From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #646 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: Skunk Works Digest Friday, 12 April 1996 Volume 05 : Number 646 In this issue: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual Re: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft Re: Ramjets Secrecy Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? Re: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft Why? Please take me off this list Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual Re: Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual Re: Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual The Aviary (fwd)(1/2) "Anyone heard of this.... See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:34:44 -0700 Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual >> Hello Skunkers... I was reading the SR-71 Pilot's Manual book and >I still want to find if anyone know about the 81 pages missing... It's fairly obvious to me why most of them are missing. Most of them are in the reconnaissance systems, navigation, and defensive systems chapters. A few pages are in the inlet aft bypass section of the manual. Larry ------------------------------ From: ConsLaw@aol.com Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:23:28 -0400 Subject: Re: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft Charles E. Smith wrote in response to Paul McGinnis's research into a project known as Senior Citizen: "what is your interest in this program (senoir citizen)and why do you feel compelled to get the facts? Are you doing this as a hobby, do you consider yourself a "public watchdog", or do you suspect this to be part of some conspiracy by the government?" I too believe that Paul is doing a patriotic service. Paul uses open sources and draws inferences from them. This information is also available to the Russians, and anybody else who wants to look through it. What hurt US intelligence in the case of the Ames scandal was not the disclosure of secret information as much as the lack of knowledge that secrecy was breeched. The powers that be can, do, and should take notice of Paul's disclosures and should understand that others studying the same sources have probably reached the same conclusions independently. Keep in mind that Paul is one individual doing this on a part-time basis. One could reasonably expect that foreign intelligence services have put more resources into the task. Ben Rich estimated that 25% of the "black" budget goes simply to keeping projects secret. The overall "black budget has been estimated at $28 billion, approximately 10% of the total military budget. If you could save 5-7 billion in the costs of secrecy, we would (a) have a more open government which receives more support and respect from the citizens, and (b) we could re-direct resources saved to other uses ("guns", "butter", or just reducing the deficit.) Less secrecy would mean that civilian applications of military technology would be accellerated. If one of the principal strengths of the U.S. economy is our technology base, then policies which enhance the use of this base strengthen the economy. - - Steve Hofer aka conslaw ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:18:13 -0700 Subject: Re: Ramjets Michael Chappell writes: >I've been reading the book 'SKUNK WORKS' by Ben Rich and Leo Janos and >in this book Rich talks about the D-21 drone. He mentions that this drone >is built using a Marquardt ramjet to propel it. How does this ramajet work >and how does it differ from other ramjet configurations? Can anyone help me >with this one?? The D-21 uses a version of the Marquardt RJ-43 engine which was developed for the BOMARC Surface to Air Missile. So it is not a specially designed ramjet engine. The engine did share parts with other RJ-43 versions but it had it's own special parts too that didn't fit on other RJ-43's. I was able to see the maintenance manual for the D-21's RJ-43 one evening. It was an RJ-43 manual modified with newer handwritten and typed pages. Since the D-21 had great speed and range and was completely autonomous (and this was in 1963 !!!! we're not talking 1990's UAV technology here guys !!!!), the engine needed to be very reliable. Being able to take a reliable engine off the shelf was a big cost savings here. As far as how ramjets work, I would check out a good engineering library with an aerospace engineering section. Find a textbook on aerospace propulsion engineering (there are many). Look up ramjet and read the material. Eventually you'll find a book that does a fairly good job of explaining it at your level. Some of the older popular books on aerospace propulsion, are good too. The most obvious differences between the D-21's RJ-43 and the BOMARC's RJ-43 are the lack of a forward cowl on the D's engine. You can see the complete inlet spike on the D's engine. This is because the D's RJ-43 is buried way in the back of the fuselage in the D, and it doesn't need a cowl and the cowl would restrict flow. They left the inlet spike on the D's engine because the fuel control for the ramjet is in there and it would have been expensive and unnecessary to replace it with a different design. So an existing engine was pressed into service in a new way than it had been used before. Some people have looked at the D's propulsion configuration and seen the 2 spikes (one in the nose of the D and one on the RJ-43 in the back of the D) and assumed that there was supersonic flow in the duct because of the presence of the spike on the RJ-43 in the tail of the fuselage. This is not the case, although the idea is interesting and possibly applicable to future systems. When one spends some time around/inside a D-21, one realizes that this sucker is one LONG ramjet engine! The inlet is QUITE LONG as the actual RJ-43 sits way at the back of the fuselage. In fact I have heard Marquardt people mention that it was the world's longest ramjet. In the Q-bay there is a lot of insulation on the bottom of the inlet duct as it passes through the top of the Q-bay. This is to shield the electronics in the Q-bay from the heat. There is also a lot of insulation on the inside walls of the airframe in the Q-bay to keep the airframe heat of Mach 3 flight away from the electronics. In fact the port side aft vent is a Q-bay heat vent. Some of the insulation pieces are custom fit pieces to fit in specific places inside the Q-bay. For power generation, in the Q-bay, they tapped off the inlet duct and route it into a turbine. The cooler air coming out of the turbine blows on the electronics. The power electronics (relays and junk) are on the aft Q-bay bulkhead. On the forward Q-bay wall there is an interesting connector to the inlet buzz sensor. I believe this may feed into the flight computer on the Q-bay pallet when hooked up, so that when inlet buzz is sensed the flight computer compensates to un-buzz the inlet. Larry ------------------------------ From: dougt@u011.oh.vp.com (Doug Tiffany) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 96 16:06:40 EDT Subject: Secrecy As long as we're on the thread, and it's kind of quiet: I enjoy reading Paul's postings. I'm fascinated by the military and what it's accomplished. So, naturally, I'm very interested in what I'm not supposed to know. I was an avid reader of the Groom Lake Desert Rat until it got a little too "psycho". - -- A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of house I live in, how much is in my bank account, or what kind of car I drive, but the world may be a different place because I was important in the life of a child. Douglas J. Tiffany dougt@u011.oh.vp.com Varco-Pruden Buildings Van Wert, Ohio ------------------------------ From: BaDge Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:09:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 larry@ichips.intel.com wrote: > > >> Hello Skunkers... I was reading the SR-71 Pilot's Manual book and > >I still want to find if anyone know about the 81 pages missing... > > It's fairly obvious to me why most of them are missing. Most of them are > in the reconnaissance systems, navigation, and defensive systems > chapters. A few pages are in the inlet aft bypass section of the manual. Other systems missing: Cloaking device Tractor Beam Holodeck... regards, ________ BaDge ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:18:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 larry@ichips.intel.com wrote: > It's fairly obvious to me why most of them are missing. Most of them are Why by you? Did you edit and censure the SR-71 Pilot's Manual book? May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu "In this world, there is only two types of people that is 100% happy: The one that know everything and the one that know nothing..." Master Su Yu-Chang ------------------------------ From: "Terry Colvin" Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 12:58:23 GMT Subject: Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? I concur with Bill's statements. ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ Subject: Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? Author: Bill Riddle at FHU2 Date: 11/04/1996 0757 Paul McGinnis' naivet is amazing. He seems to be well informed ... but he brings that in question with words like "I figured that since peace was breaking out all over, the military and the intelligence agencies would change their paranoid Cold War mentality..." Anyone who doesn't appreciate the fact that the world is a more dangerous place now than it was before the demise of the "Evil Empire" is shockingly uninformed. Frankly, I think the case for different, but certainly not decreased, defense spending is "... as obvious as a trout in the milk." Unfortunately, for some people, the obvious is obscure. Shortly after the reunification of the Germanies I had occasion to have a conversation with a couple from the former DRG. We talked about this very subject. One of the former communist subjects made the point in these words: "Now is not the time for the US Army to get small." Hear! Hear! Bill Riddle ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 ConsLaw@aol.com wrote: > I too believe that Paul is doing a patriotic service. Paul uses open sources > and draws inferences from them. This information is also available to the > Russians, and anybody else who wants to look through it. What hurt US > intelligence in the case of the Ames scandal was not the disclosure of secret > information as much as the lack of knowledge that secrecy was breeched. The > powers that be can, do, and should take notice of Paul's disclosures and > should understand that others studying the same sources have probably reached > the same conclusions independently. > > Keep in mind that Paul is one individual doing this on a part-time basis. > One could reasonably expect that foreign intelligence services have put more > resources into the task. Good point!!! This is relative with some computers hackers that tried to breaking security codes and find weak points in the security procedure. So, if a hacker that work for our size... we can find the weak point of our system and correct it... otherwise, a enemy could do the same thing with the help of better resources... Paul is doing a relative good service for the security of our black projects!!! May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu "In this world, there is only two types of people that is 100% happy: The one that know everything and the one that know nothing..." Master Su Yu-Chang ------------------------------ From: David Lednicer Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Why? I have been mulling over Chuck Smith's question to Paul, as to why he is so interested in classified programs. I have asked myself this and similar questions many times in the past. Yes, I see Paul's argument about the need for watchdogs. Inside the industry, I have seen secrecy used to cover up some truely wasteful programs (like X-wing). However, I also think there are other forces at work for many of us. It is basic human nature that if someone says "I know something you don't know!", that you will want to find out what it is they are flaunting. On top of this, many of us have intense curiousities. Given a puzzle, my mind is instantly challenged to solve it. Hence, there are many of us constantly looking for clues and trying to put the puzzle together. We are taught to do this in school and some of us never stop. In fact, I would argue that the stength of the United States has been built, in part, upon exceedingly curious minds probing the unknown. The unknown here could be electronics, genetics, engineering, etc. The countries that haven't encouraged this probing are the weaklings of today's world. Now - secrecy. If I am told to keep my mouth shut about something, by someone in authority, I have no problems with this, and I am good about keeping my mouth shut. However, much of what the government tries to hide, no one in authority tells those of us on the outside to keep our mouths shut about. Even worse, if those of us on the outside try to judge it for ourselves, it is hard to build up a case for secrecy. For example - the X-36 was a deep dark secret until the day they rolled it out. What was gained by keeping it secret during the time they were building it? If someone's life is at stake, I can clearly see a need for secrecy, but with many of these secrets, I only see muddy arguments. Additionally, someone's attempt to keep something secret is an attempt for them to keep control. In the United States, we have a tradition of fighting government control, so it is only natural for people to probe the secrets the government keeps, especially when they are flaunted in front of us to the degree they are. Lastly, there are those of us who have an historical perspective. Much of what is secret today is tomorrow's history. If no one shows any interest in perserving the history, it will dissapear. In the case of the U-2, it had a major impact on East-West relations. The US government has not been eager, until recently, to see its role properly credited. This has been left to us. I have been trying to get a copy of the U-2C's loft lines. I have been told that they were all officially thrown away. Luckily, those with a historical perspective kept copies, and they are now working on getting them through security for me, as they are declassified. With this all said, I do think that there are things we should stay mum about, even if we aren't told to do so. I have a secret clearance, but I have never worked on a secure program and only have seen one classified document, but I have heard a lot of gossip and figured a lot out on my own. Knowing that some of this is important to keep secret, I will keep my mouth shut. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lednicer | "Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics" Analytical Methods, Inc. | email: dave@amiwest.com 2133 152nd Ave NE | tel: (206) 643-9090 Redmond, WA 98052 USA | fax: (206) 746-1299 ------------------------------ From: Chad Merritt Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 18:47:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Please take me off this list I unsubsriced via the majordomo, it mail me back saying that the command succeeded, yet I'm still getting all the messages.. Does anyone know why that this is happening??? - -Chad Merritt chad@tortola.usgcc.odu.edu ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:49:22 -0700 Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual >> > > It's fairly obvious to me why most of them are missing. Most of them are >> > Why by you? Did you edit and censure the SR-71 Pilot's Manual book? > Sorry for the stupid question... I missunderstood the sentence... :) And I apologize for any offensive tone in my poor choice of words! Larry ------------------------------ From: dadams@netcom.com (Dean Adams) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual > On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 larry@ichips.intel.com wrote: > > > It's fairly obvious to me why most of them are missing. Most of them are > > Why by you? Did you edit and censure the SR-71 Pilot's Manual book? > He didn't have to, it came that way. :) But if it is not obvious to you why the detailed chapters on the individual sensor/recon packages and the DEFensive avionics systems did not get past the declassification review... well, it should be perfectly obvious! :> ------------------------------ From: chosa@chosa.win.net (Byron Weber) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:03:48 Subject: Re: Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? >Subject: Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? >Author: Bill Riddle at FHU2 >Date: 11/04/1996 0757 > > > Paul McGinnis' naivet is amazing. > ....etc.... > > Frankly, I think the case for different, but certainly not decreased, > defense spending is "... as obvious as a trout in the milk." > > Unfortunately, for some people, the obvious is obscure. > > Shortly after the reunification of the Germanies I had occasion to > have a conversation with a couple from the former DRG. We talked > about this very subject. One of the former communist subjects made > the point in these words: "Now is not the time for the US Army to get > small." > > Hear! Hear! > > Bill Riddle Seems what you think, Mr. Riddle, is shared by the military, and Paul's really got his work cut out for him. Todays NY Times reported the US Military is asking for an additional $15 billion in next years budget for weapons and "other items." Apparently President Clinton promised to increase weapons spending every year for five years until it reached $60 billion by 2001. By asking for the extra billions, the military would step up the rate at which it increases, to $60 billion, by 1998. Gen Shalikashvili thinks we should be spending that much now. Clinton's current request is for $38.9 billion. With all the mergers and lay offs, look to the defense industry for future opportunities.. By the way, anyone know how their going to pay for it all? What happened to balancing the budget? Byron Weber ------------------------------ From: Wei-Jen Su Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:57:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual I am sending this message again since I didn't get this message from the list... Sorry if this you got this already... But I guess some of the folks in here still trying to get the SR-71 pilot's manual and can't get it... BTW, the cost is $99.95 for the book and plus shipping and tax is about $111.95. I telephone for the Air and Space Museum Shop is: (202) 357-1387. May the Force be with you Su Wei-Jen E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu "In this world, there is only two types of people that is 100% happy: The one that know everything and the one that know nothing..." Master Su Yu-Chang On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Wei-Jen Su wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Martin Gimersky wrote: > > > Hi! > > If I may ask: Would you know about a place where a copy of the Manual > > can be obtained? > > I've been trying to buy one for about a year or so, but wherever I ask, > > it is no longer available, out of stock. > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > - Martin > > ---- > > I had the same problem too!! I was looking for this book for more > than half year. All the bookstore said out of print or they don't have it > anymore... But, finally, I just got it from National Air and Space Museum > bookstore in Washington DC. You don't have to go there... just make a > call to themand they will send you the book. Their homepage is: > http://www.nasm.edu/ > Telephone of the Smitsonian shooping Mart: 1-800-322-0344 and tell them > to connect to the National Air and Space Museum bookstore. > > May the Force be with you > > Su Wei-Jen > E-mail: wsu02@barney.poly.edu > > > "In this world, there is only two types of people that is 100% happy: > The one that know everything and the one that know nothing..." > > Master Su Yu-Chang > ------------------------------ From: Charles_E._Smith.wbst200@xerox.com Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 02:44:55 PDT Subject: Re: Re[2]: contract for classified SENIOR CITIZEN aircraft? One of our think tank people here and I had a very interesting (and disturbing)talk along these lines. He was explaining how the frequency of conflicts between nations increases dramatically when the world is unipolar or power is ill defined. The world has shown itself to be the most stable when it is bipolar (in terms of military might.) The frequency of conflict drops way down. Unfortunately, the severity of conflict increases. The latest thought, however, is that the current rise in conflicts and the availability of technology may very well lead to enormous escalation from one or more of the many "small" conflicts. ( As was born out with Iraq`s invasion of Kuwait!) The current line of though among many of the followers of Kennan, et. al. is that, to stabilize Europe and avoid conflict, the US SHOULD SEEK TO ESTABLISH A REUNIFIED GERMANY AS A SUPERPOWER!!! As big a liberal as I am, that scares the living poop out of me. They have a good record with establishing themselves as - - and I quote Reagan- "an evil empire bent on world domination". Now, when the notorious Mr. X speaks, (<- semi-obscure reference to my poly-sci friends :-)) people listen. Therefore, we can conclude the US should spend every dollar available to develope systems to protect us from our own leadership`s stupidity! Geez, I`m starting to sound like I ought to move to Montana........ ( and not to be a dental floss tycoon!!!) Chuck ------------------------------ From: albert.dobyns@mwbbs.com (ALBERT DOBYNS) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 22:38:00 -0500 Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual WS> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:18:50 -0400 (EDT) > From: Wei-Jen Su > Subject: Re: SR-71 Pilot's Manual WS> On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 larry@ichips.intel.com wrote: WS> > It's fairly obvious to me why most of them are missing. Most of them are WS> Why by you? Did you edit and censure the SR-71 Pilot's Manual book? I believe what Larry means is that whatever portions of the pilot's manual are missing is because those pages contain information that is still classified. I doubt if Larry editted or censured the manual and I do not believe Larry meant to imply that he did. The table of contents for each chapter is complete. Therefore when you find some pages missing, just look in the table of contents to see what sections are missing. I talked with a former SR-71 and U-2 pilot a few years ago. We discussed the manual. He told me that he has one at home, but it does not contain the still-classified pages. I think he said that these pages are kept in a vault, and the only way anyone gets to read them is to have been given the special access required status. I am willing to guess that a guard checks your id with his list of approved personnel. I also believe no one is allowed to take the pages out of the room where the vault is. Also I assume the guard makes sure that the pages are returned to the vault before the person can leave the room. You also asked about the black marks at the top and bottom of each page. I think it is a general rule of thumb that any military document has its security classification stamped on the top and bottom of each page. When a document is downgraded to unclassified, someone marks through the classification with a "magic marker" black pen. Some of the pages seem to have what's under the black marks show through. The short, thick black marks has/had the word SECRET on the page. The long, thin black marks appear to have been "special access required - Senior Crown Program". At a previous job I had many years ago, I was assigned to write a manual that described subroutines available for users who were writing programs. Each page was labeled at the top and bottom with its classification level (which I think was either "classified" or maybe "unclassified"). I was also given the task of distributing updated pages as they were produced. I was required to collect all pages that were old and give each person the new pages. Each person had to sign a sheet saying he/she had received new pages and returned old pages. I suppose one could say that the extra time spent doing what I did is a small expample of why secret projects cost more money. However it IS necessary to be able to know if printed material is classified and what other restrictions may apply. That's my opinion and may not reflect the opinion of others. I happen to have an old USSR map that covers part of Latvia and nearby countries. It had the work SECRET printed on it when it was produced originally. There is a thin black line drawn through it and other words were stamped on the map. These words are marked out also. I took the map to a store that sells Russian curios. One of the people at the shop said that the original classification was "secret". She was curious why I had such a map. I told her that it had a town on it, Skrunda, that had one of those enormous over-the-horizon radar stations. The Russian military dismantled most of it as part of a treaty that is in effect. All of the text is in Russian which is one of many languages I don't know. The best I can do it look up their letters in an alphabet table and hope I can make some sense out of it. I hope my long note explains a few things. Al * SLMR 2.1a * "You spent HOW MUCH on an aviation book??" :) ------------------------------ From: "Arif, Rahan" Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 14:44:04 cst Subject: The Aviary (fwd)(1/2) "Anyone heard of this.... ------------- ===>"FORWARDED"<=== ------------- From: density4@cts.com (Blue Resonant Human) Subject: What is The Aviary? (1/2) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 05:24:15 GMT Organization: CTS Network Services BIRDS OF A FEATHER: NO MORE UFO/ET-DISCLOSURE POLICY SPLITS COVERT NETWORK by Richard J. Boylan Ph.D. Since sometime in the 1970's, a small group of individuals with extremely high security clearances, who were working on various aspects of UFO research and policy, began to interact unofficially on a regular basis to pool information. Their objectives were to coordinate data, see the big picture, analyze the meaning of UFOs and extraterrestrial contact with Earth, use this knowledge to gain access to additional information on the hyper secret Majestic-12 (MJ-12, the government's ultimate UFO-information control and policy group) and gain special influence through their collective power. This elite group of roughly a dozen individuals working on national security assignments gave themselves code names, using mostly bird names. Collectively, they came to be called the "aviary." The relationship of Aviary members to MJ-12 group is murky. More than one UFO researcher estimates that some overlap in membership has occurred, in other words that MJ-12 has quietly infiltrated the Aviary to keep it under control. Dr. Steven Greer, Director of CSETI, has reported that the MJ-12 Group is now designated PI- 40. This hyper classified group deals with the most sensitive compartmented information regarding extraterrestrials and is so covert a special-access program that, reportedly, the President and Congress exercise no control over it and know of it only through rumor. Dick D'Amato, National and International Security Specialist for Senator Robert Byrd and a member of the N.S.C., stated in 1991 that an incredibly powerful "black arm" of the government has been keeping UFO information secret and has also been illegally spending enormous sums of money in this operation. D'Amato said that the NSC is trying to identify this "blackarm." Ironically, the answer may be right under their noses. It is quite possible, that PI-40 exists within a highly, compartmented, special-access program, yet with informal informational links to the National Security Council's "5240" (Black Projects) Committee. While there may be some overlap between the Aviary and the PI-40 group, they remain two separate entities. PI-40 is clearly at the top; it is the policy and decision group which has orchestrated the UFO cover-up since 1947, simultaneously releasing little fragments of UFO/ET information to gradually condition the American public to the slowly-dawning realization of UFO reality. Leaked reports from sources close to some Aviary members, suggest that there is a split within the group (which may well mirror a split within PI-40). On one side are Aviary members who feel that information about UFO and ET contacts should be broadly disclosed. They feel that the public is ready for this information and generally can handle it. Others within the Aviary resist such disclosure. They do not want to lose the power their "information monopoly" gives them. They do not welcome close public scrutiny of their role in the UFO cover-up, either. Additionally, some have reportedly engaged in illegal and sometimes injurious projects and operations. The split over disclosure is creating a climate in which leaks are increasing, as some try to force disclosure and establish a track record for themselves of (belated) candor with the American public. Most Aviary members appear to be well- intentioned scientists or former military or intelligence officers with careers spanning the Cold War, who no doubt sincerely believe that secrecy about UFOs was once vital. Following is a list of reported Aviary members: o BLUE JAY: Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green, MD, Ph.D; Chief, Biomedical Sciences Department, General Motors, former head of the CIA's UFO files at the "Weird Desk." o SEA GULL: Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D., research scientist in optical physics and laser weapons applications at the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Lab, Maryland; MUFON physics/photo- interpretive consultant and prolific author of andconsultant expert on selected "leaked" or disinformational UFO cases/ topics. o PELICAN: Ron Pandolfi, CIA Deputy Director for the Division of Science and Technology and current custodian of UFO files at the "Weird Desk"; may be involved in the White House initiative to promptly release UFO informationto the public. o OWL: Hal Puthoff, physicist with the Institute for Advanced Research in Austin, Texas, who specializes in Zero-Point Energy, a quantum/resonance physics phenomenon with reported potential for above-unity ("free") energy. o PENGUIN: John Alexander, Ph.D. in Death Sciences; Lt. Col. U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, which is undoubtedly the military cover for the National Security Agency, Col. Alexander is director of the Non-Lethal Weapons Department, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and has been reportedly involved in counter-intelligence remote viewing, psychic warfare, psychotronic and mind-control projects with military/security applications. o HAWK: Ernie Kellerstrauss, security cleared for UFO information; worked at Wright-Patterson AFB in the 1970s and reportedly lived with an extraterrestrial for a while. o CHICKADEE: Cmdr. C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D., USN (Ret.), former officer with the Office of Naval intelligence and other agencies; 30 years service in U.S. intelligence overseas; involved in government research and development projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other organizations; former aide to Sen. Clairborne Pell, who has had a long-standing interest in UFOs and the paranormal and has tried to arrange Congressional hearings on UFOs. o CONDOR; Capt. Bob Collins, USAF (Ret.); Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, engaged in UFO-related intelligence operations, reportedly appeared clandestinely on the 1988 Kodak-produced network television disinformation program "UFO Cover-Up Live" o FALCON; Sgt. Richard "Dick" Doty, USAF (Ret.); Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations; reported to have engaged in UFO disinformation projects, including reportedly hoaxing TV producer Linda Howe concerning availability of a tape showing a UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. and allegedly waging psychological warfare on Albuquerque defense electronic contractor Paul Bennewitz. o CHICKEN LITTLE: Dan Smith, civilian UFO research/volunteer liaison among sources within the Central Intelligence Agency, the Congressional Intelligence Committees and civilian UFO researchers. Smith continually exchanges information and networks with key UFO researchers, serves as their interlocutor and shares their findings and his own with his sources at the CIA and on Capitol Hill. Undoubtedly, other "assets" and low- profile intermediaries of the Aviary operate for the UFO- interest community as its ears and surrogate mouthpieces among the general public. The above was edited from the November/December issue of "Perceptions" available in Portland at various locations: Barnes & Nobel, Tower Books, 6th and Washington News and Rich's Cigar Stores. OR by sending $4.95 to Perceptions Magazine 10734 Jefferson Boulvard Suite 502-IS 12 Culver City, CA, 90230 E-Mail: perceptions@primenet.com Internet:http//www.primenet.com/perceptions. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #646 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". 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