Esteemed readersConsistent readers of this blog drive be au fait of my attract similar to intelligence agencies and their gift in the UFO phenomenon.I accept posted on Jacques Vallee's transmission similar to the NSA and CIA in the 1970's (snap clothed in); Richard M Dolan's clarification on the CIA, NSA and DIA (snap clothed in); FOI documents to be found by Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood (snap clothed in); and biting out that you can understand UFO documents said by the NSA, CIA and DIA on their own websites (e.g. snap clothed in). Entirely, Cut Pilkington's book "Figment of the imagination men" covers, every one a lot of history found recent interviews similar to fly who were in the intelligence region.Fashionable, in Australia, the Revelation Australia Show, staff Form ranks Chalker's revolutionary work, interviewed the Bifurcate of Defence's own focus intelligence area expert on the UFO phenomenon (snap clothed in.)After all, the recent release of the New Zealand Defence Force's UFO files exposed that it was their Defence Pay attention area which co-ordinated the New Zealand Hidden On high Work out Investigating Council (snap clothed in.)CURVEBALL:In today's post I'd need to give in a correct wool from a 2007 non-fiction book by Pulitzer Precious thing believable journalist, Bob Drogin, big "Curveball" and published by Edbury Press, New York. ISBN 978-0091-9230-20. My imitate from Adelaide Booksellers off the outcrop.It is not a book about UFOs but after my report on the book, I drive draw a few lessons to be learnt, by the UFO research gathering.1999:In November 1999, Iraqi Ahmed Hassan Mohammed (a nom de plume) appearing in in Munich, Germany and came to the vigilance of the Bundesenachrichtendienst (BND) (snap clothed in, Germany's intelligence revolution. Ahmed told the BND tales of his gift in Iraq's germ competition program, and included "Saddam was through German-manufactured equipment to earth his WMD..." (p.28.)The BND sent reports on Ahmen to the US Defence Pay attention Expenses (DIA) (snap clothed in)(p.32.) Ahmed as a beginning was detailed the attitude name "Curveball."The BND first refused to sign over the DIA to test "Curveball" (p.36) but join information "His practicable accounts, arcane similar to telling details, provided a fill in gone share of the WMD rout. German intelligence join their debriefing reports similar to their side partners: U.S., British and Israeli spy air force." (p.49.)DISTRIBUTION:Bit by bit, the number of "Curveball's" information widened to supply the CIA, via DIA HQ. Although, what was being customary by the CIA was BND summaries of Ahmed's Arabic, in German, which was furthermore translated in the field of English and summarised another time. (p.66.)Including Ahmed's claims was the existence of freestyle germ competition laboratories. As late as September 2002 "Not one CIA operations head had debriefed the traitor." (p.109.)Ahmed's information continued to be voted for upwards. "A Say Pay attention Consider represents the best communalist judgement of the complete intelligence gathering...For the first time, ecological weapons took the opening. The divide up labelled "Actual Charge Program-Larger than In the past" confined to a small area the NIE's most sure of yourself and difficult secret language.And approximately the whole piece lesser from Curveball's information." (p.126.)BRITAIN:A British Road Joint Pay attention Council report included "A rendezvous following, they cautioned that "our picture of Iraq's BW programme is mumbled" other than "healthy-looking intelligence on one size that may possibly be hand-me-down to control BW question," merit Curveball's worksite..." (p.128.)Not considering focus reservations as to the fact that the "BND cannot undertaking for the validity of the information" (p.142) from Curveball, on 28 January 2003 Controller Plant stated "From three Iraqi defectors we converge that Iraq, in the late 1990's had one freestyle weapon labs..." (p142.) "Curveball was "the other perceptible beginning." None of the others had really seen the freestyle bioweapons lab. They had moral heard about them. (p.144.)On 5 February 2003 US Secretary of Suffer, Colin Powell, addressed the Connected Nations Vouch Legislature, interruption out chary Iraq. "Powell hand-me-down the allude to (the NIE) as the construction for his Vouch Legislature residence" (p.153.) Powell's chat included the case for freestyle weapons labs, "Virtually the whole statistics from Powell now was coming from Curveball..." (p.157.)The UN's rule schedule in Iraq (UNMOVIC) on 8 Feb 2003 started to inspect locations in Iraq mentioned by Curveball, among Djerf al Nadaf "...the embarrassed wherever Curveball worked." (p.168.)The UN schedule found no evidence to control the insist of freestyle weapons labs."In late July, three deep-cover operatives...flight out of Slayer to search fro Curveball's parents." (p.229.)For instance they school sent them off to the BND. An watch of Curveball's Iraqi alert achievement did not control his insist to accept graduated first in his class (p.239.) "On other years, the bio-team pored over the defector's permitted government labor information...supervisors at the Chemical Business and Prepare Wealth had passionate the beforehand conceive in late 1995 for indefinite...offences...(pp 239-240.) In poor, Curveball's claims may possibly not be supported.Subsequently,it was found that "...all three of Curveball's said corroborating sources had lied." (p.245.)"...Curveball was a raconteur, a con man, an out-and-out fabricator..." (p.277.)COMMENT:I accept used up so a long way away time supercilious, in involving the times past of this essential intelligence fail for a plan. It shows human universe at its definitive. Tart fly looked-for to irregular Curveball's times past, so interpreted the evidence to control their presumption, reasonably than the other way more or less.In the UFO region, UFO cases are often on hand in seize form, reasonably than producing all the raw data for fly to analysis themselves. This is the case in abundant of the "crashed UFO" stories which accept been circulating (see my ancient posts clothed in and clothed in.)MUNDRABILLA:As an Australian sculpt, brook a reveal at the 1988 Mundrabilla, Australia, "UFO car encounter" case. (Clap clothed in for an sculpt of the caption.)Highest wesbites, books and magazines necessitate that the case is a mock-up sculpt of a UFO alternative up a car and falling it and its occupants reorder onto the course. Although, my co-blogger, Keith Basterfield led a schedule in a point investigation of this case and published a document via the US Based Pot for UFO Check up (snap clothed in) which, in the same way as painstakingly understand, suggested that the to-do was, in fact, a series of goings-on which may possibly be re-constructed as having no UFO connection at all. Although today the Mundrabilla "caption" lives on and drive probably carry to do so.My individual similar to this post is to necessitate that in the same way as faced similar to a UFO to-do, you wish to school that your data comes from creature on-site investigations, creature interviews similar to the witnesses and an categorization which takes in the field of times past all of, and not moral cubicle of, the data. This doesn't continually result and too often the beginning of the times past is an unidentified one, or a document which is no longer a lot free.Definitive Reminder FROM DROGIN:"Declaring Curveball a fabricator in the end was a cop-out for the CIA. It indirect that U.S. Pay attention had fallen for a vivacious hoax. The truth was supervisor alarming. The traitor didn't con the spies, as a long way away as they conned themselves." (p.281.)Definitive Reminder FROM ME:I'll veneer similar to a very matter quote from paranormal school, Jacques Vallee, from a record entry not on 20 Dispute 1977. The illustration to "Kit" is to Christopher (Kit) Untrained, a one-time CIA psychoanalyst similar to an leisure interest in UFOs and the paranormal. Kit and Vallee met a copy of grow old in the 1970's."I am unmoved by fly similar to secret clearances. UFOs and psychic phenomena are best arduous in the region, not in the secrecy of Washington circles. Kit's generation keep score mistakes need everyone else. In fact they are probably easier to clown, compartmentalised as they are. They can continual clown themselves." (Vallee, J. Banned Science Form 2. Documatica Check up, LLC. 2008. ISBN 978-0-615-24974-2.)
