1950 and later, he was a member of a UFO group that was also funded by the CIA.

Nathan F. Twining

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Nathan Farragut Twining (October 11, 1897 - March 29, 1982) was a United States Air Force General, born in Monroe, Wisconsin. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960 he was the first member of the Air Force to serve in that role.

Biography
Nathan Twining came from a rich military background; his forebears had served in the United States Army and Navy since the French and Indian War. His mother was Frances Staver Twining, author of Bird-Watching in the West.[1]
In 1913, Twining moved with his family to Oswego, Oregon, serving in the Oregon National Guard from 1915 to 1917.[1] In 1917, he received an appointment to West Point. Because the program was shortened so as to produce more officers for combat, he spent only two years at the academy and graduated just a few days too late for service in World War I.[2]
After graduating in 1918 and serving in the infantry for three years arriving in Europe in July 1919, he transferred to the Air Service. Over the next 15 years he flew fighter aircraft in Texas, Louisiana, and Hawaii, while also attending the Air Corps Tactical School and the Command and General Staff College. When war broke out in Europe he was assigned to the operations division on the Air Staff; then in 1942 he was sent to the South Pacific where he became chief of staff of the Allied air forces in that area.
In January 1943, he assumed command of the Thirteenth Air Force, and that same November he traveled across the world to take over the Fifteenth Air Force from Jimmy Doolittle. When Germany surrendered, Arnold sent Twining back to the Pacific to command the B-29s of the Twentieth Air Force in the last push against Japan, but he was there only a short time when the atomic strikes ended the war. He returned to the States where he was named commander of the Air Materiel Command, and in 1947 he took over Alaskan Air Command.
After three years there he was set to retire as a Lieutenant General, but when Muir Fairchild, the vice chief of staff, died unexpectedly of a heart attack, Twining was elevated to full General and named his successor.
In 1947, Twining was asked to study UFO reports; he recommended that a formal study of the phenomenon take place; Project Sign was the result.
When Hoyt Vandenberg retired in mid-1953, Twining was selected as chief; during his tenure, massive retaliation based on airpower became the national strategy.
In 1957, President Eisenhower appointed Twining Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
General Twining died on March 29, 1982 at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Robert M. Montague

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General Robert M. Montague was director of the Anti-Aircraft and Guided Missiles Branch of the U.S Army Artillery School. He was also commanding general of the Atomic Energy Commission installation of Sandia Base in Albuquerque. It has been stated "If a saucer had actually crashed in New Mexico, he would have known. And if an operation were mounted to shoot these intruders out of the skies, he would have been in charge of organizing it."

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