1 - The Black Vault

Head ofDepartment
Secretariat (Air Staft)2a
Room8285
Ministry ofDefence, Main Building
Whitehall, London SWlA 2HB
18 June 2001
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Dear sir
Pine Gap- Defence Space Research Facility. Australia
I still await a reply (or an acknowledgement) to my two letters d/ d respectively 9th April and
14th May concerning the above. As I understand the MOD operates a system which strives to
reply to queries within a reasonable timescale, I am concerned that my letters may have
become lost. I therefore enclose copies.
Project 'Rock Dust' (or Moon Dust)
During the late 1950s and through the 1960s both the US and UK governments are said to
have been involved in collecting and examining space debris under the above Project name. A
CIA document which has been in the public domain for some considerable time now and
predominantly concerned with FBI phonetapping of conversations between a friend of the late
Marilyn Monroe and an investigative reporter concerning potentially damaging security
breaches by Miss Monroe shortly before her suspicious death, descnbes how the UK
Government were intimately involved with the US in determining the origins of certain crashed
spacecraft and their occupants.
There is some evidence to suggest that investigations may have sprung from the alleged 194 7
Roswell incident, and that a British Government official was involved in·the UK side of the
investigations (although not named in the CIA memo dated 3rd August 1962).
It might be safe to assume that evidence may have been sent to RAE Farnborough or some
other location equally well suited to the task ie, where evidence could be flown in
surreptitiously. Perltaps you can firstly confirm that the British Government was jointly
involved in this operation with the US countetparts, whether the project is ongoing (if not,
when was it concluded and what were the results), the brief given to the UK scientists by the
US at that time together with a description of what was analysed and the results of that
analysis.
Yours faith:fuJ1y