orbits."The connections go even deeper, and twist and wrap around seemingly disconnected threads.In 1983, few Americans knew, or would have believed that the US government was training psychics to spy on the enemy.By December of 1983 some of America's psychic spies were receiving special mental training at the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences. For his part of the training program, Mr. Robert Monroe was granted SECRET security clearance and 24,400.In return for the 24,400, the government may have received the first known warning of the terrorist attack of September 11th, 2001.A few years later another U.S. government psychic, DIA SOURCE 21 warned of simultaneous attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.A 1986 SECRET Defense Intelligence Agency document quotes SOURCE 21's raw and un-interpreted vision of terror:"Newspaper headlines have something to do with the collapse of a building -- a lot of people hurt or injured. I also sense a feeling of panic, people scrambling and perhaps something to do with an aircraft. In summary, standing on top of a building, which is crowded inside with people, tourists, there is a perception of a large object falling -- heading -- toward the building... I sense the object may cause structural damage as it crashes through the building. All of this takes place sometime in the future."In August of 2001, psychic dream detective Chris Robinson was visiting with Professor Gary E. R. Schwartz at the University of Arizona.Schwartz had arranged a series of tests to see if Chris Robinson was able to describe locations where he would be taken at a future date.Robinson's dreams were interrupted by disturbing images: airplanes crashing into buildings.According to Robinson, who had previously worked with law enforcement in the UK, the authorities were notified when the dreams kept recurring.A month later Robinson's nightmares were no longer confined to his dreams.Jon Ronson, in his darkly humorous book The Men Who Stare at Goats, soon to be a fictionalized feature film starring George Clooney, claims that Israeli psychic-mentalist Uri Geller identified "Ron" as the man behind his reinstatement as a government "psychic spook."Ronson wrote, "Was Ron FBI? CIA? Military intelligence? Homeland Security? Could Ron be MI5? MI6?"I knew that Ron worked for CIA, and why psychic mentalist Uri Geller would claim to have been 'reactivated' for the war on terror.It seemed wherever the strange, the unusual, the rich and alien came together, "Ron" was nearby, waiting in the shadows. And not far behind, his friend Dan Smith.Dan Smith sees himself at the center of a 'virtual' conspiracy covered with 'extraterrestrial' contact, most notable for the involvement of his friends who are real U.S. government intelligence persons.I later learned that uncovering the real secrets of Dan Smith's friends from the intelligence world involved the Holy Grail of UFO enthusiasts: antigravity and time machines, sprinkled with heavy does of neurology and human psychology.Smith's September 30th, 2000 contribution to conspiracy paranoia was summed up in a not-too-well-disguised reference to the alleged MAJESTIC MJ-12 government UFO cabal:"Also it appears that Ron wants me to be a bus driver. He wants me to obtain a bus and paint it to look like an 'official' MTA bus, and go around the city picking up passengers at the bus stops, but instead of delivering them to their usual destinations, I will take them on an eschatological tour. When I told Ron that might be construed as being illegal, he did not seem perturbed."And then, for those not paying close attention, Dan added:"Would I lie to you? Do you think for a minute that these were not my 'official' instructions from a person who seems no longer inclined to deny membership in 'MTA-12'?"Controversy had followed his friend "Ron" throughout his CIA career.Ken Timmerman in American Spectator wrote that "Ronald Pandolfi was the CIA's highest ranking scientist when he visited the headquarters of Hughes Space and Communications in El Segundo, California in 1996.""A CIA analyst, Ronald Pandolfi, briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee on what he had found in 1995 about Hughes' review of the explosion of a Long March rocket in January 1995. The CIA then allegedly alerted Hughes about Pandolfi's briefing, reportedly according to an internal CIA cable dated September 23, 1998. The committee then asked Attorney General Janet Reno for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA improperly obstructed a Senate investigation."On January 18, 2006, Dr. Jack Sarfatti forwarded an email to my attention asking if I had sent an email listing the National Academy of Sciences "UFO" TIGER team."Jack, Ron P. told me today that you very likely know the names of all the members of the National Academy of Sciences "UFO" tiger team. If this is true, could you please tell me who they are. I have come up with something he wants briefed to them."The TIGER Committee was sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and included several of Ron Pandolfi's former associates from the CIA.My own efforts lead me to believe there was something more: a presence, an agenda, lurking in the darkness before me.Soon I found myself working the darkness with "deep throat" contacts unwilling to go on the record, and open source contacts chosen as "useful idiots" protected by "plausible deniability."Similar situations had driven many investigative journalists near the border of madness. Most days it came down to juggling a handful of spies, lies, and an occasional tale of polygraph tape.Entering the unknown chamber of covert intentions had been occasionally rewarding.I had uncovered sources willing to speak, in private, and strictly off the record. They pointed to the darkness ahead.I knew that the more I penetrated the blackness, the more I was at risk of falling over the edge -- pushed by a runaway imagination and deliberate misdirection.It was all part and parcel of the spy games being played in the UFO community.This review, and preview of things to come, will continue in part two.The book series KNOWING THE FUTURE begins with" The UFO Spy Games: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence", available from Amazon Books.
