Are there active counterintelligence operations infiltrating the UFO community?
Yesterday's complaint against Hosam Maher Husein Smadi presents a case study of counterintelligence operations conducted by American intelligence operatives on the Internet.
According to the indictment:
"SMADI was discovered by the FBI within an online group of extremists; an FBI undercover employee (hereafter 'FBI UCE1") was a part of that group."
The FBI investigation focused on SMADI because "SMADI stood out based on his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the United States."
Having attracted FBI attention, the FBI operative UCE1 made contact with Smadi to ascertain his intentions and eventually determined Smadi was a real threat to national security.
The FBI operative then introduced Smadi to another FBI operative who presented himself as part of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell.
The entire indictment is a fascinating example of how counterintelligence operations target persons on the Internet who are viewed as threats to national security. Since 2006 other elements of the Intelligence Community have been authorized to interact with US persons and their foreign national contacts in order to obtain intelligence on possible threats to US secrecy.
The UFO community remains a highly visible and worthwhile target of these kinds of operations because of the give and take roles played out between US and foreign nationals on topics tangential to real technology (for example, in the 1980s the USAF stealth program was compromised by UFO researchers).
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