Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM Analyzed

"I am today transmitting to the National Security Council a proposal (TAB A) in which it is concluded that the problems connected with unidentified flying objects appear to have implications for psychological warfare... as well as for intelligence and operations. ... I suggest that we discuss at an early board meeting the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes."

July 1, 1952, CIA director General Walter Bedell Smith, soon also a United Fruit and Pilgrims Society executive, to the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB), a CIA oversight group overseen by the national security advisor. Elites as John Hay Whitney, Henry Kissinger and Nelson Rockefeller (all Pilgrims ) were part of the PSB/OCB, which is very relevant in light of Laurance Rockefeller and other elites financing huge amounts of UFO-related disinformation that is largely spread through Coast to Coast AM.

Note: Within two weeks of publishing this article, artbell.com was removed from the Wayback webarchive engine, which contained backups of Art's page since 1996. Should have made a backup of the pre-2002 guest lists and their descriptions, but luckily the vast majority of important guests and the dates they visited have already been incorporated in this article.

"Until very recently control of American consciousness was a simple matter for the guys in charge. The schools instilled docility. The radio and TV networks poured out conformity. ... You may not know that dissident organizations in academia are also controlled. The CIA creates the radical journals and student organizations and runs them with deep-cover agents. ... The IFIF plan [to set up psychedelic training centers around the country] was ingenious [but] they would have infiltrated every chapter..."

Words of President Kennedy's lover, Mary Pinchot Meyer , according to LSD guru and Harvard professor Timothy Leary. Both Kennedy and Meyer died under questionable circumstances. Mary was married to top CIA figure Cord Meyer. A close friend was married to CIA counter-intelligence chief James Angleton. She also knew CIA chief Allen Dulles, CIA DDO Richard Bissell and the Washington Post heads. (1983, Timothy Leary, 'Flashbacks: An Autobiography', pp. 130, 154, 174).

The following oversights became vastly more complex than anticipated due to the overwhelming amount of establishment connections found among Coast to Coast AM guests:

Background and sources on individual Coast to Coast AM guests

Always a work in progress. And many dozens of other questionable names can be added.

Abstract

There is a lot of evidence that the CIA, NSA and Pentagon, whose leaders are all part of a civilian establishment, have created a complete "alternative" community consisting of news websites, forums, skeptical groups, radical activists and authors, as well as a vast stream of trolls in the form of forum, website and Youtube video posters that target anyone in favor of a sensitive conspiracy with a blitzkrieg of skepticism or extreme irrationality. The nexus in the "believers" category is Coast to Coast AM, followed by the closely-allied Alex Jones. This article will provide evidence for these claims.

Intro: personal experiences with Alex Jones and C2C AM censorship

I was a listener to Coast to Coast AM at one point. Loved it. Couldn't get enough of it. Sometimes listened to three shows in a row. I actually put aside all my prejudices and listened to just about every guest in the 2004-2005 period, making notes and organizing the information in the process. It didn't take very long to find out that the "information density" of the show is rather low. Listen to 500 hours of Coast to Coast interviews and you don't really learn a whole lot, mainly because it is impossible to tell truth from fiction. You only learn about dominant ideas in the "alternative" media and understand who the various authorities/gurus promoting these theories are.

Frequent C2C AM visitor Alex Jones, a protector of conservative, isolationist ''old right'' values and a John Bircher in heart and soul, not unlike his pal George Noory. Update: Jones now has his very own 30,000 word article on ISGP. Turns out, he has a "CIA and army special forces" family and is more than a little supportive of ultraright death squad liaisons.

While I was primarily drawn to shows about out of body experiences, reincarnation and the paranormal, already in the very beginning I recognized that the geopolitical and/or conspiracy side of the show was very weak. In 2005 I was creating the first articles on the Pilgrims Society, the 1001 Club, Le Cercle and other groups and noticed that none of the information I came across was discussed on Coast to Coast AM. All I could find was speculation about the Illuminati, the New World Order, and the occasional rant about Bilderberg. No riddles ever get solved and most certainly the show's guests never bring up any unique information.

Now, isn't that peculiar? Here you have a show that reached up to 15 million people a night in the late 1990s and still about 3 million today, but somehow it is unable to even occasionally invite journalists, researchers and whistleblowers with information that is actually unique and can be verified. For an influential media outlet focused on alternative research and whistleblowing, it is sure curious that Coast to Coast has never produced any unique documents or stood at the basis of any political scandal.

It wasn't until May 6, 2006 that I began to really suspect foul play. Anne Finkbeiner appeared on the air, in order to promote her new book: The JASONs: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite. A few days before she was on, I sent Ian Punnett, one of the show's stand-in hosts, a list with questions he could ask. In August 2005 I had completed the first in-depth article on the JASON Group, for the first time revealing all its historical members and singling out some of the more important names. It wasn't even that special an article, but did result in an apparent act of intimidation or possibly an attempt to make it legal to monitor my phone, email and regular mail. I was sent a bogus JASON Group document on how to protect U.S. nuclear power plants against terrorist attacks. A week later my entire email box was emptied, including the relevant email, something which had never happened before and has never happened since. I also had some phone issues at the time and multiple orders from England permanently disappearing, other peculiarities that have never happened before or since.

In any case, I explained the whole ordeal to Punnett, who wrote back to thank me for the information. Now, how many of those questions do you think Punnett asked? Well... none. In fact, he didn't ask one skeptical question during the entire broadcast, not even about the show's favorite topic: UFOs. Punnett just sat there and let Finkbeiner, who had been given access to members of the JASON Group and simply told their official story, talk and talk and talk until her two hours were over. It was quite a bizarre show, with me still wondering why someone as Finkbeiner was invited, certainly without any skeptical questions being asked. For one night everything the show is about was given up in favor of a little official government propaganda, or so it appears.

Later that year, in November 2006, the first ISGP article in quite some time was refused publication by Alex Jones' Infowars. This was quite a shock, because it was the best-documented and most unique article I had written until that point. Looking back, the censorship is easy to understand. Instead of touching on the liberal Eastern Establishment, I wrote about Le Cercle, part of the ultraconservative Pentagon (CIA swings both ways) network that is protected by Alex Jones. The American Security Council, the World Anti-Communist League, the Council for National Policy, the John Birch Society--they are all part of this same network.



"[This] could be used for "espionage" and breaking quantum cryptography security words. I am an informal "senior advisor" to Dr. Ronald Pandolfi, of the Science & Technology Directorate of the CIA and the MASINT [Measurement and Signature Intelligence] program. Indeed, I was Pandolfi's guest at a JASON meeting at General Atomics in June 2008 in La Jolla." [57]

Col. Alexander is a regular key guest on Coast to Coast AM, with Sarfatti and numerous associates of Pandolfi also visiting. Maybe this is a start in explaining why the JASONs used Coast to Coast AM as a platform to give out their official history. Col. John Alexander ("Penguin"), left, with Ron Pandolfi ("Pelican"), both major manipulators of the UFO and New Age community. In 2008 Pandolfi, formerly on the CIA's National Intelligence Council, convened a JASON Group meeting for the Director of National Intelligence. As Jack Sarfatti , another such manipulator, wrote:Col. Alexander is a regular key guest on Coast to Coast AM, with Sarfatti and numerous associates of Pandolfi also visiting. Maybe this is a start in explaining why the JASONs used Coast to Coast AM as a platform to give out their official history.

For all these years I have primarily worked on bringing new information to the world, ignoring the censorship of key conspiracy programs as Coast to Coast AM and the Alex Jones Show. But at this point I think the first and most important thing people new to conspiracy and spiritual issues need to understand is the extent to which the alternative narrative is controlled by the national security state. In order to make this effort successful, especially in the age of the internet, it has been sponsoring hundreds of authors, backed by a network of publishers, websites, forum posters, Youtube channels, podcast and radio shows. Coast to Coast AM is a pretty crucial ingredient for any author on spirituality or the UFO and alien subject to produce a New York Times best-seller. What other major radio or television shows are going to pick up such an author? Probably none. For conspiracy Alex Jones is crucial. Again, what other major show is going to pick up a conspiracy author? Oprah? The Late Night Show? CNN? Unlikely. Shows as Coast to Coast AM, the Alex Jones Show, and the pro-Nazi Rense website truly are the gatekeepers of the conspiracy community. They need to approve of your work in order for it to spread to a large audience.

But, as this article will demonstrate, these alternative shows are part of what amounts to a cult. All kinds of peculiar people with even more peculiar ideas are allowed on the air. They support each other, fight amongst each other, but outsiders are unable to join the conversation. My 2007 Dutroux article, which took 1.5 years to finish, is a good example of this. Despite having been published earlier and despite unique documentation that seriously implicated a former Bilderberg chairman, other leading "internationalists", and CIA-backed fascist aristocrats in child abuse networks, it was ignored in EVERY conspiracy corner on the internet. Worried about my own safety, especially in terms of getting sued before the information could spread, I gave Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson a $500 "bribe" to post my article as a news item on the front page of Prisonplanet/Infowars for two days. All of a sudden Rense and other conspiracy sites did pick up the article, although they unfortunately did have a tendency to include the word "Illuminati" in their own headings. After that article, the gates were closed forever. I did offer to pay $200 for the publication of my very unique 2008 Pilgrims Society article, which theoretically would be of incredible interest to anything from Alex Jones and Jeff Rense to the John Birch Society, but nobody would touch it. Only Alex Jones would, as a commercial for a day, which obviously didn't produce any hits.

Blog sites superficially talking about the Illuminati and how no plane hit the Pentagon get links all the time, but fully-documented ISGP material is never touched: something is very wrong here. In this article we go into detail what exactly is wrong with Coast to Coast AM and to some extent also with the Alex Jones Show.

Bush, Blackwater and CIA connections

Since 1998 Coast to Coast AM has been controlled by Clear Channel Communications [1], which can pull the plug on the program any time it wants to and send it back into obscurity. Clear Channel's founders and decades-long owners, Lowry Mays and Red McCombs [2], have deep ties to Texas politics in all its aspects.

C2C AM guest John Perkins: Blames an unknown company, the NSA, and anonymous ''jackals'' of intrigue that usually is the domain of the CIA and very well known banks and corporations. Unsurprisingly, Perkins has thrown a few no-plane theories in there for 9/11 and had his new age ''Pachamama Alliance'' financed to a considerable degree by the Rockefeller-allied Tides and Rudolf Steiner foundations. He's actually far from the only C2C AM guest taking money from Tides and most likely a host of other low-profile foundations. Certainly there are ties to the New World, Rockefeller and Soros foundations.

Lowry is a major financier of the elite George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation, presided over by Henry Kissinger protege Brent Scowcroft. When in late 2007 the even more elite Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs was established at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, Lowry had only just stepped down as regent chairman of the university. Directors of the Scowcroft Institute have included Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, former CIA directors John Deutch and Robert Gates (president of A&M university), and former NSA chief and deputy CIA director Admiral Bobby Ray Inman. Lowry has made significant political contributions to George W. Bush run for the presidency. [3]

As for Red McCombs, in March 2011 he, together with apparent friend Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former deputy director of the CIA and head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and the NSA, as well as Bush's former attorney general John Ashcroft, took over mercenary firm Blackwater USA. Earlier Blackwater had been exposed as a CIA asset firm that worked alongside Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in assassinating Middle Eastern terrorists. Both JSOC and Blackwater were considered personal tools of the Bush White House. Founder and chairman Erik Prince himself admitted he had been recruited as a "CIA asset", something which was already rather obvious in 2005 when Bush's CIA counterterrorism chief, Cofer Black, joined the firm as vice chairman, together with his CIA operations chief, drug dealer and mafia hitman Enrique Prado. CIA associate deputy director of intelligence Robert Richer, accused of having been involved in the forging of a bogus link between the 9/11 hijackers and Saddam Hussein, also joined the firm. Retired CIA executive director Buzzy Krongard, who helped Blackwater acquire its first major government contracts in Afghanistan in 2002, joined the firm's advisory board in 2007, but had to step down almost immediately because his brother at the State Department was accused of shielding Blackwater from a Justice Department investigation into alleged arms trafficking by its employees. Another curious player is Knight of Malta Joseph E. Schmitz. As Bush's Pentagon inspector general from 2002 to 2005, he refused to investigate Blackwater, but later on joined the Prince Group, of which Blackwater was a subsidiary, as general counsel and chief operating officer (COO). All of these aspects are discussed in ISGP's The Supranational Suspects Behind 9/11, which includes fully written-out endnotes. [4]

All this begs the question, of course, what changed when McCombs followed up Erik Prince as chairman, with the CIA's Bobby Ray Inman and Bush's former attorney general at his side. Even though Blackwater changed its name to Academi, it's still in the same business, with the same headquarters, and seemingly with the same group of players running it. Texas politics and the CIA are just as strongly represented as ever. It simply appears as if McCombs was just brought in as the next CIA asset. Considering he has also been the founder of Clear Channel with deep involvement until at least 2007, this would probably be seen as a problem by many Coast to Coast AM listeners. Certainly it instantly explains why Art Bell so strenuously opposed anyone believing that there might be more to 9/11 than meets the eye. Or why, in general, one can listen to the radio program for years on end and learn very little of substance.

Granted, the 9/11 "Truth" community is even worse than Art Bell. And, of course, looking at George Noory, hired by Clear Channel/Premiere Radio in 1998 as Art Bell's stand-in, the other extreme is also a possibility--as long as hosts stick to extremes. As an example, here is a conversation from March 13, 2013, readily available on Youtube, between George Noory and the (Texas-based) Alex Jones on the Alex Jones Show:

NOORY: What does logic tell you, when you hear that they are buying 2,000+ tanks and they are gonna use them here in the United States?*** ... They are afraid of Americans. I think they are afraid of us. ... Even when everyone was happy, I'm still convinced that some place, somewhere this group of one world government fanatics would create an issue, just to go ahead and attack and do something. You know my views on 9/11. ...



JONES: Coast to Coast may have had 10 percent political news [under Art Bell]. You made it about 50 percent, in my estimation. And hardcore patriot news. And that's a big thing. I remember you were the only one opposing the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act on big national radio. Really, I can say your show helped kill the forced emasculation of the American people. I have to say, George, you are a real guy. I've had a chance to have dinner with you, we've hung out quite a few times, you and Tom Danheiser, the whole crew, you are just a real guy and I admire what you have done. I'm a fan of you.



*** ISGP: Noory is talking nonsense here. It's a spin on an old report that 2,717 of the army's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles were going to be upgraded. The army was later turned into Homeland Security, the upgrade into full vehicles, and the MRAPs into Strykers.

In recent years George Noory has emerged as a raging John Bircher closely allied with Alex Jones. Jones has appeared an average of 7 times a year on Coast to Coast AM since his first appearance in March 2004. Beginning in 2010, Noory also began to occasionally appear on the Alex Jones Show. When Jones is referring to Noory's "hardcore patriot news" he is talking about the numerous John Birch Society-affiliated guests that have been invited to Coast to Coast AM over the years, not to mention a few pro-Israel neocon extremists.

Jones and Noory have been scratching each other's backs for years at this point, possibly because Premiere Networks/Clear Channel has expressed an interest in taking over the Alex Jones show, but also because 9/11 caused Jones' following to increase to such an extent that he couldn't be ignored anymore. While Noory has opened up Coast to Coast to "patriot" politics with Alex Jones as its leading spokesman, Jones has occasionally been looking for ways to sell typical Coast to Coast AM UFO disinformation to his own Christian conservative following by wrapping the information in a biblical message. Here is a great example of October 16, 2010, when George Noory called in during Alex Jones'"Moneybomb Marathon":

NOORY: I just wanted to congratulate you on your patriotic service. ... Over the years, Alex, you have done a great job for us on Coast to Coast, illuminating the world on the Illuminati. ...



JONES: So much is happening. We even had Lou Dobbs on today. He sent me an email and said: "I appreciate what you are doing." ... [praising Glenn Beck, who also fell under the Clear Channel umbrella]...



NOORY: We need you. Just watch your back. And we'll watch it for you. ...



JONES: Well, George Noory, I wanna get you on my official radio show from 11 to 2 in the next few weeks about all this UFO stuff. ... There's no doubt that there's stuff going on. There's no doubt that Ezekiel and other books of the bible, like Genesis, talk about literal giant craft with fire coming out and guys with blue helmets on and giving people stuff, and genetic engineering, and Noah, and all the rest of it, but to have Project Blue Beam, and I want you to finish up with this... (mp3)

Amazing, isn't it? A few seconds of semi-coherent conversation and half a dozen points of disinformation come up: the Illuminati, biblical spacecraft, aliens with "blue helmets" on, genetic engineering, and "Project Blue Beam." Isn't this an interesting combination? The traditional new age spirituality of Coast to Coast AM combined with hard-right, Christian conservative, pro-Republican foreign policy discussions? Who would have thought about that? And who would have thought that Alex Jones subconsciously believes the United Nations conspiracy to take over the world goes back to an alien agenda in biblical times? One learns something new every day.

For those still in doubt whether or not Alex Jones is an independent player, remember that he doesn't allow any discussion on conservative NGOs and think tanks. Here are Jones' words from his very own Alex Jones Show of August 31, 2010:

"There's a left-wing CFR-funded conspiracy theory that says some group called the CNP [Council for National Policy] runs everything [bored expression]. It's a total diversion, but we'll talk about it from the other side." (mp3)

On January 7, 2011, just after being confronted with a guest who is just as right-wing as the CNP, but frustrated by its lack of open John Bircher extremism, Jones stated:

"She brought up the, uh, [thinking hard] CNP, which I haven't done a lot of research on. People have asked me about it, so I have done some. They, reportedly, the Hunt brothers set it up and things. And she was saying that that was not a real organization, or that that isn't a conservative group trying to take America back, or fight the New World Order, as they claim. [ISGP: this is spin. Everybody at the CNP is against what Jones terms the "left wing" "New World Order", which is why Jones gets backing from that corner.] ... Is the whole CNP bad? There have also been a lot of people who have been in the CNP, like a Paul Craig Roberts - he's grown, he's learned things. I've talked to him about it and he says it's just basically ineffectual." (mp3)

John B. Wells, regular stand-in C2C AM host from January 2012 to January 2014, replacing Ian Punnett. He maintained his own parallel radio show Caravan to Midnight, to which he invited guests that were too controversial even for C2C AM. A regular one was no-planer Dave McGowan, who was allowed to argue for four hours on several occasions that the 2013 Boston Bombing was a "hoax", in the sense that supposedly no bombs went off at street level and that victims had staged their injuries. Completely dispicable. Here Wells can be seen on the Alex Jones Show, today pretty much a sister show of C2C AM.

Subsequently on the air, Jones slowly starts to "agree" that neocons may be controlling the CNP, which is also very convenient political spin, as Jones is a traditional non-neocon right-winger. CNP members are all Old Right religious extremists along the lines of the (once) very powerful American Security Council. Colonel Oliver North of Iran Contra was famously a member of the CNP, as well as the American Security Council. The mother of Blackwater founder Erik Prince has also been deeply involved in the CNP. Some of the CNP members made it as guests to both the Alex Jones Show and Coast to Coast AM. Stanley Monteith is among them. Many years ago, when I just started out, I naively asked Monteith why he had attended meetings of the CNP. His answer? "To counter the propaganda." I know better than that, of course, these days, but it is telling that Monteith was so desperate to distance himself from the CNP.

Other guests affiliated with the CNP and John Birch Society that have been allowed on Coast to Coast AM include G. Edward Griffin, Charles R. Smith, Jerome Corsi, Jeffrey NyQuist, Joel Skousen, Father Nicholas Gruner and William Jasper. Jones, of course, has had even more of these guests on.

Then there is key JFK researcher and Coast to Coast AM guest Mark Lane, who got himself deeply involved with the even more right-wing (read: Nazi) Liberty Lobby that General Douglas MacArthur's clique was so fond of back in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1978 Lane was evacuated from the Jonestown cult premises, along with the CIA's Richard Dwyer, at the last moment before the mass killing/suicide began. No, Lane might be popular as a JFK researcher, but he has never been an independent player.

Meet Alex Jones' "CIA" and "army special forces" family

Much in line with his behavior and the ties of Coast to Coast AM to the superclass, Bush, CIA and Blackwater clique, in recent years frequent Coast to Coast AM guest Alex Jones has repeatedly admitted to stem from a family with many "CIA" and "army special forces" veterans. There are some indications that these family members, apart from the John Birch Society, are/were allied with the Council for National Policy and the American Security Council, a network of ultraright groups that Jones has been protecting on his radio show. For more information, see ISGP's article Alex Jones of Infowars Admits to CIA and "Army Special Forces" Family; Supports Death Squads, Dictators, Drugs, Disinformation ... and the CNP.

Opusian Catholics and fake demonologists

A special kind of John Bircher was Father Malachi Martin, a very popular guest on Coast to Coast from 1996 until his death in 1999 who claimed to be a leading Vatican exorcist. Not much seems to have been true of this claim and one only has to read Martin's words speaking out against the "New World Order" and big foundations as Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford and Mellon to realize where he was coming from. As a supporter of Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta, he opposed abortion, the use of contraceptives, the acceptance of homosexuality, and even appears to blame "Satanic pedophilia" entering the Church on liberal forces. Funny, if I had to point fingers, I'd blame it on Opus Dei. Martin used to be a Jesuit intelligence asset, but resigned after this group became too "liberal" in the early 1960s. After he left the Jesuits in 1965 and moved to New York City, Pope Paul VI provided him with the authority to represent the Church in the media. On air and in his books he claimed to still be in touch with the Opusian Pope John Paul II (1978-2005), which would make him more or less an official Vatican representative. Seeing how at one point he was a religious editor of the conservative National Review of former CIA officer and Skull & Bones member William Buckley, it is not hard to see how he eventually was considered suitable for appearances on Coast to Coast.

Demonic possession, classical view. Scene from Supernatural, which, I have to admit, is one of my favorite shows.

It seems to largely have been Malachi Martin who spread the word that the Jesuits have become the liberal wing of the Vatican. However, this is only relative to Martin's support for Opus Dei [5] and may even only refer to a faction within the Jesuits. Powerful Catholic families, most notably the secretive Brenninkmeyers (1001 Club), have members and donations spread out over the Jesuits, Opus Dei, the Knights of Malta and even an outfit called the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Today we even have a Brenninkmeyer managing the Duth Roman Catholic Church's Sexual Abuse Hotline. Such a thoughtful family. You can just feel the love from here. [6]

After Martin's death in 1999 a number of Catholic associates took over. In 2003 the show managed to pick up Father Nicholas Gruner. While more concerned with the Fatima "secrets"--which Martin also spoke about--than exorcism, Gruner continued the fight against the "New World Order" and its new age "one-world religion." Gruner has appeared in at least one John Birch Society film.

Other old associates primarily of Martin talked about the maybe more enigmatic angle of demonic possession and exorcism, a topic largely restricted to Catholics it appears, at least on Coast to Coast. Father Rama Coomaraswamy, who was invited in 2006, claimed that Martin, shortly before his death, had told him that "he'd been knocked to the ground by a "demon" and that was what brought about his [fatal] injury." Of course, apart from his appearance on Coast to Coast AM, everyone knows you can't trust a person whose name ends in "swamy"--that's just a fact of life.

Then we have Father Andrew Wingate, who first came to the show on January 8, 2003. During this first program he explained to have "performed frequent exorcisms, even working with Father Malachi Martin in one case where ... they worked on 15 possessed people simultaneously." On the same program he made a number of doomsday predictions that would even make Ed Dames blush:

"Father Wingate discussed some of his prophetic visions which he explained come to him when he is "talking to heaven," and he hears a voice in his head. ... He foresees something horrible happening in the next 90 days though he couldn't specify where it would happen. He did liken the event to a nuclear attack and said there would be horrendous destruction.



"Things don't get better further down the road. Within two years the U.S. will be invaded by the United Nations after America sinks one of its own battleships, Wingate said. Then there'll be a 9.0 earthquake in Kansas City that will last for almost an hour ("The city will be virtually destroyed because of fire," Wingate said). Finally we'll have six days of post-Armageddon darkness followed by 40 years of dusk-like skies. ...



""I have 17 brothers and sisters who are thoroughly convinced I am a lunatic," he added."

The United Nations invading the United States? It appears we have found another John Bircher. Despite the fact that not one prediction of Wingate came out, he was frequently invited back to show to make more doomsday predictions. He still appears on the show once in a while.

Other old Catholic associates, like Ralph Sarchie and John Zaffis, also promoted themselves as fellow demonic exorcists. Especially the latter is rather prominent, because his uncle and aunt were America's most well known paranormal investigators: Ed and Lorraine Warren. This couple investigated and wrote books about famous "hauntings" as the "Amityville Horror" and "A Haunting in Connecticut." Anybody who has watched Discovery Channel's 'A Haunting' show, will tend to recognize their cases rather quickly. They tend to be among the most extreme, with holy water, crosses and Catholic priests as a first line of defense, and often group prayer as the final remedy. And, of course, each individual exorcism requires the express permission of the Vatican. The propaganda seems rather obvious: the Catholic Church is the spearhead against all demonic forces in the world.

But, as is usual for anyone associated with Coast to Coast, the Warren's are known con artists. If their talk about "werewolf demons" isn't enough to raise suspicions, there's widespread criticism on cases as the "Amityville Horror" and "A Haunting in Connecticut" as elaborate hoaxes for financial gain. Tellingly, one author involved in the Connecticut case, wrote:

"When I found that the Snedekers [of A Haunting in Connecticut] couldn't keep their individual stories straight, I went to Ed Warren and explained the problem. "They're crazy," he said. "All the people who come to us are crazy, that's why they come to us. Just use what you can and make the rest up. You write scary books, right? Well, make it up and make it scary. That's why we hired you." ...



"Their son, around whom their entire story centered, was nowhere to be found. I never met him. I was allowed to talk to him briefly on the phone, but as soon as he started telling me that the things he "saw" in the house went away after he'd been medicated, Carmen [Snedeker] abruptly ended the conversation. ...



"It seems nearly everyone in that neighborhood knew it was a former funeral home, it was no secret. I've learned that the "supernatural" problems in the house didn't start until the landlord, frustrated after months of being unable to get rent out of the Snedekers, made moves to have them evicted. Then all of a sudden the house was infested with demons." [ 7 ]

Of course, for some mysterious reason cases like this are always given tremendous attention: newspaper articles, book contracts, movie deals, documentaries made, radio shows as Coast to Coast AM, and, of course, long-term opposition by professional skeptics. This is not to say that the entire topic should be ignored. The problem is simply that the "witnesses" and "experts" given attention by the national media are not exactly part of the solution.

Has there been any significant degree of Vatican influence on Coast to Coast AM? Unlikely. Very few guests have ties to the Vatican and the demonology angle is just one of many scams pushed by the radio show. Again, having been in the Ayahuasca state for close to 200 hours and having done some experiments which resulted in horrendous dreams or me waking up at night in terror with voices still whispering in my ear, I'm not saying that demons cannot exist, but the manner in which the subject is approached and promoted is all wrong.

Colonel John Alexander and Opus Dei friends

Despite the fact that there is little to no Vatican influence on Coast to Coast AM, we shouldn't forget that the Bush family was deeply involved with the Knights of Malta through the death squad and child abuse-linked Americares. One person who also sat on the board of Americares, along with men as Zbigniew Brzezinski and Colin Powell, was General Richard Stilwell [8], in the early 1980s instrumental in putting Colonel John Alexander under the authority of General Albert Stubblebine at INSCOM. [9]

Starting in January 1997, Colonel Alexander became a key and influential force on Coast to Coast AM, largely because of his INSCOM background that revolved around psi and remote viewing research. Also guests financed and affiliated with apparent Opus Dei intimate [10] Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein, a relative of Otto von Habsburg [11], were invited to Coast to Coast AM, most notably alien abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, whose "Intruders" Foundation and related projects appear to have been financed by both Hans Adam and Robert Bigelow. [12] Unsurprisingly, Colonel Alexander and General Bert Stubblebine were friendly with Hans Adam (not to mention Bigelow), no later than the early 1990s, before any of them had ever appeared on Coast to Coast. [13]

In one particular Youtube video we can see Budd Hopkins have an entire conversation with Colonel Philip Corso, the very questionable individual who claimed to have seeded the Roswell UFO technology (and in 1997 appeared with Col. Alexander on Coast to Coast AM). It seems like an utterly realistic conversation, with Hopkins really trying to dig for detailed answers--which he obviously didn't get. Problem is: both were BS artists and they knew it. As Hopkins' wife, Carol Rainey, captured on home video, Hopkins just accepted blatantly contrived evidence coming from various "witnesses" in his famous Javier Perez de Cuellar case. He even defended all the bogus evidence to his wife like he really believed it to be genuine while ignoring all her rather obvious questions. [14] Hopkins, like other leading researchers associated with Coast to Coast, are basically always "in role" 24-7. It's utterly bizarre to witness.

Leading AFIO member Col. John B. Alexander, a superstar at the Coast to Coast AM "cult", with:

1) CIA veteran General Richard Stilwell, a later president of the AFIO, a board member of the child abuse-linked Knight of Malta outfit Americares, a member of the American Security Council and the equally fascist, child abuse-linked Cercle group, ran by Otto von Habsburg's Opus Dei clique; (Stilwell transferred Alexander to INSCOM under the authority of Gen. Stubblebine)

2) Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein, a relative of the Habsburgs, reported chief financier of Opus Dei , and certainly key financier of the most negative aspect of the alien abduction phenomenon;

3) Scientologist Hal Puthoff, Edgar Mitchell's colleague at Bechtel-controlled SRI International and beyond;

4) the wife of C.B. Scott Jones, a long-time employee of Laurance Rockefeller and Hans Adam in the financing of UFO, alien abduction and new age theories;

5) CIA veteran General John Singlaub, former chair of the American Security Council, the World Anti-Communist League and later, the OSS Society - all notorious for activities involving death squads, drugs,

6) AFIO member Colonel Michael Aquino, a cult-oriented former American Security Council advisor accused of running a sadistic child abuse network;

7) General Jack Sheehan, accused of involvement in a sexual perversion ring by Kay Griggs who is friends with David Rockefeller's clique;

8) 4-star general Carl Stiner, also accused by Kay Griggs and said to run illegal black operations involving terrorism and assassination;

9) Edward Teller, H-bomb inventor and American Security Council extremist;

10) William Perry, among the most connected elites in the world with the deepest possible ties to high technology black programs.

11) Colonel Philip Corso, a loyal member of General MacArthur's ultra-fascist staff with its links to the Black Dragon Society, the Moonie Cult , and Opus Dei's child snuff networks. Corso also worked under Nelson Rockefeller.

All ties of these men can be found in ISGP's terrorism, coups and pedophile entrapment;, aformer American Security Council advisor accused of running a sadistic child abuse network;, accused of involvement in a sexual perversion ring by Kay Griggs who is friends with David Rockefeller's clique;, also accused by Kay Griggs and said to run illegal black operations involving terrorism and assassination;, H-bomb inventor and American Security Council extremist;, among the most connected elites in the world with the deepest possible ties to high technology black programs.a loyal member of General MacArthur's ultra-fascist staff with its links to the Black Dragon Society, the, andchild snuff networks. Corso also worked under Nelson Rockefeller.All ties of these men can be found in ISGP's Superclass Index and index of institutes . ISGP's experiences with Kay Griggs' information is discussed here

This basically seems to conclude any Vatican-ties to Coast to Coast AM. They seem to be limited to the promotion of the Catholic Church as a lighthouse against the demonic forces in the world and the promotion of alien abduction stories.

Neocons backed by the Russian mafia

Slightly more prominent on Coast to Coast AM than Vatican-related exorcisms are neocon influences. Neocon horror stories about imminent terrorist attacks on the United States seem to keep the public on the edge of their seats. Take Frank Gaffney, who apparently was invited in mid-2007 or certainly was scheduled as a potential guest. Gaffney is the founder of the influential Center for Security Policy and as ISGP's Superclass Index and index of institutes show, Gaffney is part of the absolute elite of the elite. It is utterly bizarre that a person like this can appear on a radio show dedicated to UFOs and spiritual issues. Judging from links on his personal Coast to Coast AM page [15], it looks as if Gaffney was promoting one of his anti-Islam films in an effort to get Iran bombed.

It appears, however, that the hyper-popular Jerome Corsi is the primary asset of both the John Birchers and Neocons in undermining the Democratic Party and the liberal Rockefeller Republicans. Looking at the books Corsi has put out, it is absolutely breathtaking that a person like this is allowed on a show as Coast to Cast AM:

Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (2004)

Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians (2006)

Summary of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (2010)

Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President (2011)

How Obama Can Be Defeated in 2012 (2011)

Saul Alinsky: The Evil Genius Behind Obama (2012)

President Obama's Plan To Bankrupt the USA (2012)

What Went Wrong?: The Inside Story of the GOP Debacle of 2012 (2013)

Bad Samaritans: The ACLU's Relentless Campaign to Erase Faith from the Public Square (2013)

What is just as bizarre is that Corsi has been cranking out numerous other books in between, mainly about bogus subjects as abiotic oil and the Shroud of Turin. In 2013 he also released a book on the Kennedy assassination. Question: who can write three books a year on different subjects and actually do any decent research? What is certain is that the huge amount of books he writes plays an important role in him being on the air with Coast to Coast AM every couple of months. He's the perfect tool to hammer liberal politics, specifically tailored to the needs of the Coast to Coast audience, just what Clear Channel owners would want to have on the air.

Other neocons stop by every once in while to motivate the people at home for the War on Terror. Take Colonel David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst who appeared on April 22, 2013 to promote his New York Times best seller Terror Red, in which he warns for the danger of government-financed Islamic terrorism. Without having read the book, most likely the "Red" part in the title is a snide at the old KGB. Ironically, that night on Coast to Coast he was succeeded by Len Kasten, who "discussed the alleged secret government exchange program with ETs from the planet Serpo [and how] the Ebens used a deceased [U.S.] exchange member to create a new hybrid creature..." One can only wonder who the least manipulative person was on that show that night. Project Serpo, by the way, can be traced back to Air Force counter-intelligence officer Richard Doty, who has been manipulating the the UFO community since the early 1980s, beginning with Roswell.

Other very obvious neocons--hardcore Zionists, in fact--that have appeared on Coast to Coast AM are Robert Spencer and John Loftus. Spencer runs the anti-Islamic outfit Jihad Watch and sits on the advisory board of the Intelligence Summit. People visiting the website of the Intelligence Summit these days won't believe their eyes. The front page is littered with headings as "Jihad dog killing," "Muslim cannibalism," "Islamic Gangs," "Killing Christians," and "Ukraine Nazi coup." This is mixed in with conspiracy categories as "Illuminati," "FED bank," "CFR," "Club of Rome," "Committee of 300," "Pope Roman Empire," "Knights of Malta," "Jesuit spy," and "Jesuit pope." [16] Many articles equate the pope with Satan himself. Lovely pictures include the following:



Intelligence Summit caption: "Ex-bar bouncer-Communist-Fascist-Humanist-Luciferian-Satanist-Masonic-Islamist-CEO Jesuit Pope Francis, Inc." What the heck is going on here? Also makes one wonder who is behind author Eric Jon Phelps.

Interestingly, the Intelligence Summit is far from a crank website. Founder and president of the Intelligence Summit is John Loftus, a radical Zionist invited to Coast to Coast AM on August 18, 2005 and on November 17, 2012. Loftus is generally praised for his work on exposing Wall Street bankers working with the fascist regimes before World War II broke out. While accurate, Loftus is tied to the highest levels of Israeli and Zionist political and intelligence circles. Former CIA directors James Woolsey and John Deutch sat on the board of his Intelligence Summit until 2006, when very obvious Russian mafia ties to the Summit's long-term financier, Russian Zionist oligarch Michael Cherney, were made public. Woolsey and Deutch should have known about these ties, because since the late 1990s Cherney has been repeatedly and convincingly linked to the powerful Russian-Zionist Solntsevskaya mafia and its allies. These allies also include the primary Rothschild partner in Russia, Oleg Deripaska, as well as the Israeli state, which prevented a KGB/FSB-ran assassination against Cherney in 1995. [17] In 2003 Cherney also founded the Jerusalem Summit, which sponsored at least two small meetings between Israeli officials and American neocons. At the first meeting in 2003 Richard Perle and Coast to Coast's Frank Gaffney were present, along with Ehud Olmert and Benyamin Netanyahu. [18] That's two visitors of Coast to Coast AM with clear ties to Michael Cherney: John Loftus and Frank Gaffney. Basically, inviting either of these two men is the same as giving voice to propaganda of the CIA, MI6, Mossad, Russian-Zionist oligarchs and the Russian-Zionist Solntsevskaya mafia all at once. It's crazy.

In his book The Secret War Against the Jews, Loftus claims that Mossad founder Reuven Shiloah and other leading Zionists blackmailed Nelson Rockefeller in using his political influence to help establish the state of Israel in 1948. [19] Accurate or not, it would explain a few questions how the Jews went from virtual extinction in 1945, to having their own state in 1948, and on to having incredible political influence in the United States today. This while the West has always preferred to work with the Arabs, because they control the oil.

Former CIA director James Woolsey

One neocon who absolutely has to be discussed in relation to Coast to Coast AM is former CIA director James Woolsey. Listed as number 2 in ISGP's Superclass Index, with confirmed involvement in close to 90 (!) NGOs, immediately behind the more liberal-oriented Henry Kissinger, he has been prominently involved in dozens of neocon groups, the Center for Security Policy and the Intelligence Summit being just two of them. Besides these neocon connections, Woolsey has had an early and deep involvement in the defense industry, sat on numerous low-profile Pentagon committees, has been permanently present on the Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations since 1980, and interacted with Kissinger, Brzezinski, Edmond de Rothschild and other leading members of the liberal establishment at the CSIS think tank since the 1980s. He is vastly more connected than any other leading neoconservative. And he is a peculiar one at that also.

Former CIA director James Woolsey, also the #2 in ISGP's Superclass Index with involvement in different NGOs, mainly focused on national security and neoconservatism. Woolsey has played a curious background role in the UFO disinformation subject. He can be primarily tied to C2C AM visitors Catherine Austin Fitts, John Petersen, wealthy UFO cultist Joe Firmage, paranormal researcher Steven Schwartz and acts as the evil nemesis to Steven Greer and his Disclosure Project scam.

Woolsey appears to be close to a number of Coast to Coast guests. The most obvious ties are to UFO cultist Joe Firmage, Pentagon-missing-trillions whistleblower Catherine Austin Fitts, and John Petersen. All of these persons, including Woolsey, were directors of the Arlington Institute, a low profile and unorthodox think tank. [20]

The wealthy Firmage was on Coast to Coast three times in 1999. At the time he was promoting his "Project Kairos", an online book that claimed aliens had occasionally spurred human technological advancements, the last time in 1947 with the Roswell crash. There are also indications that it was his money that was used to finance the research of Robert and Ryan Wood on the Roswell/UFO-related Majestic 12 documents, all listed and analyzed at the majesticdocuments.com website. [21] Robert and Ryan Wood first appeared on Coast to Coast in 1998. Since 2002 they have been invited about a dozen times, usually separately. Robert Wood used to be an employee of McDonnell Douglas, linked to Laurance Rockefeller and a financier of Colonel John Alexander's "spoon bending parties" of the early 1980s. [22] Clearly their MJ-12 research is bogus, as even their colleague Stanton Friedman has confirmed on many occasions. One of the examples would be that on their website they give a 1952 annual report of Majestic 12 a rating of 4 out of 5 stars in terms of authenticity, even though it talks about a "retro-virus" being extracted from the Roswell aliens. The whole concept of retroviruses was only understood in the late 1970s, a few years before the outbreak of the first really deadly (to humans) retrovirus: HIV/AIDS. The term "retrovirus" wasn't used in newspapers until after HIV had been identified as such: just go and check a few newspaper archives. Of course, the early 1980s was also the period that the first leaks of the MJ-12 documents took place, so it would have been a very exciting invention, even more so because of worries at the time that HIV would kill off a large portion of the world population.

Catherine Austin Fitts, who is known to have been invited to a board meeting of the Arlington Institute, with Woolsey and Firmage present, was first invited to Coast to Coast AM in 2005, in the wake of reports that massive amounts of Pentagon funds couldn't be accounted for. When the economic crisis hit in 2008, she became the resident economic expert for Coast to Coast, appearing roughly half a dozen times a year, these days reduced to about three times. Already in 1999 she cooperated with Michael Ruppert of From The Wilderness in exposing CIA drug trafficking. I personally always thought that Ruppert's ideas on peak oil and alternatives showed a lot of similarity with those of James Woolsey, but was still very surprised when Ruppert pointed this out himself during one of his many speeches (can't recall which one, unfortunately). Just another coincidence, I guess.

Fitts is an interesting pick to be commenting on missing Pentagon and CIA drug trafficking finances, considering she is known to have been sitting at the same table as ultimate Pentagon insider and former CIA director James Woolsey just a few years earlier. She claims to have first become skeptical of missing government finances while working under then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Jack Kemp, as assistant secretary of housing in the 1989-1990 period. Several years after Kemp apparently pushed her out, she established a close working relationship with his follow up under the Clinton administration, Henry Cisneros, who had come from the board of the Rockefeller Foundation. She appears to have had other ties to the Rockefeller clique. First as a managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and to a degree as a fundraiser of the George H. W. Bush presidential campaign. In the 1990s she was a member of the Economic Club of New York, ran by some of David Rockefeller's closest friends, including Peter Peterson (said to be interested in the UFO issue by Steven Greer). She was also a member of the Council for Excellence in Government, ran by the exact same interests. Board members since the 1990s have included Suzanne Woolsey, wife of James Woolsey; and Pilgrims Society members John Whitehead, Elliot Richardson and William Draper. [23]

Even Fitts' conflict with Jack Kemp might not be all what it seems. Jack Kemp featured very high in ISGP's Superclass Index and had the unique distinction of being deeply connected to the liberal establishment, the traditional conservative establishment and the upcoming neoconservative elites. In fact, in the years prior to his death, Kemp shared the boards of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the Coalition for Democracy in Iran, and Middle East Media Research Institute with James Woolsey, the same James Woolsey Fitts met with at board meeting of the Arlington Institute. Is that just a coincidence? Who knows, but once again Coast to Coast AM knows how to pick its guests. As the only permanent member of the Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations since 1980, Woolsey himself may well have played an important role in Fitts' invitation. Fitts:

In 1998, I was approached by John Peterson, head of the Arlington Institute, a small high quality military think tank in Washington, DC. I had gotten to know John through Global Business Network and had been impressed by his intelligence, effectiveness and compassion. John asked me to help him with a high level strategic plan Arlington was planning to undertake for the Undersecretary of the Navy. ... At the time I was the target of an intense smear campaign that would lead the normal person to assume that I would be in jail shortly or worse. John explained that the Navy understood that it was all politics —- they did not care. ... When I attended one of my first meetings, I joined in discussion with about 10 people which included James Woolsey, former head of the CIA in the Clinton Administration, Napier Collyns, founder of Global Business Network and former senior Shell executive, Joe Firmage, John, and other members of the Arlington board. The main topic of discussion was whether or not the major project for the coming year should be a white paper on how to help the American people adjust to aliens existing and living among us. I said nothing -- just listened. Not that long after, I dropped from the board due to the continued demands related to litigation with the Department of Justice and their informant."

It appears Woolsey learned a thing or two about these alien issues between 1993 and 1998. Woolsey, of course, along with Arlington Institute founder John Petersen, can be found in the Disclosure Project saga as the two persons Steven Greer had dinner with in 1993, during the early stages of the Rockefeller initiative on UFO disclosure (in more recent years Greer claims that Woolsey is running a private team of spooks that sweeps up any revolutionary energy devices developed by individuals). At that point Woolsey was Clinton's CIA director, picked for only one reason: to appease the right. In 1999 John Petersen wrote to Steven Greer:

"It has just come to the attention of the four of us that you have, without giving any of us the opportunity to comment, published a distorted account of a dinner party of some six years ago at which the four of us, you, and your wife were seated together. In the introduction to your book, Extraterrestrial Contact, published earlier this year you portray this dinner party conversation during which the four of us listened to your views and politely asked questions as a "briefing" with a "cover story." You further assert that Mr. and Mrs. Woolsey reported a UFO sighting to you and agreed with your views. You include specific alleged quotations from them. None of this is accurate. You have portrayed politeness as acquiescence and questions as affirmations. Your conduct in this manner contravenes both accuracy and simple manners." [ 24 ]

Whatever the exact details, the fact is that John Petersen and James Woolsey had dinner with Steven Greer. That's amazing enough in itself, despite the fact that Greer was invited to Laurance Rockefeller's JY Ranch that same year, along with the Clintons, and was soon cooperating with Edgar Mitchell in the UFO disclosure. It is simply bizarre that Woolsey would let himself in with scam artists as Greer. Make no mistake, Greer and certainly the majority of his witnesses and documents are all bogus. Just read the evidence that has been gathered under his name here. One would expect a CIA director to be aware of this.

A quick check of the Coast to Coast guest archive reveals that John Petersen himself has been invited, as a "futurist", in 2003 and 2010. Listening to part of the interview, he had absolutely nothing of interest to say and, looking at a few reactions here and there, was generally considered a boring guest. But he is yet another Coast to Coast guest tied to James Woolsey.

The deeper one looks, the more it seems that Woolsey is rather comfortable in these peculiar circles. According to Jack Sarfatti, in the 2001-2002 period Woolsey was working with remote viewer Steven Schwartz [25], invited to Coast to Coast on an annual basis. Sarfatti himself has been invited to Coast to Coast in 2007, 2010 and 2011, where he spoke about the link between quantum physics, spirituality and the holographic universe theory, as well as about the theory that UFOs might be using worm holes to visit earth. Sarfatti has been a co-author of Fred Alan Wolf since the 1970s on these type of ideas. Wolf first appeared on Coast to Coast in 1998 and has roughly appeared every other year since then. Both go back to SRI International, an angle related to Coast to Coast AM that still needs to be discussed.

As for other known ties of James Woolsey to this crowd, he is known to have granted an interview to Bill Moore, an enthusiast of alternative energy, which is also Woolsey's great passion. Moore subsequently was invited to Coast to Coast AM. Whether or not Woolsey had a hand in this is unknown, but surely an unusual amount of people associated with him appear on the radio show.

An exception to this rule is Bob Dratch, a DOD-related scientist who hangs out at the scammy Project Avalon forum, and who is known to count Woolsey among his "very good friends." [26] While an interesting omission from the Coast to Coast guest list, Dratch was regularly invited to Dean Stonier's Global Sciences Congresses, a disinformation outfit that operated from 1983 until Stonier's death in 2001. Numerous guests that appeared on Coast to Coast AM, were speakers at these congresses in the 1980s and 1990s: Steven Greer (in 1993 already), Al Bielek, David Icke, Linda Howe, Edgar Mitchell, Cleve Backster, David Hatcher Childress, and on it goes.

Exactly how close Woolsey is to other Coast to Coast AM guests and for what purpose he associates with them is anybody's guess. One final thing we also know about Woolsey is that he is very close to General Paul Vallely. They know each other from the Intelligence Summit, the Center for Security Policy, the American Center for Democracy, Benador Associates, the American Congress for Truth, the Iran Policy Committee and energy storage company Zinc Air (today ViZn Energy with other people). Vallely was the boss and friend of the controversial Colonel Michael Aquino, who, no later than 2009, became close friends with Colonel John Alexander. It remains a small network at the top.

C2C AM origins: Esalen, SRI and other private groups

The origins of many Coast to Coast AM guests goes back to a handful of overlapping privately-funded institutes:

Edgar Cayce Foundation...

Stanford Research Institute / SRI: 1946-.

Round Table Foundation: 1948-1958.

Foundation / Institute for the Study of Consciousness: 1952-.

Esalen Institute: 1962-.

Institute for Noetic Sciences: 1973-

In the following segments we'll discuss these groups in more detail.

SRI, CIA, Scientology and remote viewing

One of the most important elite 1970s/1980s ties many Coast to Coast AM guests share is to SRI International, at the time ran by the Bechtel family and directors who virtually all went to the Bohemian Grove, with many of the members of the international advisory board, including the Bechtels, having been invited to the 1001 Club. Certainly back in the 1960s and 1970s SRI looked like a miniature Bilderberg on America's west coast with ties ranging from Indonesia and Lebanon to South America, some of them clearly of use in CIA/State Department sanctioned coups. [27]

At the same time at SRI, but at a lower level, running around since the early 1970s were future Coast to Coast AM guests as:

Col. John Alexander

Skip Atwater

Cleve Backster

Lynn Buchanan

Ed Dames

Uri Geller

Dale Graff

Richard Hoagland

J.J. Hurtak

Dr. Edwin May

Joseph McMoneagle

Tom McNear

Edgar Mitchell Hal Puthoff*

Dean Radin

Jack Sarfatti

Stephan Schwartz

Paul Smith

General Bert Stubblebine*

Ingo Swann

Russell Targ

Charles Tart

Jessica Utts

Jacques Vallee

Watts Wacker

Alfred Webre

* Not Coast to Coast AM, but extremely close. Puthoff was a key leader of the whole remote viewing team that ended up on Coast to Coast AM, while Stubblebine's closest ally over the years, Colonel John Alexander, has been a Coast to Coast AM regular since the 1990s. Stubblebine, a known 9/11 "Truth" disinformer, and Alexander were very close to the SRI remote viewing team as well.

Most of these individuals were involved in the CIA-controlled remote viewing program, initially set up at SRI in 1972 as Project Scanate ("scan by coordinate"). It was Hal Puthoff who over the course of 1972 put the initial team together, aided by Russell Targ a few months into his project. Albeit hesitantly and in small steps, both had the blessing of the CIA top to look into this type of "psychotronic" research after reports emerged, partly through Targ, that the Soviets were spending a lot of money on developing and implementing these type of abilities into their intelligence operations. Considering its visibility in relation to Coast to Coast AM, maybe we should delve into a little bit more detail regarding the remote viewing programs.

Puthoff carried out a little initial parapsychological research at SRI back in 1971 and soon learned about an allegedly very psychic individual named Ingo Swann. Swann, a gay erotic fiction writer and painter, worked at United Nations headquarters in New York City in the late 1960s. In 1967 he spent a three week vacation at the Edgar Cayce Foundation, a Coast to Coast AM-related outfit that has always promoted the view that Edgar Cayce was the reincarnation of "Ra Ta", an ancient alien god from Atlantis who built the pyramids with anti-gravity technology. Here Cayce met psychedelics researcher Dr. Jean Houston. Houston's early establishment ties are a bit obscure, but by the 1990s she was a spritual advisor to Hillary Clinton and aided Laurance Rockefeller in bringing his bogus UFO disclosure project to the White House. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Houston certainly was close to Margaret Mead of the CIA- and Rockefeller-linked Macy Foundation and the millionaire transvestite Reed Erickson. Erickson financed some of the work of psychedelics pioneer John Lilly, as well as the globalist, spiritualist, cultic 1976 book A Course in Miracles. Houston and Erickson both were close to the "liberal CIA" Playboy Foundation that funded a variety of psychedelics endeavors. Through these two women, Swann was brought into New York City's elite parapsychology circle. Plant consciousness researcher Cleve Backster, in whose lab Swann worked for about a year, was one of them. Backster eventually made it to Coast to Coast AM. Swann's "psi" capabilities were also tested by Harvard psychologist Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler, president of establishment-linked Parapsychology Association and the American Society for Psychical Research, in an experiment financially backed by a grant of Xerox founder Chester Carlson (whose CEO, Joe Wilson, was having lunches with New York City governor Nelson Rockefeller).

It is this elite-linked New York City parapsychology network, and Cleve Backster in particular, that brings Ingo Swann to the attention of Hal Puthoff, who ends up testing Swann at SRI in mid-1972, soon hiring him to become the CIA's first remote viewer. There might be even more to this story, because by 1971 both Puthoff and Swann are ranking Operating Thetans in the Church of Scientology. To make the Scientology link even more obvious, on December 3, 1971 Puthoff and Swann run into Pat Price, who is selling Christmas trees at a lot close to SRI. Price happens to be a Scientology Operating Thetan III who apparently met Puthoff a few years earlier at a Scientology meeting is Los Angeles. Price is hired as another key remote viewer in the CIA-SRI program. Meanwhile, an invention of Cleve Backster becomes the famous "e-meter" toy of Scientology head L. Ron Hubbard. The Scientology tie of the early remote viewing program make one wonder if the CIA was operating through Scientology, even more so because L. Ron Hubbard's successors, Heber Jentzsch and David Miscavige, appeared on a list of CIA informants at one point.

During these early years, Puthoff and Targ occassionaly brief top CIA officers on the results of their program while requesting additional financing. Among the individuals they interact with are CIA Science Directorate chief Sidney Gottlieb, under whom the remote viewing project is set up; one of Gottlieb's assistants, Christopher "Kit" Green; and John McMahon, the successor of Gottlieb as head of the CIA's Office of Technical Services in the early 1970s. The latter in particular has remained a staunch supporter of the remote viewing program all the way into the 1980s when serving as William Casey's deputy CIA director. McMahon, who also heads the CIA's operations directorate in the 1978-1981 period, used to be one of the more favorite officers of Richard Helms, head of the CIA from 1966 until February 1973 and himself a supporter of MKULTRA-type research into relatively "fringe" areas as psychotronics and hypnosis. Helms' father and brother both were members of the elite Pilgrims Society, together with former CIA heads General Walter Bedell Smith and Allen Dulles and elite families as the Rockefellers, Mellons, Astors, Schiffs, Rothschilds and others.

The CIA period of the remote viewing program does not last long. In April 1973 William Colby, a protege of Helms and at that point an assistant of CIA head James Schlesinger, allows a follow-up remote viewing study, but makes it known to anticipate project termination in the near future. At this point the Watergate affair is erupting in full force, leading in a period of nearly a decade of intense scrutiny of CIA activities by congressional committees and the media (followed in the 1980s by fresh scandals as Banco Ambrosiano, Iran-Contra and BCCI). Remote viewing can easily embarress the CIA further and in July 1975, with the death of Pat Price, CIA-backing of remote viewing at SRI comes to an end.

In late 1975, several months after the death of Pat Price, the Air Force Foreign Technology Division begins to finance SRI's remote viewing program. Dale Graff becomes the new supervisor of the program. Ingo Swann remains part of the unit as the most important trainer of new recruits, which comes to include Stephan Schwartz and Edwin May. Puthoff and Targ also stay active in the new unit. Two years later, in September 1977, Army intelligence, under the code name Gondola Wish, becomes the primary financier of the remote viewing program. Six months later the name changes to the more well known Grill Flame. The founder of this program is Skip Atwater.

No matter which agency is financing the remote viewing program, members of the unit and their closest associates - many of whom listed in the SRI-Coast to Coast list above - remain a peculair bunch. Elite ties of Ingo Swann continued as well. From the 1970s on, Swann was quiet closely associated with Trammell Crow, a business partner of David Rockefeller and apparent good friend of Laurance Rockefeller, who bought some of this paintings. Crow was involved with plenty of other remote viewing and related "researchers". In the early 1990s Swann also worked with Princess Amanda Borghese, a member of the same Italian family as Prince Valerio Borghese, the fascist involved in CIA coup plotting in Italy. Colonel John Alexander, his wife Victoria Lacas, and UFO "research" financier Robert Bigelow were among Swann's other friends.

In this period, the early 1990s, many individuals from this SRI-remote viewing project started to appear on the Art Bell show. Over the years here the story of the remote viewing project was repeated ad nausum, including claims that Ingo Swann and Pat Price remote viewed aliens on the Moon and in various underground bases on Earth. Meanwhile, remote viewing veteran Ed Dames became Coast to Coast AM's doomsday prophet par excellence, predicting the imminent end of the world in a solar killshot on just about every episode he appeared in. Considering all the stories of these remote viewers have been invented out of thin air, and that there's similar evidence against every other Coast to Coast AM guest affiliated with the SRI remote viewing program, we have to wonder what type of research the CIA, Air Force and Army Intelligence have actually been financing all these years. Essentially they have been employing an army of con artists.

Round Table Foundation and the FSC

As some readers may remember, Richard Hoagland, Coast to COast AM's resident astromer, is among the SRI-affiliated. He (in)famously introduced the world to the pyramids and "face" on Mars hypothesis while employed at SRI. However, this hypothesis actually was first devised in 1976 by another latter-day Coast to Coast AM guest: James J. Hurtak. While never an official employee, Hurtak maintained a very close association with SRI over the decades. He was involved in SRI's Giza escavation project in 1977 and 1978 and again in 1982. Around the turn of the century, Hurtak was involved in the elite new religions movement surrounding the United Nations and Rockefeller-tied State of the World Forum. At Coast to Coast AM, Hurtak is known for spinning stories of giant hidden pyramids in the jungle, ancient aliens and other bogus theories along those lies. In 2006 he co-wrote a book with Russell Targ, SRI's remote viewing project founder and fellow Coast to Coast AM guest.

There is more to Hurtak. He and a wealthy individual named Arthur M. Young were working under a certain Colonel Andrija Puharich - who moonlighted as an Army researcher at Edgewood Arsenal, a site of CIA MKULTRA experimentation - at the Round Table Foundation in the 1948-1958 period. As already discussed in ISGP's Psychedelics and Elitism article, the Round Table Foundation was set up by Puharich with seed money coming from Astor, DuPont and other Eastern Establishment family members. At the foundation Puharich carried out some of the first research into "psi" phenomenona. His early research revolved around psychedelic mushrooms. As a result he stood in contact with establishment author and psychedelic pioneer Aldous Huxley, as well as Maria Sabina, the Mexican shaman who introduced Gordon Wasson, another establishmentarian and friend of CIA director Allen Dulles, to psychedelic mushrooms. Wasson made these mushrooms (and Sabina) world famous with his May 1957 article in Time magazine Seeking the Magic Mushrooms.

Puharich's main interest always revolved around extrasensory perception. Even in his mushroom research he was investigating if these mushrooms could enhance these abilities. When it came to extrasensory perception, he apparently considered little more important than the channelling of the Ennead: the nine Ancient Egyptian gods tied to Heliopolis, the city of the sun. For example, Utterance 600 of the 2,300 B.C. Pyramid Texts reads:

"O Great Ennead who are in Heliopolis: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys; O children of Atum..."

Puharich's first experience with the Ennead was when he invited a certain Dr. D. G. Vinod from India to his Round Table Foundation in late December 1952. This Dr. Vinod was the first to channel the Ennead for him. Later Puharich brought a certain Harry Stone over from the Netherlands, who under hypnotic trance allegedly provided evidence in the form of drawn hieroglyphics that in a past life he was a high priest in Ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Snefru (reign 2614-2591 B.C.), the father of Great Pyramid builder Cheops. Stone also claimed that in this past life he was part of a sacred mushroom cult.

Alice Astor, a daughter and sister of influential intelligence-tied Pilgrims Society members, was among the persons hypnotized by Puharich. She claimed to have had a past life in Syria in which she was part of a mushroom cult that tripped on the Amanita muscaria. Despite a total absence of evidence that such cults have existed, even today this type of speculation is more popular than ever through questionable psychedelic gurus/adventurers as John Marco Allegro, James Arthur, Jan Irvin, Graham Hancock and Joe Rogan - some of them Coast to Coast AM visitors.

In 1971 and early 1972 Puharich was in Israel, hypnotizing Uri Geller, who by that time counted Mossad directors, defense department and army intelligence chiefs, and prime ministers among his circle of patrons. Puharich brought Geller over to SRI for additional "research" by astronaut Edgar Mitchell - another emerging new age guru and life-long patron of Geller who later appeared on Coast to Coast AM - and the CIA's remote viewing clique. Some of the researchers were "in awe" of Geller's capabilities, with a few others dismissing Geller from early on. After a number of news reports about these SRI experiments, Geller became a famous superstar, to the point that to this day almost everybody has heard of him.

Mainly known for his spoon-bending and other "psi" tricks, early on Geller also channelled "the Nine" (Ennead). As for the trustworthiness of this information, take note that Puharich and Geller have always claimed that many of the tapes of these sessions "dematerialized" after recording them and that the tapes that survived have been lost. Puharich and Geller were also communicating with "Spectra", a conscious supercomputer aboard a spaceship many lightyears from Earth, and space aliens called "Hoova" who landed in Israel 20,000 years ago and interacted with the Biblical Abraham here. What do these stories remind one of? The average Coast to Coast AM interview maybe? ISGP has a separate oversight/article on Uri Geller. As we might aspect from the average Coast to Coast AM guest, Geller has been caught cheating on several occasions while performing or attemping to perform so-called paranormal acts, similar to what illusionists do.

By 1974 Puharich was working with a certain Joyce Petchek, who under hypnosis claimed she used to be an Ancient Egyptian princess. At the time Puharich was working closely with Jack Sarfatti, a future Coast to Coast AM guest at the time attached to SRI and the Esalen Institute; as well as his long-time friend Ira Einhorn, a national security-linked new age environmentalist who would soon be on the run for murdering his ex-girlfriend. Interesting detail: Einhorn was able to stay hidden for so many years in no small part due to a $1,500 per month stipend of Barbara Bronfman, the wife of Charles Bronfman (a brother of Edgar Bronfman Sr., worth several billion dollars) from 1961 to 1982. Barbara Bronfman also was a life-long friend, or at least a relatively close acquaintance of Puharich. From 1980 until his death in January 2005, Puharich lived and worked on an estate owned by tobacco heir R.J. Reynolds III. More details and sources on Andrija Puharich can be found in ISGP's Psychedelics and Elitism article.

Questions of MKULTRA

Harold Chipman: Served under Ted Shackley in Berlin in the mid 1950s, JM/Wave in Miami in the 1962-1965 period, possibly in Laos from 1966 to 1968, and Saigon from late 1968 to February 1972. Subsequently, Shackley was the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division (the Americas) chief 1972 - May 1976, and deputy director of operations May 1976 - December 1977, at which point the Carter administration undermined his dream of becoming CIA director. It's tough to say what Chipman was doing for Shackley outside of Berlin, JM/Wave and Saigon. " In the mid '80s, I met a guy named Harold Chipman, who's now dead. He was the Station Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency in Munich, Germany and he ran MK ULTRA in San Francisco. Apparently he was one of the guys behind the scenes that set up the SRI experiments. In the mid Eighties he actually funded some of my work and tried to get a think tank going. So these connections with the United States government intelligence community have been there almost all my life." June 1969 case of a suspected double agent in Chipman. Green Berets asked for permission to kill him. Shackley wasn't available, so the Green Berets asked a number of aides and associates. Most gaveBut according to the Green Berets, Harold Chipman, at that point the covert operations chief under Shackley, had replied:The Green Berets saw this as enough confirmation and killed the suspected double agent. Upon Shackley's return, he did not agree with the assassination and informed ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton Abrams of the incident. It is suspected that the recent surfacing of the My Lai massacre and additional charges against the CIA of Phoenix Program death squad activity - which Shackley was running - played a role in Shackley adhering to protocol. Blond Ghost: "That left Harold Chipman, the operations chief, in charge. Having served with Shackley in Berlin and Miami, he was considered a protege of the chief.* On June 17, Chipman showed Crew and Brumley into his office. The two asked once more if the Agency would take Chuyen off their hands. Chipman said no. Crew noted that Enking had suggested that eliminating Chuyen might be the only course. What would Shackley think of that? Crew asked. According to the Green Berets, Chipman replied, "He won't have any objections to this, considering all the people that disappeared when he was in Laos." Crew and Brumley then reported to Colonel Robert Rheault, commander of all the Green Berets. The two explained their problem with Chuyen and recounted the informal advice they had received at Shack- ley's station. Pressed by Rheault, Crew recommended executing Chuyen." "Can your sources tell you what kind of a car [Chipman] drove in San Francisco in the 80s. I want to see how good they are. What about the LSD safe house he ran on Telegraph Hill I guess in early 60's. See if they could tell you exact circumstances when he introduced himself to me - puppet master to puppet." The CIA Phoenix Program prisons called PICS were run by the South Vietnamese Special Branch police but the truth is they just didn't think Chuyen was important enough to bother going to the trouble. Instead the special forces received an unofficial green light to just kill Chuyen from one of Shackley's proteges, Harold Chipman, who foolishly brought Shackley's name into it, saying, "Shack won't mind; he carried out 250 political murders in Laos." Chipman started funding my work in 1985. He said he had secretly funded part of the SRI work in remote viewing. He also introduced me to V. He was involved with a Texas Company TLC and a man named Joe Peeples who was indicted for selling arms to Iran in the mid-80’s [Peeples is super-obscure, but mentioned in: May 23, 1986, Detroit Free Press, '3 charged in [Iranian] arms plot'; reported friend of Yaacov Meridor, a long-time ally of Menachem Begin]. "Harold Chipman believed that it worked and told me that he had used it successfully in his business. Indeed, he introduced me to a glamorous private detective, V, as one of his best performers in remote-viewing operations. V and I became lovers. She confirmed that she had participated in experiments with Chipman." -- I was then simply a young inexperienced naive ‘useful idiot’ in a very very sophisticated and successful covert psychological warfare operation run by the late Brendan O Regan of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the late Harold Chipman who was the CIA station chief responsible for all mind-control research in the Bay Area in the 70’s. Chipman (aka “Orwell”) funded me openly for awhile in 1985 when he was allegedly no longer in the CIA, and covertly before that, and told me much of the story. In fact, he even introduced me to a beautiful woman adventurer-agent who was one of his RV subjects who later became my live-in ‘significant other' "... based on “fact” very much like Esalen founder, Michael Murphy’s novel about the Russian Psi Movement in the Cold War “An End to Ordinary History” is not really pure fiction. I lived in the apartment on Telegraph Hill [home to the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax 1955-1965 at 225 Chestnut St.] on 2 Whiting Place that Michael [Murphy] describes as Jacob Atabet’s abode. “Atabet” is obvious code for Qabalistic “Aleph-Bayt” alphabet soup. (Grin). Michael lived there before me and I got the place from him. ... I arrived at Cornell at age 17 [1956; graduated in 1960] on full scholarship arranged by Walter Breen who was working on a gifted children project under Professor William Sheldon of Columbia University Psychology Department financed by Eugene McDermott, a co-founder of Texas Instruments, with strong ties to US Intelligence from WWII. Phil Morrison, one of the founders of SETI was my advisor. ... Walter Breen attempted to induce paranormal powers in us kids (1954 – 56), although no drugs were used. Agents allegedly from New Mexico who I met monitored his project. I also met CIA Chief of Station Harold Chipman in mid 80’s who was very much part of this project. Chipman wrote some of the episodes in the TV series “The Enforcer”based on his CIA career. He also wrote a treatment for a screen play “The Union” about a rogue CIA group like Vallee’s “Alintel” [Alien Intelligence] using remote viewing against the Soviets. He was an important part of MK ULTRA going back to the fifties and had a hand in the SRI remote-viewing (RV) project of Puthoff and Targ with astronaut Edgar Mitchell and Brendan O Regan. Police Commissioner Pat Price was a close associate of “Chip’s” and Price was a “star” of the RV project along with Uri Geller and Ingo Swann. Puthoff was not aware of Chipman’s role in what he was doing at the time." "There is reference to CIA Harold Chipman's MK Ultra houses on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco in late 50's & 60's that Kim Burrafato remembers as a kid grwoing up there." "I don't know if Ira knew Pat Price. But the late Harold Chipman of CIA said (1985) he was one of Pat Price's closest friends and had something to do with Price coming to SRI. I am not sure but I think Price and Chip may have been involved in the same industrial security firm in the Bay Area." "We were part of the covert psy war op which got high level Soviet officials to Esalen hot tubs where their minds were altered by psychedelics and our boys turned them - hence the fall of the Soviet Empire. Note that Boris Yeltsin came to America with Esalen money before he became President of Russia and that the head of Gorbachev Foundation USA is a former Esalen official." "July 1974 Pat Price's operational remote viewing of a facility near Semipalatinsk in USSR conducted. This was really controlled by Harold Chipman at a layer Hal Puthoff was not privy to. Chip met Russell Targ at Henry Dakin's 3220 Sacramento St ~ 1985 don't know if Russ recalls but there were witnesses (Creon Levit, me, Bob Jones, Kim Burrafato)." "Summer 1973 Pat Price and Ingo Swann remote view NSA's Sugar Grove facility in West Virginia. Pat Price very close friend of Hal Chipman's. Indeed they had some private security business. Chip also allegedly part of early MK ULTRA in San Francisco. Some episodes TV Series The Enforcer written by Chip. I also have his film treatment "The Union" on anti-Soviet CIA RV Cold War Ops (fictionalized). Hal Puthoff still refuses to acknowledge Chip's role in all this. Chip told me Hal was out of the loop on that for security reasons. Chip and Neocon Pundit Stephen Schwartz had a great falling out. Reason is classified for this forum. " Ask Hal & Russ directly they are bcc’d. I do not want to put words in their mouth. Pat Price came to SRI because of CIA Chief of Station the late Harold Chipman http://www.stardrive.org/chip/ChipmanFile.pdf Hal Puthoff disputes that, but Chip told it to me directly and to Bob Jones and others at Henry Dakin’s at a talk given by Russell Targ in mid-80’s. --- philipcoppens.com/starconundrum_react.html:--- "The CIA's main contact in funding SRI's work was Harold Chipman. The US Navy's Project Manager in SRI was James Foote. ... Chipman had been Chief of Operations of Nha Trang Office called the Combined Studies Detachment, in Vietnam, had previously been stationed in Moscow, Berlin and Miami, and had served in Sumatra [Indonesia], Korea, Philippines and Laos. Chipman is the subject of four citations as a CIA officer in Daniel Brandt's NameBase. Information on Foote from private sources" JS: I only met Puharich in 1974. Walter Breen did not use hypnosis on us Space Kids 1953 – 56. DE: Still confused about this. How is Hubbard connected possibly? JS: Hubbard connected to Arthur Young – major player. DE: Any comment about relationship between Scientology and SRI? JS: No direct knowledge. I only know about est & Esalen as arenas for Cold War Games. " Along with a Texan, Joe Peeples, and a Romanian expatriate who claimed to be an energy professor, [Menachem Begin friend Yaacov] Meridor drew up a blueprint for using the sun as a source of energy" --- "Joseph J. Trento - 2005 - History Using the alias "John Black," he announced himself, with his bewildered agent in tow, only to see CIA officer Harold Chipman, dressed in a Goering-style leather ... who was Jack Parson’s room mate and partner of Frank Malina. I met Frank Malina in Paris via Carlo Suares. Small world. Plenty of room at the bottom (Feynman), but it’s crowded at the top!

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MI5 and MI6 assets?

In 1996 former Rothschild employee (The Economist was headed by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild 1972-1989) [28] and likely MI6 foreign policy asset Graham Hancock made the party complete when he visited the radio show for the first time, six months after fellow-"Egyptologist" John Anthony West's first appearance. Does one really think it is a coincidence that Hancock manipulates his data in order to claim a 10,500 B.C. origin of the Giza plateau? Unlikely. His purpose is to back up the Cayce cultists he is so close to, including Coast to Coast AM rock star David Wilcock, whom everybody just accepts as the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce--and therefore also the reincarnation of "Ra-Ta", the half-god, half-man who, Cayce claimed, built the Great Pyramid around... 10,500 B.C. The influence of Coast to Coast extends so far that Wilcock actually reached the 16th place of the New York Times best seller list. How incredible is that?

Coast to Coast AM guests David Wilcock and Graham Hancock. Don't buy a car from either of these men.

As ISGP's historical timeline in the column on the right makes clear, all these alternative history lessons are complete nonsense and the fact that people like Wilcock and Hancock are allowed on the air night after night should instantly make it clear to listeners that something is really wrong with this radio show. These aren't even Wilcock's most bizarre claims. In 2011 he gave hourly updates on secret human underground bases being destroyed by aliens at the time a number of earthquakes occurred in the United States. Wilcock is discussed in more detail in ISGP's Atlantis article, while Hancock has his own article these days at ISGP.

Coast to Coast AM's resident astronomer and most frequent guest, Richard Hoagland, is also discussed in these articles about Atlantis and Graham Hancock. In 1998 Graham Hancock wrote The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet, supporting the views of Richard Hoagland on Cydonia--first developed by Hoagland at, you'll never guess, SRI--and the idea that there once used to be an advanced human civilization on Mars. Even today Hancock continues to defend the theory of himself and Hoagland. Over the years Hoagland--also known as "Hoaxland"--has been promoting pyramids on the Moon, pyramids and frozen iced-over cities on Mars, Abydos' "high technology" hieroglyphics, and the theory that the World Trade Center was destroyed by a type of secret energy beam weapon. He used to work for Walter Cronkite and William Paley at CBS, two Pilgrims Society members who had annual Christmas dinners at the Alibi Club with CIA director and fellow Pilgrim, Allen Dulles. He also appears to have long-standing ties to Dr. George Keyworth of the Center for Security Policy. [29]

Circumstantial evidence for Hancock's elite and/or MI6 ties is that another Economist-employed foreign policy expert of the late 1970s/early 1980s, dream shaman Robert Moss, became an important Coast to Coast guest beginning in 2005. Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, however, Moss was more concerned with undermining British labor unions and helping the CIA bring dictator Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. He was a protege of MI6 disinformation specialist Brian Crozier, another foreign policy specialist at The Economist, a friend of partial Economist owner Lord Jacob Rothschild, as well as Rupert Murdoch, Richard Perle and persons high up in the CIA. Crozier used to chair sessions of the CIA and Otto von Habsburg-ran Cercle group. A couple of years back, I asked Moss to comment about his own visits to the Cercle group, but he declined to respond.

Maybe there's not a whole lot to criticize about Moss' work, certainly not in contrast to most Coast to Coast guests, but his background, which of course he never mentions, is definitely among the most bizarre. And it would be really nice to know how long and how well Graham Hancock has known him.

I'd say another major suspect of being a British intelligence asset is Coast to Coast AM guest David Icke. Right after appearing on national television in an aquamarine jogging suit proclaiming us all sons and daughters of God, he and some of his followers became prominent crop circle dancers. The level of aggression and silliness in the ridiculing of a serious subject is typically British. MI5 "whistleblower" David Shayler claiming that the WTC towers were hit by "missiles wrapped in holograms" and subsequently becoming a transvestite messiah proclaiming that the world will end in 2012 is another such example, as well as the numerous curious ''erotic asphixiation'' deaths linked to British intelligence circles. Suicides with people found stuffed in a sports bag or hanging on the ceiling strapped in a diver's suit and gas mask on? They could have put that stuff in a Benny Hill or Allo Allo episode. Gotta love the British.

PART II: UFO DISINFORMATION

Roswell: the original Air Force psyop?

Quite possibly the subject most associated with Coast to Coast AM is the 1947 Roswell crash. The story in a nutshell: in 1947 New Mexico rancher Mac Brazel and members of his family stumble across metallic debris on their land that they can't readily identify. This is the time of the famous UFO flap, so associates of Brazel in nearby Corona soon suggest and joke that the debris might be part of a flying saucer. On Sunday, July 6, Brazel travels to Roswell to speak with sheriff George Wilcox about his find. He shows him some of the wreckage. Wilcox contacts Roswell Army Air Field, five miles south of town. The base sends its senior intelligence officer, Major Jesse Marcel, together with counter-intelligence officer Lieutenant Colonel Sheridan Cavitt, to check out the material on Brazel's rather remote ranch.

Before we go on: Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) was not exactly as insignificant as it sounds. At the time it was where the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force was located. The 509th had just become part of Strategic Air Command's 11 founding bases and was the only bomb group in the country in the possession of nuclear weapons. Part of the above top secret Manhattan Project, the 509th dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The base commander at the time of the Roswell incident, Colonel William H. ''Butch'' Blanchard, was tapped as the backup pilot for the Hiroshima bomb. This same Blanchard had been a protege of Air Force general Curtis LeMay since the spring of 1945, when Blanchard became LeMay's assistant chief of staff for operations in the strategic and wholesale thermite firebombing of Japanese cities. [30] Near the end of the war LeMay got Blanchard involved in the Manhattan Project.

Modern version of events: Roswell alien spacecraft crashed by lighting during a thunderstorm. Great opening for a science fiction movie, but not even remotely what rancher Mac Brazel described right on the day the "flying saucer" find was announced by Colonel William Blanchard, a protege of Air Force generals Curtis LeMay and Nathan Twining, both of the ultra-right American Security Council.

After World War II, LeMay became famous for building up Strategic Air Command (SAC) in a highly-efficient nuclear strike force aimed against the Soviet Union. As described in ISGP's American Security Council article, during his period as SAC commander LeMay became somewhat notorious for trying to instigate a war with the Soviet Union in order to finish it off permanently with a full nuclear strike. That is, if it were to resist a peaceful surrender to U.S. authority. This strategy, also known as "Project Control", remained popular in Air Force circles until the Soviet Union developed a nuclear weapons arsenal of its own, followed by effective delivery systems. From 1957 to 1961 LeMay was vice chief of staff of the Air Force, followed by the position of chief of staff from 1961 to 1965. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he arose as a notorious opponent of Kennedy's diplomatic efforts, instead preferring to invade Cuba. After his retirement, LeMay joined the national strategy committee of the ultra-right American Security Council and continued to push for hardline policies, along with top CIA, FBI and Pentagon officials and Wackenhut executives. General Thomas Power, LeMay's deputy and the person who succeeded him as SAC commander, later also joined the national strategy committee of the ASC.

Then there was General Nathan Twining, the head of Air Materiel Command at Wright Patterson Air Force Base when the Roswell crash happened. According to documents Stanton Friedman has been promoting, Twining flew into nearby Alamagordo Air Base from July 7 to 11, immediately after news of the Roswell wreckage reached the Army Air Forces. This doesn't matter that much, as under all circumstances the Roswell wreckage was destined for Air Materiel Command. Twining was Air Force chief of staff from 1953 to 1957 and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960. Like LeMay and Power, after his retirement Twining joined the American Security Council, becoming a co-chairman of its national strategy committee. Unsurprisingly, all these men were supporters of Project Control. The project is described as follows in ISGP's American Security Council article:

"It was in this period, in the early days of days of the Cold War, that some senior military officers flirted with the idea of attacking the Soviet Union "preventively", because they were certain that Stalin was going to attack the West as soon as he had produced a significant arsenal of nuclear weapons. The strategy designed under Project Control in the early 1950s at the U.S. Air War College was preferred by this group. It gave the Soviet Union six months to capitulate under terms outlined by the Americans. If the Soviet Union would refuse to comply, the United States would attack it with nuclear weapons.



"This study was strongly tied to future American Security Council members. Its head was Colonel Raymond Sleeper, an ASC national strategy committee member. Among the supporters were General Curtis LeMay; his deputy at Strategic Air Command, Thomas S. Powers; Air Force General Nathan Twining and Admiral Arthur W. Radford. Another supporter was General George Keegan, whose activities were closely intertwined with the ASC."

From 1966 to 1968 the Colonel Raymond Sleeper mentioned here was Commander of the Foreign Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Wright Patterson is the base where the Roswell debris--whatever it was--was flown to, with the Foreign Technology Division being the location of the mythical Hanger 18 where the debris was allegedly stored. In the 1966-1968 period Sleeper was also the boss of J. Allen Hynek, the lead investigator of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official UFO study project until it was finally closed down in 1969. While Twining and LeMay acknowledged the reality of the UFO phenomenon in private [31], Sleeper publicly and harshly denounced it. [32] Hynek took the opposite view. In 1973 he set up the supposedly independent Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), where a decade later Don Schmitt became one his most important proteges. This same Don Schmitt became a superstar on Coast to Coast AM in the 1990s and today is seen as one of the most pre-eminent Roswell researchers alongside Stanton Friedman. The problem is: he's putting out utter garbage, something we will get to. What is important to demonstrate here is that a tight-knit network of ultra-right Air Force officers, a lot of them members of the American Security Council, had close ties to the Roswell business and the UFO phenomenon in general.



August 7, 1953, Order of Daedalians meeting. F.l.t.r.: Gen. George Kenney, who brought LeMay to SAC; Gen. Clements McMullen, who reportedly ordered the Roswell cover-up; Gen. Curtis LeMay, and, completely on the right, Gen. Nathan Twining. LeMay and Twining later became ASC national strategy committee members. Colonel Blanchard of Roswell fame was a protege of these people, especially LeMay. August 7, 1953, Order of Daedalians meeting. F.l.t.r.: Gen. George Kenney, who brought LeMay to SAC; Gen. Clements McMullen, who reportedly ordered the Roswell cover-up; Gen. Curtis LeMay, and, completely on the right, Gen. Nathan Twining. LeMay and Twining later became ASC national strategy committee members. Colonel Blanchard of Roswell fame was a protege of these people, especially LeMay.

Although it isn't clear if he ever was a member of the American Security Council, Colonel Butch Blanchard was best friends with these men. Apart from him being a protege of LeMay in the final year of World War II, in 1956 he, Twining and Power visited the Soviet Union together. After returning to the United States, Blanchard expressed worries about the rapid developments of the Soviet arms industry, a fact which undoubtedly would not have gone unnoticed by members of the American Security Council. [33] Blanchard rose through the ranks of the Air Force at a very fast pace, even faster than Twining and LeMay. He died in his office at the Pentagon in 1966 at the age of 50, but already at this point was a four-star general and vice chief of staff of the Air Force. Almost certainly he would have become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after which he would have moved to private industry and quite possibly the American Security Council, the same path Twining and LeMay took.

Clearly Roswell Army Air Force base commander Colonel William Blanchard was a man with ambitions and top level connections in the Air Force. His involvement in the Manhattan Project proves he was used to the tightest security restrictions imaginable. So isn't it strange then what he did on July 8, 1947? After having seen the wreckage retrieved by Cavitt and