EFR Executive Director Erica Lukes welcomes this writer, Jack Brewer, to the Friday, Oct. 4, 7pm Eastern episode of Expanding Frontiers. Discussion topics will include information covered in the latest EFR video, NICAP Origin Story, published along with the accompanying blogpost, 1950s Psychological Warfare, Intelligence Collection, UFOs and Fascism.
Even more details will be considered of the likelihood the CIA was involved in launching the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena in 1956. NICAP went on to successfully lobby for Congressional UFO hearings and become the largest UFO organization ever assembled.
Learn more about psychological warfare expert, NICAP organizer, and almost certain CIA asset, Nicholas de Rochefort. Find out what the well-connected, Russian-born Frenchman had in common with New York attorney and CIA Deputy Director Desmond FitzGerald.
Hear about how Counsel Services, a public relations firm that incorporated NICAP, represented CIA officer Col. Ulius Amoss. The flamboyant career intelligence official alerted the Air Force and Project Blue Book in 1952 to what turned out to be a UFO hoax, while the Office of Special Investigations officer assigned to the case was never able to conclusively determine where certain aspects of Amoss's account originated.
Letters exchanged from 1961-1965 between former DCI Roscoe Hillenkoetter and Dr. Howard Menzel will be discussed. The Harvard astronomer took exception to Hillenkoetter privately expressing skepticism about UFOs, while simultaneously communicating conflicting messages to the public and NICAP frontman Donald Keyhoe. Copies of the letters were obtained from the American Philosophical Society Library where they are preserved.
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