Politics and Mind Control

As the politics of the upcoming American presidential election begin to heat up, I am reminded of one of my favorite television series from the 1960's: Patrick McGoohan's brilliantly eclectic "The Prisoner."

For those unfamiliar with the classic series, which was imported into the United States by CBS in 1968, the basic plot was simple: A secret agent suddenly resigns his position, without explanation, and minutes later finds himself inexplicably in "The Village," a bizarre international community for persons who know too much.

Many of the seventeen episodes of the original production were built upon science-fiction based technologies to penetrate the human mind.

Some of the strange mind-twisting plot lines from the 1960s involved the use of powerful information extracting "designer drugs," bombardment of the head with pulsing electromagnetic fields and flashing lights, a machine capable of visually displaying a person's drug-induced dream state, projection of information into the subconscious mind for "speed learning," using powerful super-computers, regression of the mind, and the seemingly impossible machine-induced "telepathic" transfer of the mind of one man into the body of another.

For those used to 1960s American television, this was heady stuff, suitably fitting for the post-summer-of-love psychedelic climate of that era.

Like Stanley Kubrick's epic space adventure/psychedelic mind-expansion masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Prisoner" had arrived at the right place and at the right time.

McGoohan's allegorical vision of spy vs. spy science fiction was also prophetic. Inside every home, around every corner, sights and sounds were monitored by shadowy observers. I am still amazed how quickly this reality has overtaken our modern 21st century lives: the phone in my pocket is also a world wide high definition video broadcast system. The reality has actually outpaced McGoohan's once-fearful nightmare of the ever-present big brother. In 1966, no one imagined the combined power of mobile information and social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

For more about how our modern society has evolved into the world foreseen by "The Prisoner" check out my four-part series "The Prisoner: Mind Control, Then and Now" at the STARpod.org website.

One of the earliest "Prisoner" episodes was also one of my favorites: "Free for All," a wild mixture of mind-bending brain-washing and political campaigning.

"The community can rest assured that their interests are very much my own, and that anything I can do to maintain the security of the citizens, will be my primary objective."

You can catch a preview at youtube.com.

Speaking of mind-bending wild rides, STARstream Research has yet to weigh in with a solid prediction on the 2012 US presidential election. Part of the reason is we are getting mixed messages from our "anomalous mental phenomena" sources, who often inspire new twists into our predictive methods.

One of the most interesting results we obtained in 2009 concerned a possible threat to Obama's address to the Congress on Health Care Reform. Our original notes determined the threat was "null" but then added that someone named WILSON would have a negative impact on that evening's events. Of course at the time we obtained this result we had no idea that Congressman Joe Wilson would shout "You lie!" at President Obama.

Our current best guess assessment of the information at hand is the winner is yet to be "written into the stars" -- psychic spy source Chris Robinson has stated his belief that Mr. Obama will be re-elected to a second term.

Of all the Republican hopefuls only one has elicited an anomalous mental impression of becoming "Mr. President": Newt Gingrich -- and this only recently, as of the first days of December 2011. As I am writing this, Mr. Gingrich has been endorsed by former presidential candidate Herman Cain.

As I wrote to Chris Robinson, "Given the polarity here in US I expect (as a Many Worlds advocate) a major branching of future events (not unlike post-9/11) ... now wondering which branch I will land in :-)"

John L. Petersen futurist founder of The Arlington Institute quotes Newt Gingrich's endorsement of his book "A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change."

Petersen's book, according to Gingrich, "will stimulate you to think deeply about the challenges we face, the solutions we need, and the changes that should occur."

Maybe Mr. Petersen already knows something more about the 2012 elections? We'll just have to wait and see.

"Be seeing you!"

Hunt for the FALCON: Adventures in the UFO SOAP OPERA

Since the UFO SOAP OPERA ultimately includes every human being ever born on this planet, any guide to the soap must necessarily be an abridged version.

It is also true that the majority of characters in this tale of otherworldly interests are guilty simply by association. That said, it is also true that the largest association by far, apart from the otherworld fraternity, is the United States Government. And among the set of characters currently employed by the USG, are those associated by a certain three-letter fraternity known as the Central Intelligence Agency.

Guilt by Association: UFO SOAP OPERA Guide to the Cast of Characters. 

In 2005, a reliable source covertly forwarded a message to STARstream Research. The note read like a piece from an espionage thriller. At issue: Disclosure of the CORE STORY, insider tales of the Earthly presence of an extraterrestrial intelligence.

"I will think about this seriously, as long as our three-person team remains protected. I will cut and run the first instant I get a whiff that some list or ... whomever -- gets interested in me," wrote the unwitting source, "I fully agree with Ron's mystification about [former Director of Central Intelligence, Richard] Helms. Why he contacted me, wanted to meet with me privately at the National Research Council, and was so unambiguous confuses me ... "I am not prepared to repeat what he said to me before that, because I am uncertain as to his mental state -- he seemed intact, but the subject was, after all quite crazy -- he required secrecy, and he never said I would be released from it -- the CORE STORY he claimed was true is the same we have heard -- and because I am too busy, like you, I will take my counsel from Ron."

A few months later the Internet would become infected with a wild tale of a U.S. government human-alien exchange tale called SERPO. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Ron Pandolfi at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was investigating a connection between BLUE BOOK, the official USAF UFO investigation that ended in 1969, and Colonel Barry Hennessey.

"As I mentioned previously, a person working with Hennessey on Blue Book is now working with Ron at MASINT. Ron is now stating that some of the faked MJ-12 documents [MJ-12 documents include an alleged briefing about crashed flying saucers and an extraterrestrial presence written for President Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower] contained actually classified information unrelated to UFO's..."

For more see our story "The FALCON and the UFO CORE STORY"

Espionage. Secrets. Lies. Polygraph tape. An extraterrestrial alien presence. What really went down in an office at CIA? And why did CIA's Ron Pandolfi leak the story almost twenty years later?

Find out what happened when Ron Pandolfi went on the hunt for the real FALCON, the man behind the alleged leak of classified information in the MJ-12 UFO documents in "The Hunt for the FALCON."

What happened when Pandolfi set out to eliminate UFO source Rick Doty after sources claimed a senior former CIA official named John Gannon was behind the SERPO human-alien tale? A flurry of messages passed between three parties: A Senior Intelligence Official (SIO): Dr. Ron Pandolfi; a Former Senior Intelligence Official (FSIO), Christopher Kit Green; and a former USAF Office of Special Investigations (USAF OSI officer), Rick Doty. At the heart of the controversy: a heated argument at CIA with USAF officials over the veracity of reports about a polygraph result.

UFO SECRETS: Not Revealed

2011: The Year SECRETS Were Revealed

It's been an interesting year.

In 2011, we learned that a former senior NSA official, Thomas Andrew Drake, had been involved with Christopher Robinson, a psychic based in the UK. 

Was Drake's interest in Robinson's alleged ability to dream about future events officially sanctioned by the National Security Agency? And was there more to Drake's indictment under the Espionage Act for whistle-blowing? How seriously was the U.S. government taking so-called psychic spying? Is there a covert operation to protect U.S. intelligence from foreign paranormal spying?

The uncovering of the Drake-Robinson NSA connection is STARpod.org's Story of the Year for 2011:

"The Shadow Knows: Thomas Drake, NSA, and SECRET Psychic Espionage"

My latest follow-up story, "Is NSA in the Psychic Spy Business," is scheduled to appear in the next issue of Daz Smith's "Eight Martinis" magazine.

In July, we published  an interview with Apollo lunar astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon.


Mitchell is not shy about discussing his belief that the Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial intelligence, but are their alien avatars walking among us? And what are we to make of tales of an extraterrestrial presence on the Moon?

When I contacted astronaut Mitchell, I naturally inquired if he knew anything about visitors inhabiting our nearest neighbor in space, noting that Kit Green, a former CIA analyst who consults to the US Defense Intelligence Agency on emerging technology threats, had come forward about government contact with alleged extraterrestrial biological entities (see Mark Pilkington's book Mirage Men and my own Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape for further information on the alleged alien presence).

How did Mitchell respond? His answers to our questions became our most revealing interview of 2011.

Is there some THING on the Moon? Astronaut Ed Mitchell Says Aliens Walk Among Us (Maybe)

Our conspiracy of the year for 2011 goes to the team at "Secrecy Kills" for the interview with Richard Clarke, the former George W. Bush White House counter-terrorism czar. Clarke wants to know why the CIA failed to share information about two al Qaeda terrorists who had entered the U.S. Was there a deliberate effort by senior CIA officials to withhold intelligence from the White House and the FBI? And what about our source Dan T. Smith and his claim that CIA official Ron Pandolfi knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance? 

'Secrecy Kills' CIA 9/11 Cover-Up Conspiracy Theory: FBI Was Told Senior Official Had "Prior Knowledge"


2011 was also the year I launched PsycheLeaks, a new project intended to push forward disclosure of paranormal secrets big and small. Our biggest disclosure in 2011 was the original email stream leaked by CIA's Ron Pandolfi in 2011, along with a couple of emails he sent us requesting we keep everything on the down low.


CIA UNAUTHORIZED | Spy Games: The Pandolfi-Green-Doty Affair leaked email stream | Source: Dr. Ronald S. Pandolfi, CIA


Finally, don't miss our review of the alleged human outpost on Mars. It looks like this story is about to grow legs once again, after Spencer Ackerman from Wired and Gizmodo managed to get a response from Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council. 


It's not called "High Strangeness" for Nothing.


First, check out the story by Ackerman, then learn more behind the scenes intrigue. Is there a White House connection? And should we be more concerned about the Martians, or the Russians?


All Our Favorite Martians: The Secret Mars Mission Affair