1952.  As I continue my research (and surprisingly, much of this information is easily found and has been compiled by other researchers, though not always with the same interpretation), I find that 1952 (and also ‘53 but I need a literary device here) figures very prominently. This was the year that Kenneth Arnold, who had been pivotal in launching the saucer craze, published his book on UFO’s with Ray Palmer.We’ve already seen some of the intelligence connections involved with his investigation of the Maury Island incident.

Here are a few other storylines of note that get their start around this time. We’ll see many of these players over and over again in our examination of the fascist and intelligence underpinnings of the UFO and “contactee” movements.

It was that year fascist George Adamski had his most famous UFO sighting and contact with the “Venusians”. Indeed, there was a whole network of these occult fascists, including the most famous, William Pelley, founder of the U.S. Nazi group the “Silver Shirts”, who moved their occultism into the space age via “contactees” and channelers.

It was the year that Andrija Puharich, known to have worked for the Army and almost certainly with the CIA, made his first contact with “the Nine”, a group of discarnate entities whos impact on the UFO movement as well as, surprisingly, on our society as a whole simply cannot be underestimated. It is through the Nine that, for reasons we’ll speculate on a bit later, the CIA and various elements of the military/industrial complex had the most success in pushing what amounts to a new religion in the U.S. and much of the West. There is a massive amount of material available on this topic and I’m trying to get a handle on it. One book I have already and recommend is The Stargate Conpsiracy, by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. Ultimately, they de-emphasize what I think is the most important purpose of all these intel games, but it’s an excellent place to start and you don’t have to buy into their more occult theories to find the book very helpful.

This was also the year that physicist Jack Sarfatti, who will come to play a role in the large network of “New Thought” theorists based at places like the Pentagon-funded Esalen Institute, was allegedly receiving phone calls from a “computer” from the future orbiting the planet on a spaceship. He was fourteen at the time, and the computer told him he would be a very succesful physicist and part of a special group of 400 who would basically be tasked with changing the world. Two significant but underemphasized aspects of this “contact” are that he did not really remember much about it until a very long conversation with one of the men building this “new religion” from behind the scenes, and that at the time of this contact he was in a special, military industry funded program for the gifted. (People, PLEASE do not put your kids in special programs for the gifted funded by the military or intelligence agencies.  Sure, they may attain guru status later in life, but it will fuck them up good…) Finally, Sarfatti himself suggests a couple of other folks he has interacted with via Esalen who may be part of this 400 who will figure in our research, John Mack and Danny Sheehan. If you are a big Kucinich fan, you might want to hold off on those campaign donations till we get to Sheehan’s part in all of this.

And, in one of those little bits of synchronicity that make you wonder if there is more going on than simple intel games, another incident in 1952 that will figure in our story was just detailed at Jeff Wells’ Rigorous Intuition site. It relates to some of the “pre-history” of aliens from the planet UMMO (no, I’m not making this up). That the UFO sightings and photographs were hoaxed is beyond dispute, but these “aliens” also provided a huge amount of writing that is still being taken seriously today. The contacts didn’t really begin until the sixties, but the aliens themselves (that is, those who were perpetrating this very elaborate hoax) took “credit” for the macabre events of 1952. It is almost certain that intelligence agencies were involved and some researchers even link the whole affair to the cult of Lyndon Larouche cult, which I personally found of interest as I did not think Larouche, despite a similar brand of fascism that is seemingly always behind these “contacts”, was in any way involved in the UFO world. I haven’t confirmed it yet, and it comes only as a rumor in the book I also recommend about UFO’s as intel operations called Revelations by Jacques Vallee. Vallee was the fellow that the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind was modeled after and he consulted a bit on the film. He’s a believer that UFO’s, in general, represent “something else” but ran into all kinds of hoaxes that seem to originate within various governments. Again, in regards to UMMO, it is almost certain that some government’s intelligence agency or agencies were involved in the creation of this material.

And this was also the year that science fiction writer and occult “magician” L.Ron Hubbard expanded his “Dianetics” into Scientology, arguably the largest and most powerful cult in the world. While Hubbard’s own version of how aliens interact with the earth bears little resemblance to our main themes, Scientology and Hubbard himself will pop up now and again. I simply take it as a given that such a huge, powerful cult as Scientology has all kinds of ties to the intelligence community. (In a weird little eddy in this convoluted stream I’m tracking, I found an interesting expose on Andrija Puharich, a major figure in this inquiry, on Jack Sarfatti’s QED website. In fact, it’s a memo to him from “Terry L. Milner” in 1996. What is particularly interesting is that the only other information I can Google about Milner is that there is a Terry L. Milner who underwent various Scientology trainings in 1988, including the ominous “False Purpose Rundown” that is specifically a sort of concentration camp for “heretics” of Scientologists who are part of the “Sea Org”,  comprising the central Scientology leadership. I don’t know if these two are the same person, but I just wanted to make sure you got enough weirdness in your diet today. )

Speaking of Hubbard, 1952 is also the year Jack Parsons, occultist and rocket scientist was killed in an explosion in his lab. Accused of having been a spy for various governments and also involved, along with Hubbard, in Aleister Crowley’s occult world, he too, figures into our story.

We aren’t done yet. 1952 was the year a huge UFO flap occurred over Washington D.C. There were witness sightings, radar tracking and planes were even scrambled. Who knows, maybe that one was an actual UFO case, but given the players involved (Wright Patterson Airforce Base, for example) I think this may have all been staged. By the way, it is not my intention to “debunk” actual UFO sightings. There are an awful lot of them that remain unexplained, a very large number in 1952, in fact, during the time before the subject had been publicly discredited. Some writers theorize that a lot of the disinfo that is being put out is specifically to cover up the truth of UFO’s. While I don’t discount this as one possible motivation, I will be concentrating on other agendas which I think are rather easy to prove. And while some of the “nuts and bolts” sightings will be of interest to us, it’s primarily the “message” of the UFO’s that we will focus on.

I’m going to end today with one specific case of “alien contact” via “channeling”. This case also is from the early fifties and has all the elements of what we will see again and again.

The channeler in question was named Dorothy Martin. According to Picknett and Price, it was actually 1953 in which she began noticing her “mediumship” abilities. However, it fits right in with the rest of the goings on of 1952 and it’s likely that the groundwork was being laid for this little “experiment” the year before.

Martin began by channeling messages from her dead father, but soon the messages were coming from “extraterrestrials”. I want to emphasize very strongly that, when you first start reading the history of the “contactee” movement, it looks like a bunch of whackos who are all jumping on a popular occult bandwagon. However, what has impressed me is how obvious and definitive the connections are among many of the most important and influential of these contactees and their connections to the the military/intel community.

Soon after she begain channeling aliens a little cultish group formed around Martin. Among them were Dr. Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian. Charles became the movement’s spokesman (and to some, he was a sort of provocateur.) The Martins, returning from a time as Protestant missionaries to Egypt (likely meaning they were spies), had their “spiritual awakening” via reading the works of Pelley and meeting George Adamski. As far as I know, the Martin cult was the first overt experiment in the manipulation of the “end times” message. While there’s no definitive evidence that the CIA was involved, it is common knowledge that a group of university researchers infiltrated the group. They even wrote a book about it, When Prophecy Fails.

The reason Picknett and Price think some intelligence agency or at least some very earthly actors were manipulating Martin is that not all of her contacts were channeled. She received phone calls and was even visited by a group of five men claiming to be the very aliens who were communicating with her. The researchers witnessed this meeting and said Martin emerged very emotional from her conversation with the group. Now, oddly (according to Picknett and Price anyway, as I’ve yet to read When Prophecy Fails), the researchers don’t acknowledge this meeting as a significant barrier to the “collective delusion” hypothesis they put forward. The five men were clearly not a delusion. I can only assume the researchers either arranged the meeting themselves or knew who did, or they would most certainly have remarked about how odd it was to have the delusions walking into Martin’s living room and maybe even… you know…RESEARCH who those visitors were?

So at the very least, this is some very unethical research going on. However, the story does not end with the failed prophecy of doom. Fetsinger et al, the researchers in question, are often cited when discussing how failed prophecies can actually increase loyalty to a cult or belief system, but in this case, the Martin group broke up. However, it’s where Martin went to recuperate from this trauma that is of interest. She headed, you see, to a Dianetics center, having been, say Picknett and Price, a follower of Dianetics “for some time.”

But she was not done, as she and the Laugheads and another in that same network, George Hunt Williamson, founded the “Abbey of the Seven Rays” at the instruction of the same aliens who had failed in their prophecy. There, she began putting forward a lot of familiar (to readers of this blog, anyway) themes of Atlantis rising and a new Savior emerging. She returned to the U.S. in 1961 and continued to preach until her death in ‘88.

But that, too, is not the whole story. Because two years later, the Laugheads would meet Andrija Puharich in Mexico. Like Puharich, they had been receiving messages via a channeler in touch with entities from outer space. Not long after the meeting, they sent him some transcripts of the readings, which were identical to those coming from “the Nine.”

We won’t get into the Nine today…it’s a very, very long and complex subject. However, one thing that bothers me about Stargate Conspiracy is the occasional lapses into credulity by the authors. Much of the early history of the Nine comes to us via Puharich, the central figure in the affair. Puharich never channeled them himself but was always present during the sessions which always necessitated his putting the channeler into a hypnotic trance. (Combine this fact with the knowledge that another acknowledged pursuit of Puharich was the invention of incredibly small radio transmitters designed to “help the deaf hear” and you start to get into some very disturbing stuff.) In fact, it is my hypothesis, for now anyway, that much of the most amazing aspects of the story of the Nine were inventions of Puharich. And when not simply making shit up, it was Puharich using various techniques involving hypnosis, psychoactive drugs and technological gizmos to make others believe in the Nine.

And there’s one other really disturbing aspect to the Puharich story that I’ll mention briefly here. One of his projects involved bringing children to his compound to live. Ostensibly, he was looking for those with psychic talent, but his approach involved unmonitored hypnosis on the children. No safegaurds. No witnesses. That’s creepy. It also recalls to mine the “gifted” program attended by Jack Sarfatti when he was a boy. Sarfatti himself acknowledges that he may somehow have been “programmed” to participate in some capacity in this scheme, whatever its purpose turns out to be.

You’ll have to wait a bit before I can get back to the Nine. I have too much reading yet to do and I’m also really regretting this blog format for such a complex topic. At the very least, it should be a web page so that all the various aspects can easily be tracked via hyperlinks, etc. But let me end with a summary.

1. Many of the aspects of this intelligence involvement in the contactee movement (which will evolve into much of current “New Age” thought) really got rolling in the early fifties.

2. While it is unclear how much of the specific message being brought forward by various contactee movement is of importance to the agencies behind the scenes, the messages involve themes that can be traced back to Nazi “religion” which itself is an outgrowth of 19th centry Western occultism (e.g. that of Helene Blavatsky and Alice Bailey) and Freemasonic lore. Themes of a previous cataclysm which shaped our history, contact with higher space beings, classification of a sort of racial hierarchy and hints of a coming “New Age” (often via another major cataclysm) are prevalent. Oh, and all the space brothers hate the Jews.

3. Much of the initial nucleus for this movement were, unsurprisingly, members of various occult and political groups which just so happen to have the same ideology as those outlined in number two.

4. In addition to putting out these themes, another aspect of this phenomenon seems to be the psychological manipulation of individuals and groups. We’ll see connections to the CIA’s MK-ULTRA program (in fact we already have with our mention of Puharich as he was contracted to research various psychoactive substances) and we have already seen one instance where, at the very least, a university team deliberately manipulated a cult for research purposes.

5. It is likely that often more than one agenda is at work so this can get confusing. For example, learning how to manipulate cults was one agenda behind the Martin case, but the content of the”aliens” message is consistent with messages being put out by other such manipulated groups. As we’ll see, this message, especially as conveyed by the Nine, will have such an impact on the “New Age” movement, that it is not too far reaching to suggest that the entire New Age movement is a product of the Pentagon and CIA. Exactly WHY that is happening is a somewhat trickier issue.

Unfortunately, my work week is cranking back up to normal so my output will likely slow down. Rest assured it is not for lack of interest. And also be aware that though we have started in the mid 20th century, this agenda is very much alive and, in fact, continues to gain in political and social influence.