Eisenhower Mail 2 -
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Published on: 11/10/2001
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Dwight D. EisenhowerEisenhower ArticlesDisclosure Testimony
Eisenhower Answers His UFO Mail
The CIA's Robertson UFO panel met during the last few days of the Truman administration.It ended the UFO discussion, and any plans for future UFO investigations, only days before Eisenhower took office.The report filed by the CIA committee was sent not to the Truman administration, for whom the study was done, but to the new Eisenhower administration. (It is found in an NSC file at the Eisenhower library)
Along with the CIA-sponsored report sent to the Eisenhower White House, came the revisionist opinions that had been arrived at by the panel.The panel had called for active debunking of UFOs in the public mind.It also called for surveillance of public UFO groups."It is believed that such organizations should be watched because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur.The apparent irresponsibility and possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind."
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In public, Eisenhower portrayed the good natured and trusted father figure.Behind the scenes he had targeted many people to be watched by the Secret Service and the FBI.One of the targeted groups were people who believed there was a UFO mystery, and had written the President for help or to make recommendations.
Documents inside the National Archives show that as of 1963, just shortly after Eisenhower left office, the Secret Service had a million names in its "threat" files.These were names of people who were seen as a threat to the President, and who had to be watched lest they harm the President.Included in this list was anyone who had dined at the White House, obtained a press pass, or anyone who had been introduced to the President on a trip.
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Len Stringfield's threat to the President came first from the December 17, 1954-letter (mentioned above) to President Eisenhower following Eisenhower's press conference statement on December 15, 1954 where he stated "the last time I heard this talked to me, a man who I trust from the Air Forces said that it was, as far as he knew, completely inaccurate to believe that they came from any outside planet or otherwise."
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The second item sent to Eisenhower was a telegram which is one of the five items the Eisenhower Library lists as part of its collection of UFO documents.It was written just after Ike's famous February 1954 Palm Springs vacation, where it is rumored he slipped off to Edward's Air Force Base on alien business.
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The third item sent to Eisenhower was the most interesting.
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Further, it was common knowledge that Eisenhower was so busy, that very few people actually got to see the President.
Van Tassel, however, claimed to have been "close enough to him (Eisenhower) the time he came to Palm Springs to know what was going on."
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Knowles further notified Eisenhower that the Navy, and the Canadian government were investigating the strange powers being exhibited by Mrs. Swan.
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Firstly, whether orchestrated by Eisenhower or the Air Force, Eisenhower's friend, Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Nathan Twinning, made a surprising digression in a speech in Amarillo, Texas, less than forty-eight hours later to talk about the UFO problem."The best brains in the Air Force are working on this problem of Unidentified Flying objects," he stated, "trying to solve this mystery."