An on-going topic of interest to UFO junkies is the apparent lack or otherwise of government interest in their deliberate attempts to access assumed classified information about extraterrestrial visitations.The primary psychological force appears to be a belief that the government holds all of the secrets. Even if the government retains an extensive library of information about the alleged problem of "illegal aliens" from other worlds, is there any reason to believe that government bureaucracy would be superior to private party efforts to manage the issue?Even the spy trade has shifted towards contracting of privately managed operations to conduct intelligence collection. An interesting point that came up recently: private firms use of "open-source" intelligence gathering is not limited to contracts with the U.S. Government. It is fully possible that private intelligence firms gather "open" (unclassified) intelligence for foreign governments.The demarcation point would appear to be the use of "elicitation" to access information from sources: in many situations the sources might remain unaware that information they provide is of potential operation use for the right party.Elicitation is an effective and often subtle method of getting a source to open up and provide badly needed information required to advance and agenda. Anyone who has had the experience of working with a master salesperson has experienced this method. The similarity between the sales game and the spy game is not coincidental.Typically both involve a gentle nudge to the shopper, or the source in an intelligence elicitation, to feel relaxed about opening a dialog with the agent seeking information. More than likely the first stages involve gentle discussions of a general nature, to build a comfort zone around the source.Once a source is relaxed enough, the next step is to gradually increase interest in the personal life of the source. In sales this is done to gather information about a shopper's needs, with the intention of selling them a product. In the spy game, this is a means of obtaining a product: the information required by a spy's client.The subtle game of elicitation continues, allowing either a salesperson to gain intimate knowledge of a shopper's needs in order to provide an effective sales presentation, or in the case of a spy, to allow effective sharing of information between the source and the spy.Counter-intelligence activities are intended to infiltrate the spy game and, when possible, to effectively turn the tables and elicit information from the spy. In these situations, allowing an existing elicitation network to continue operation is of greater benefit than arresting the offenders and shutting it down.Counter-intelligence operations may gain considerable amounts of valuable information about the spy's client. At the very least, monitoring of the spy's elicitation determines the kind of information the client is interested in obtaining, which provides important clues about the client's other activities.Another benefit is the input of disinformation to the elicitation process.Disinformation can be useful in many ways: providing false leads can confuse or consume the spy's client's resources, program the client's operation in ways that reveal the network structure behind the client's efforts, and so on.All of this is merely the background to the issue currently at hand: why are UFO-junkies allowed to elicit assumed classified information from sensitive sources?Whether or not the government retains classified information about extraterrestrial issues (they do) is not the issue.The best explanation -- the counter-intelligence game -- requires government monitoring of networks of UFOlogists. Investigative reporter Gus Russo has confirmed what many of us already knew: officials of the government, some at very high levels, do maintain an interest in the networks.Our best confirmation came directly from a Senior Intelligence Official who requested that we avoid revealing methods, as methods are more important than sources.A question remains: when a wealthy individual pays for the elicitation of classified information through a party with ties to other individuals formerly in possession of classified information in their capacity as employees of the government -- should we interpret the failure of official "overt" investigation in the public arena to mean an on-going counter-intelligence operation is in place, or was that individual acting on the behalf of intelligence officials in the first place?
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