“Laurance was the philosopher king of the family. David Rockefeller was the money guy with Chase Manhattan, and his nephew, Jay Rockefeller was Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. If you recall from my talk, Nelson Rockefeller was the one who had set up the Rockefeller Commission of 1956 which completely reorganized the Department of Defense and the CIA, and led to the establishment of MJ-12—he was the group’s first leader. It was also Nelson Rockefeller who made it so no U.S. president could contain, control, or penetrate MAJI or their unacknowledged UFO projects.”
“You must have gotten some blowback — associating with a Rockefeller.”
“I did, but I knew Laurance was different; I think he wanted to ‘cleanse the family karma.’ He knew what we were doing was really working — he had been sending his people to our CE-5 protocols where ET craft would appear and then disappear. Laurance invited me out to his ranch — the J.Y. Ranch in Wyoming which is where the Clintons vacationed. I was asked to go there in September of 1993 to share information about our CE-5 initiative.
“It was an eclectic crowd. Billionaire Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace was there, along with people of various backgrounds from the UFO sub-culture. Some were supportive regarding our work; some despised what we were doing. I found out later that the unfriendlies were working for the intelligence community.
“At some juncture over the weekend I was asked what else I was working on. I said, ‘We’ve initiated a project to brief senior government officials in the Clinton Administration and the Pentagon and members of Congress so that we can terminate secrecy on this issue and get the government to change policy because we understand that the incoming president is favorable toward that idea.’
“Well, you could have heard a pin drop. Laurance Rockefeller asked about my plans and I told him I was going straight to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after this meeting to brief the colonel over this Foreign Technology Division of the Air Force, and then, in a couple of months, I’d be briefing President Clinton’s CIA director.
“Laurance wanted to be involved, but only from behind-the-scenes. He offered to host the president and first lady at his ranch so that I could show them the best available UFO photos and evidence.
“Meanwhile, the U.N. Secretary General’s wife attended a series of events known as salons. A salon was a meeting in a private home attended by dignitaries. The well-to-do host would invite an interesting guest, someone like yours truly, who would inform these rich and powerful people about what was going on, which is exactly what I did. Mrs. Boutros-Ghali was so taken by the subject that she wanted to arrange a meeting at the U.N. so I could brief a lot of the diplomats and friends of hers who were supportive of ending secrecy and making peaceful interplanetary contact. Again, our objective was to provide accurate information to the president, his advisors, and the key people in Congress. We even gave them the perfect story to cover their asses as to why this information had been kept so long from the masses — that world leaders were simply waiting until the Cold War was over, not wanting to throw into the mix the fact that Earth was being visited by interstellar civilizations, and that our scientists had, in fact, reverse-engineered many of their technologies.
“In the fall of 1993, I was invited to speak at Colorado State University. The event was hosted by astronaut Brian O’Leary and Maury Albertson, one of the co-founders of the Peace Corps. Before roughly 800 people I laid out the entire manifesto which justified disclosure and how we should do it. At the end of that talk I noticed a bald man standing at the back of the room, waiting to speak with me. He said, ‘Dr. Greer, my name is Petersen, and I think I can help you with this. I know some folks in Washington who want to know about this, but they’re not getting any good answers.’ I assumed it was some low level staffer for some junior congressman, only he surprised me by telling me it was James Woolsey, the director of Central Intelligence. The two men were good friends and he said Woolsey wanted to be briefed.
“The meeting was eventually set for December 13, 1993. The cover story was a dinner party in Arlington at John Petersen’s home. The CIA director and his wife, Dr. Sue Woolsey, who was the COO of the National Academy of Sciences, would attend along with Emily and myself. So we got a nanny for the kids, flew up to Washington, and had this meeting. I began by showing the director a portfolio of images, photographs, and documents. After about ten minutes Woolsey stopped me. He said he knew UFOs were real, turns out he and his wife had a sighting in New Hampshire when they were younger. What he wanted to know was why no one would discuss it with him or President Clinton.
“My initial thought was that I was being set up. Three hours later I was convinced he knew nothing about these projects; that both he and the president were being completely deceived by those who had compartmented intelligence within the CIA. That was the moment I realized that we were living in a country that had undergone a quiet coup d’état decades earlier — a story that would never be covered by either The New York Times or The Washington Post because it would be the biggest scandal ever.”
“What did you do?”
“I had come to the Woolsey meeting with a white paper which described what needed to be done by the president and his people in order to end the secrecy. I gave it to the CIA director as he was leaving. Woolsey looked at me and he said, ‘How can we disclose something which we have no access to?’
“Well, that was a very chilling question. If we were to push on this, it would unveil the biggest constitutional crisis in the history of the United States. No president wants to admit that they’re out of the loop on important things. They tend to think in terms of activities being either classified, secret, or top-secret, never realizing within these classifications there are compartments. The compartments that are Unacknowledged Special Access Projects are only known to those individuals inside the compartment, and that includes the President of the United States.
“I’ll give you an example of how even a high-ranking official is kept in the dark about a department he’s in charge of. On September 10, 2001—the day before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion was unaccounted for in the Department of Defense budget, based on a recent audit ordered by one of your predecessors, the Under Secretary of Defense. Think about that a moment. The war in Iraq cost American taxpayers a trillion dollars, and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is saying there is more than twice that amount — not missing, but unaccounted for.
“I know an auditor who audits my uncle’s old company, Northrop-Grumman. Just like Lockheed-Martin, they do a lot of top-secret work on certain kinds of aircraft dealing with anti-gravity propulsion. If it’s an unacknowledged compartment with billions of dollars in it, the auditor will be told, ‘You don’t have a need to know what’s going on with this,’ and it’s just rubber-stamped as audited. The auditors have no idea where that money is or where it’s going. It goes in the front door and leaves out the window, and no one knows where it ends up.
“My military advisor was involved in one USAP. He and a few others were taken into a SCIF — a Secure Communication Intelligence Facility — completely underground. Everyone’s weapons were taken, their cell phones, watches… anything electronic. A security enforcement officer for that particular USAP escorted them below. The guy took a bullet out of his gun’s chamber and said, ‘If you tell anyone about anything going on in this project, there is a bullet with your name on it and it will find you… somewhere… somehow.’ This is not a movie. This is actually how that world works… the world I’ve been dealing with since 1993. That is serious stuff. Of all the projects that are unacknowledged… black bag operations of all kinds… special operations of all kinds… the blackest and most unacknowledged are the ones dealing with UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence.