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In 1972, NASA, the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency received orders from President Richard Nixon to schedule 100% covert manned lunar missions. To accomplish this remarkable feat, “Tricky Dick†publicly announced the cancelation of future planned Apollo Missions Eighteen, Nineteen and Twenty – “unfortunate budgetary cuts†was the excuse given, although the total amount saved totaled less than a mere $42 million. Since those missions didn’t officially exist, on paper, a clandestine launch site was established off the West Coast near Lompoc, California at the U.S. Space Command’s Vandenberg Air Force Base – one of the few viable remote staging grounds that could accommodate a heavy rocket lift off.
Two years later, Apollo 18′s lunar module “Liberty†touched down on the surface of the moon’s dark side. It’s DOD crew secretly carried out their top-secret EVA’s as planned but, unfortunately, Apollo 18 never safely returned to earth. Whatever data Apollo 18 had collected and whatever alien discoveries were made remained a mystery.
In his final months as CIA Director, Allen Dulles made it clear that under no circumstances would any U.S. President or his national security staff be briefed or given access to classified UFO files. Days later, the President was assassinated. This was likely a direct result of Kennedy’s efforts to gain access to the CIA’s top secret files.
JFK & CIA Director Dulles
Unknown to Kennedy, a set of secret MJ-12 directives issued by Allen Dulles, proscribed any cooperation with Kennedy and his national security staff on the UFO issue. It was Dulles and another six unknown MJ-12 members who sanctioned the directives in a document – including a political assassination directive against non-cooperative officials in the Kennedy administration – which was subsequently burned.
While Dulles and his six associates pre-authorized the assassination of Kennedy, it was the CIA counterintelligence chief who gave the final orders that culminated in Kennedy’s assassination. In doing so, James Angleton arranged for a communist defector – U.S. Marine Corp. sharpshooter Lee Harvey Oswald – to be recruited by known CIA “asset†Clay Shaw. This was designed to implicate the Soviets, ensuring that any federal investigation or congressional hearing would be misled. It also allowed the CIA to successfully argue to the Warren Commission, through Allen Dulles who was a member, that a thorough investigation was too dangerous due to the risk of nuclear war.
Warren Commission
CIA officials complicit in the Kennedy assassination were likely acting to preserve the CIA’s institutional power and influence through its control of UFO information. Trigger man Oswald’s testimony would have certainly confirmed the grim facts behind the assassination, so he too was conveniently executed during a prisoner transfer amid suspiciously lax security.
Oswald shot by Jack Ruby
The CIA’s extreme efforts to prevent a Soviet-American UFO alliance would be short lived, however. A few short years later, astonishing discoveries by NASA and the USSR would cement the co-operation of the two cold war space programs and governments. But the CIA’s culpability still remains shrouded in secrecy…