A declassified NSA draft titled Parapsychology: The COMSEC Threat and SIGINT Capability recently caught my attention when an excerpt was shared by researcher Michael Best. COMSEC stands for communications security, while SIGINT refers to signals intelligence. The six-page document, apparently composed in approximately 1981 and approved for release in 2011, may be viewed in full on the CIA website. The unnamed author of the draft wrote that dealing with such issues as the manipulation of personnel behavior by psychic means could not be avoided within the work force, including at the NSA. The author continued that psychic warfare was inevitable and that "practitioners" within the Agency were already "functioning." |
Whatever we are to make of such declassified documents, their very existence may offer us some insight into an era in which the intelligence and UFO communities alike pushed the envelope edges. Let's take a look at some topics previously explored on The UFO Trail and how they might relate to one another. We might consider how such cases as the Gulf Breeze Six may possibly have been more a result of a fringe-friendly NSA and intelligence culture than it was the bizarre, isolated incident it's often thought to have been. Reviewing such circumstances might help us more clearly understand the evolution of belief systems surrounding UFOs, as well as assist us in ultimately forming more relevant questions.
[...]
Continue Reading ►
See Also:
NSA UFO Docs
Foreign UFO Sightings Intercepted by NSA
What Does the NSA Know about The UFO-Cover-up Whistleblowership?
Suing The NSA for Release of UFO Documents; Threats To National Security Claimed (1981)
REPORT YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE
Wow. This document just fills me with confidence in our intel agencies. I wonder if they'll declassify they're plans to defend against an invasion of flying unicorns.
ReplyDelete