1 - The Black Vault

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.0 ne clv_uan , 'I' orgJJuzatton , , stoo d apmi tro1n ' Hle . m;J})nty. . , 'I'', t1ts g_roup coull i not b ,e east '1 y lhsmJssed , .
given the credibility of its rnembershlp. In 1 t):)()_ '\zfV)' physicist Thornas Broi.-vn f~,:.unded NICAP,
the 1'\-atk.Hlal In\restig:1tions Comrn.ittec on P .... erial Phenon;.en::t, :.111 TJnldentified flying Ob_iCLl sand
related events study grottp. Although NICAP ..-,r~-;-:-:s a ci•,.lllan nrgan1zation and contained many \\··e11-
kno~xn c1vi!ian LIFO!ogisb, a d1slutb1ngl_y large nuJ.:nbc.r ofnJcntb~.r~ \V{:fe ret~red Air Force and
CIA jJQrsonneL The Aeg:i:-; operat1\·es "'-'ho ~~ ... (~re monlloting the group l.H.;catne acutely avv-f!rc rhut
n1any of the ~NICAP rnen1bers h;:td secr.::t agendas. The c,perati\·t::slearned that some I>HCi\P
members \m~~re I"C:porting back to groups \vi thin the CiA and other Intelligence Commun1ty
org::ulizations Other men1bers seen1ed to be 1vorking t~~,r an organization ur organizations that
Aegis CCJtdd not identifY Due to the extent ~,J!'NiCAP 1 ~ infiltration b:v' agc~nts tl-om outside
orgt:mizations with unknov.:n objecTives., little of the dara it 1nanaged to collect can be tru.~ted. AJso,
Aegis' inability to identif~~~ all the organizaticn:s \Vithin \.lC/\P made Aegis Prime more
paranoid than ,wer. Despite all this, ;'HCAJ' serv~d as a fi:·n ilc ground for recruiting wenconnected
operatives and Cells
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