Secret_History

10 The Secret History of the World
evidence for any of it, after that event, is about zero. To spell it out in Dolan’s
words:
Regarding matters connected with “national security”, there appears to be a wealth
of information that does not exist officially. Thus, a request to find such documents
through a Freedom of Information Act request would be in vain. Add to this the
likelihood that perhaps the most sensitive information regarding UFOs may not
even exist in document form (“the first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper”,
Richard Helms), and one can appreciate the difficulty that an honest UFO
researcher has in ferreting out the truth. 11
Now, let us take a few logical steps. The UFO problem emerged into the
national consciousness in 1947, or thereabouts. Not long afterward, a lot of people
began asking a lot of questions. The government wasn’t answering, and so the
people began to band together to find out the answers for themselves. They started
forming groups. And this is where things get just a bit curious. The thing that was
most threatened by the UFO/alien issue seems to have been the Standard
Monotheistic Religions. Religion seems to be a necessary component of political
control. Social control - that is the mainstay of religion - was most definitely
under threat. In fact, what seems to be true is that it is not even clear that religions
- as we know them - would have survived a full disclosure. So the logical
conclusion is that part of the main reason for the cover-up was to “protect the
religious status quo”.
As things stood at the time, protecting the religious status quo - mainly the
social controls that stem from religion - was iffy at best. After a century of
scholarly investigation into many religious texts, and the raising of many questions
about the “old time religion”, there were a lot of people in society who were most
definitely turning away from religious dogma. It’s fairly simple to take the next
logical step and see that a combining of the questions of those who were
disenchanted with religion, with the questions of those who wanted to know just
what the heck was going on in terms of possible “extraterrestrials”, was seen as a
dangerous and explosive mixture. Something had to be done.
The activities of COINTELPRO in attempting to neutralize political opposition
have been pretty well exposed. But we are now considering the fact that, in
addition to political activists, it seems that COINTELPRO has particularly targeted
groups that are seeking the truth about the interactions between the US
government and Ultra Terrestrials, or so-called “aliens”. That a long-time cover-up
of these matters has been in effect is certainly evident to any careful researcher.
The COINTELPRO files show the U.S. Government targeted a very broad range
of religious, labor and community groups opposed to any of its agendas, and it is
only logical to assume that the same type of operation would be created to cover
11 Ibid., p. 184.