| The investigative article "Harald Malmgren: Real-World History vs. Grandiose Fantasy," by researcher, Douglas Dean Johnson meticulously deconstructs the inflated personal narrative of Harald B. Malmgren, a former U.S. trade advisor, by contrasting his public |
By The UFO Chronicles
5-20-25 |
While Malmgren had legitimate roles under Presidents Nixon and Ford, primarily related to trade negotiations, Johnson’s research reveals that many of his grander claims — including key advisory roles to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson — are unsubstantiated.
A particularly sensational aspect of Malmgren’s legacy is his claimed association with the UFOs/UAP, aliens and or UFO crash debris. In his later years, Malmgren claimed high-level insider knowledge of classified UFO programs and extraterrestrial-related national security concerns, painting him as someone deeply embedded in secret government deliberations about non-human intelligence and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
However, Johnson finds no credible evidence to support these assertions. Malmgren’s official records, including declassified FBI files and government employment documents, show no involvement in national security or intelligence matters outside of his economic advisory capacity. Notably, Malmgren’s own job applications from the 1960s make no mention of such roles, describing instead modest academic and advisory functions. Furthermore, thorough searches of presidential archives and correspondence — including efforts by historians affiliated with the JFK Library and the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute — yielded no mention of Malmgren in the contexts he later claimed.
Johnson concludes that Malmgren, while not entirely a fabricator, skillfully blurred the lines between fact and fiction, leveraging real but limited public service into a legacy laced with dramatic and unverifiable embellishments. His late-in-life elevation to quasi-mystical insider status in UFO and conspiracy circles illustrates how unchecked personal narratives can metastasize into accepted lore — a cautionary tale in the age of viral misinformation and selective memory.
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