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Prying open the CIA's X-Files

James Woolsey
James Woolsey

Leon Panetta in his upcoming position as Director of Central Intelligence is expected to be more than just a dependable ally for President-Elect Obama in the tough world of national intelligence. As the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1993-1994) and Chief of Staff to President Clinton (1994-1997), Panetta brings much executive office experience and mental toughness. He will need all that and more to force the CIA to disclose its X-Files on UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

The last time a democratic administration recruited an outsider to head the CIA and pry open its secrets resulted in dismal failure. James Woolsey lacked the experience and mental toughness to get the CIA to release its X-Files. Woolsey admitted privately that he had approached the CIA to reveal its secret files on UFOs but was denied access. Woolsey said:  "You know, they are treating me like a bag-man, that goes up to Capitol Hill, gets their 30 billion dollars for the intelligence community, and brings it back. You know I really don’t know anything that’s going on that’s sensitive."

Woolsey’s CIA subordinates refused to give him access to UFO information and used many forms of subterfuge to frustrate his efforts. According to one senior national security official, Woolsey “was too trusting, and that made him easy prey. He wasn’t ready for people lying to him when he was loyal to them."  Woolsey ultimately failed in getting the CIA to reveal anything more than a sanitized report of public sightings of UFOs released in 1996 that was titled: the "CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-1990."  

Panetta’s stint as Clinton’s Chief of Staff indicates that he has the mental toughness to take on a vast intelligence bureaucracy that is skilled in deception, and denying ‘intelligence outsiders’ access to the CIA’s X-Files. Panetta will need to identify key subordinates in the CIA who have the keys to the CIA’s X-Files. Career officers like Stephen Kappes a 27 year agency veteran who became Deputy Director for Operations in 2004, and is currently Deputy Director of the CIA, will undoubtedly have access. Kappes will need to be pressured by Panetta to turn over the keys and disclose what he knows.

A major challenge for Panetta and Obama will be the support for Kappes from Senator Diane Feinstein, the incoming Chair for the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence. Feinstein’s initial support for Kappes promotion to CIA Director suggests that she will be a major Congressional backer of intelligence insiders. 

As someone who grew up as a Haoli (Hawaiian term for ‘outsider’) in Honolulu, President Elect Obama understands the need for confronting those within the CIA that wish to deny access to ‘Haolis’ appointed to the CIA. Obama has done very well to appoint an individual with the necessary mental toughness to be the CIA Director and confront the CIA bureaucracy. Panetta is not going to be satisfied in merely being the CIA’s bag man to the U.S. Congress.

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Dr. Michael Salla popularized exopolitics with online analyses of secret government policies concerning extraterrestrial life. What others are...

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  • James Black 3 years ago
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    I agree with Dr. Michael Salla. Leon Panetta is an excellent choice as CIA director, but this choice has nothing to do with UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life.
    Leon Panetta has a lot of work to do in the Central Intelligence Agency.
    Central themes are the despolitization of CIA and the elimination of illegal methods of interrogation.
    Not less important problems are the CIA clandestine centers of detention that presumably exist in different countries.
    But the idea that Panetta's nomination will bring us some kind of UFO disclosure is unsustainable.
    Most people do not see UFOs as a problem.
    For them, UFOs are just floating memes given in films, toys and urban folklore.
    To think that the so called Disclosure will be a priority in the Obama administration is unrealistic and only believable for the few of us who are interested in Ufology.

  • George LoBuono 3 years ago
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    The main challenge for Obama, as for any president on this planet, is to ovecome the years of festering corruption and apparent sabotage of internal human governmental integrity via the breeding program of the so-called "gray" aliens' alignment, plus their oft-reported trickle down of technology to that same reactionary cabal typified by David Rockefeller.

    An honest US president will have to encourage good, honest people to diverge from a narco-dealing, child sex slave trading black budget cabal in order to do a real disclosure. As has happened in the case of minor satellites of previous human regimes, the grays' alignment doesn't appear to want independent human integrity that might result in disclosure, then governments that might ask them to leave our vicinity. Phillip Corso noted this very real possibility. Other whistleblowers have hinted at it indirectly.

    In other words, as Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs have asserted, those particular aliens have made dangerous inroads into human structures. And, as the case of the "tall whites" reported by Charles Hall suggests abundantly, such aliens can be violent when allowed to base themselves here. The very people who will fight Obama's inquiry about aliens have been over their heads, if not bizarrely compromised, for decades. The aliens in question consider such humans simple-minded and easy to manipulate. But when the human mainstream gets wind of the tall whites, grays allowed into US defense installations, the breeding program, and the fate of the original gray planet (killed during what may have been just such an "intervention") expect to see a more wary, cautious human distance from the gray alignment.

  • Shol'va 3 years ago
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    UFOs does not pose a threat to national security. That has been concluded from several scientific studies. Full stop.
    Hence there is no need to waste taxpayers money to investigate these things. Private UFOlogist organisations have continued the work of Project Bluebook - for decades. And zero results.

    Humanity has much more important problems to solve then discovering the real nature behind lights in the skies.

  • Mr X 3 years ago
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    The "lights in the sky" has a lot of answers for humanity Shol'va.

    Their technology can be used for clean and free energy that can solve our looming energy/climate crisis.

  • femtobeam 1 year ago
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    The real secret is the use of UFO's and aliens as excuses for secret underground bases. The disinformation campaign is obviously in full swing when a corrupt cabal of drug dealing, child sex ring traders can hide behind a completely false representation of "extraterrestrial threats" like a decoy. It sounds a lot like Iraq. If these amazing, and probably highly intelligent and gentle beings exist, they are probably in helpless tortured conditions, being deposed of their information for the Asian buyers of technology to manufacture, like the scientists are.

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