Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret

DATE: 30 August 1996

TO: Congressman Christopher Cox

FR: Steven M. Greer, M.D.; Int’l. Director

Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI)

Dear Congressman Cox,

Thank you for taking the time from your busy schedule to meet with Mr. ________ and me on the 19th. We hope you have had a chance to review some of the materials related to the UFO/ETI matter. Please feel free to contact us should you have any further questions or comments.

We also very much appreciate your offer to make some directed inquiries into the matter through appropriate points of contact with the intelligence committees of the Congress. As you requested, since our meeting I have been collecting information on a number of projects and facilities where advanced research and development related to extraterrestrial technology are located. We hope that this information will be useful and will enable you to make as specific an inquiry as possible.

Sources with whom I have spoken indicate that no official oversight and knowledge of these programs is likely to be found, even through intelligence committee briefings in secure settings (“the tank”). Of course, this then brings up the question of how such expensive R and D could be affected. A few possibilities are listed below, and are considered likely avenues of funding by military and intelligence people with whom we have worked on this matter.

I am not optimistic that any official and legal oversight of these projects is occurring. This is based on the following:

• Director of Central Intelligence Jim Woolsey was not briefed on any such projects. I was asked to come to Washington to brief him because he knew the matter was real but was unable to officially get any information on these projects.

• Dick D’Amato, chief counsel and investigator for the Senate Appropriations Committee, told us in 1994 that even with a top-secret clearance and subpoena power he couldn’t penetrate these operations, even though he knew they were ongoing projects, and he knew basically where to look. He said “This is the varsity team of all covert projects. Good luck…”

• A four-star general on the Joint Chiefs of Staff knew nothing of these projects, but after a briefing by a member of our team he made an inquiry through channels, and was assured nothing was there. Then he made a private inquiry to a former military colleague with whom he had attended West Point and who currently works for a major military contractor. He was told that such projects do exist and was told the locations. He was justifiably astonished and disturbed.

• Similar lack of information exists at very senior levels of the White House.

• Lord Hill-Norton, a five-star Admiral and former head of the Ministry of Defense in Great Britain has assured us that, even though, he now knows such projects exist, he was never informed about them as head of the MOD or MI5.

Of course, we have not queried the congressional intelligence committees, and will do so as you suggested. But given past experiences we would be surprised to find that they had been briefed on this matter, although this remains a possibility.

An Air Force source has told us that deep black projects can escape any direct oversight by having funds “hidden” in other projects. For example, $1 billion may be allocated for secret aerospace research and development, with certain projects cited as beneficiaries of this funding. In reality, however, $600 million may be used for the ‘acknowledged’ secret projects while the remaining $400 million is used for ‘unacknowledged’ projects.

Many of these projects have been largely ‘privatized’ by multi-billion-dollar military contractor corporations. R&D on the extraterrestrial matter is funded through ‘profits’ or revenue built into lucrative contracts with the government on ‘acknowledged’ projects.

This, then, creates an indirect source of government funding inasmuch as the funds used for UFO/ET research is derived from ‘profits and overhead’ related to legitimate projects.

These projects are global in scope and transcend both the boundaries and control of the US government. Similarly, funding is from global, i.e. foreign sources, as well as domestic and private sources.

One member of the ‘control group’ dealing with this matter has told us that there are ‘creative ways’ of funding such things out of the international monetary system, including the process of rounding off transactions so that the far decimal amounts (.00099) are placed in secure accounts for such funding purposes. This individual, who runs a major global supercomputer firm, states that this is easily done with current supercomputing technologies.

More than one source has stated that certain illegal activities by the military and CIA, such as drug trafficking, have been used to generate revenue for deep black projects.

I hope the enclosed list of facilities and projects will be helpful to your inquiry. It is by no means exhaustive, but reflects the best information to date which our team has been able to collect.

Please feel free to contact me at any time should you have any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

Steven M. Greer, M.D.

Director of CSETI

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