“Listening to this military advisor’s story, I was ready to quit. I mean, here I am, an ER doctor used to dealing with shootings and stabbings… car wrecks and burns… and this bag of crap gets handed off to me and I’m expected to run with it?
“In early February of 1994, a friend of the president came to our home for dinner; I was told that he was a big fundraiser for Bill Clinton. We’re sitting at the table eating dinner when he turns to me in front of my wife and kids and says, ‘The president and his team are really very supportive of what you’re recommending in this white paper, but they’re concerned that if he does this, he’ll end up like Jack Kennedy.’
“I start laughing… I think he’s joking. He stopped me and says, ‘No, they’re not kidding.’ We went into my library to talk in private where he tells me the president and his people were convinced that if he were to push on the UFO issue, he would be subject to TWEP — Termination With Extreme Prejudice. I’m hearing this, thinking — okay, then what am I supposed to do? It’s not like I’ve got a Secret Service detail. He said, ‘No… they want you to do this… go ahead and try to bring this stuff together.’ In other words, President Clinton is afraid he’ll be assassinated if he attempts to bring disclosure to the UFO-ET subject, but I’m expendable. And guess what that makes you, my friend?”
“Damn…”
“Laurance Rockefeller gave me the same line… that it was too dangerous for him, that the money side of his family — the oil people — were already angry at him for pursuing this. He’d support our efforts and he’d arrange for me to meet the Clintons at his ranch — a get-together that finally happened in 1994… my first presidential briefing.”
“So what did you do — you know, when you found out your place on the totem pole?”
“Once I realized the president would never sign an Executive Order, I decided to approach potential allies in both houses of Congress and eye-witnesses in the military and government, believing there was safety in numbers — not just for them but for myself. Between the years 1995 and 1998 we identified dozens of potential witnesses with top-secret clearances who could be subpoenaed and would swear under oath about UFOs and the secrecy behind it. In 1997, we held a meeting at the Westin Hotel in Georgetown for several dozen of these people, along with a few members of Congress… a very private, closed event. Congressman Dan Burton, who was Chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee showed up; he was interested because one of his closest friends had had a UFO encounter in Indiana some years earlier and told him all about it. Burton was a mover and a shaker; he wanted everything we had on the subject. A short time later someone got to him and he backed off.”
“Steven, how were you able to convince your eyewitnesses to violate their national security oaths in order to come forward and testify?”
“My military people provided the solution. They advised me to draft a UNOD letter.”
“UNOD?”
“Unless Otherwise Directed. The letter basically stated that these USAPs exist and are being run illegally and have been unconstitutional since the 1950s; that the president and other key figures have been lied to, as have the oversight committees of the Congress. It also mentioned how similar illegal programs exist in the United Kingdom and other countries where I had briefings. Therefore, it was our assessment that the National Security Act and secrecy laws that are attached to oaths of secrecy were null and void, and that any man or woman who has knowledge of any document, material, or evidence attached to the UFO and extraterrestrial issue can disclose this information publicly without penalty of law. Unless otherwise directed, we intended to proceed with disclosing this UFO testimony and all related documents.
“To cover ourselves legally, we sent the UNOD letter to the president, the head of the Justice Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, FBI, NSA — basically the entire alphabet soup of the Intel agencies and we sent it return receipt requested to prove it was received. Danny Sheehan, the constitutional attorney who did the Silkwood Case and represented The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers, helped me — pro-bono — on this.”
“I get it. If the programs are illegal, then the oath is invalid.”
“It’s basic constitutional law. The letter essentially exonerates every man and woman in the private and public sector, Intel or the military who ever worked on these projects from any legal penalties related to disclosing information. We used the document to protect every eyewitness and whistleblower that came forward to testify in 2001 for the Disclosure Project.”
“You have to wonder why Eric Snowden didn’t do this.”
“Snowden’s mistake was that he disclosed things that were legal — projects that were being overseen by the president and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Even though those programs are Big Brother-esque, he should have limited his disclosure to operations that were unacknowledged and illegal. If he had done that, he would not be in legal trouble. He just didn’t know. He was young, and the journalists and people who were working with him didn’t understand the system that well. As a whistleblower it’s okay to disclose the illegal programs, not the legal ones, no matter how outrageous they are. Of course, there are far more potential witnesses who will never come forward because of the threat to their families. This is the type of criminal behavior you’d associate with organized crime, which is exactly what it is… organized crime. I’ve had private conversations with several Apollo astronauts who told me that, when they returned from the moon they were briefed by members of the intelligence community who warned them that, if they ever went public about what they witnessed, their loved ones would be killed.”
“Witnessed… on the moon? You mean extraterrestrials?”
“With the Interstellar community, it’s all about consciousness. We tend to associate NASA with science, but the Apollo program was always an extension of the military industrial complex. When JFK set his challenge to put an American on the moon, the United States and the Soviet Union were at the height of the Cold War.”
“You didn’t answer my question. Are there ETs on the moon?”
“Their structures are located on the dark side. We have several Disclosure witnesses who have seen top-secret photos of these structures, so NASA knew they were there before the Apollo landing. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out of the lunar module, the crater they had landed in was surrounded by Interstellar craft. NASA officials had prepared a fake audio transmission and video footage of astronauts planting an American flag, just in case of that very scenario. You can tell where they cut in because, in one shot, the fake flag caught a gust of wind and moved.”
Adam shook his head. “Is everything about the space program a lie?”
“Which space program? There are two. One is NASA, otherwise known as the biggest white collar welfare program around. Do you have any idea how much American taxpayer monies have been wasted on antiquated rockets like the space shuttle?”
“What was wrong with the space shuttle?”