JFK assassination and UFO's???

ZRRIFLE

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Dec 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/18/97

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I realize this is a long shot, but has anyone discovered any links
between The Grand Conspiracy as it relates to JFK, and all this
sensationalized pseudo-science about UFOs and abductions and alien
invasions? I don't believe there is the slightest grain of truth to
alien contact, but the whole alien mythology has American and British
intelligence fingerprints all over it. It seems peculiar to me that we
can find definite relationships stemming from the JFK assassination
branching to all kinds of government agencies, private industries,
radical political organizations, and events such as viet nam, watergate,
iran-contra-arms-drugs-hostages, etc., but nowhere have I seen any of
these things relate to UFO's? And yet here is this whole alien/ufo
thing which gets at least as much bookstore shelf space as does JFK and
related scandals.

Of course I am aware of the garbage dreamed up by Bill Cooper (or his
handlers) and promoted by John Lear, alleging that JFK was hit because
he was going to expose the truth about UFOs.

Oh, and was anyone besides me horrified to learn that Jim Marrs
(Crossfire: the Plot to Kill JFK) has a new pro-UFO/alien book out?

Please lets not get sidetracked onto a discussion of UFO's. If you
don't know of any connections between these two subjects then kindly
skip to the next thread and avoid polluting this NG even further than it
already is.

Thanks.

Howpl

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Dec 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/18/97

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One connection:

Col. Corso - who just published "The Day After Roswell" - was head of the
Foreign Technology Division of the Army, claimed direct Roswell role, and was
friendly with Hoover. His book makes a couple of references to the
understanding he shared with Hoover that knowing too much could get a guy -
i.e., a president - killed. Corso's book has been called disinformation re
UFOs. Posters to the Internet have alleged that he played a role in the JFK
thing by spreading rumors that Jack Ruby was a Commie. Corso was very far
right wing - apparently involved in smuggling in ex-Nazi scientists. That
juicy enough for ya?

ZRRIFLE

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Dec 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/19/97

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Yes, thanks much. It all sounded pretty ho-hum til ya got to the right
wing/ex-nazi part. That will give me somenthing to chew on for a while.

Us14west

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Dec 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/20/97

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I heard that General Cabell was behind Project Blue Book while director of USAF
Intel in 1952. Significance? Probably none.

ZRRIFLE

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Dec 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/20/97

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Us14west wrote:
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> I heard that General Cabell was behind Project Blue Book while director of USAF
> Intel in 1952. Significance? Probably none.

That would be an interesting thread to pursue - to find out more about
Cabell's politics and what Blue Book's philosophy was under his
direction, etc.

Another name that has rung a bell is Paris Flammonde, who wrote "UFO
exist!", a rather good book of the pro-ufo sort, and was also involved
in the investigation of JFK. I forget how - he was like one of the
assistant counsel for the WC or HSCA or something, and also wrote a JFK
assassination book.

I agree that the significance of these connections is probably none. I
guess the connection and am looking for would fall under the heading of
"Disinformation and Manipulation of Public Beliefs", but just because I
can come up with a heading like that doesn't mean there is any such
connection. Just a suspicion.

Martin Shackelford

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Dec 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/20/97

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Flammonde was unconnected to either the WC or HSCA investigations, as
far as I know. He wrote an interesting book about the early Garrison
investigation, published in 1969.

Martin