In 1972, the US NAVY submersible Trieste II recovered a valuable object from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Based upon his research into the Glomar Explorer recovery operation and the mystery of the sinking of Soviet submarine K-129, author Ken Sewell concluded that the Trieste II had recovered an object, perhaps even a Russian nuclear weapon, two years before the CIA arrived on the scene with their massive ocean-going platform.
The heart of the mystery is what actually caused the sinking of the Soviet Golf-class K-129 submarine in March of 1968.
Here we will connect one mystery with another, and then another: we begin with Ingo Swann, the psychic spy with a US government security clearance.
Swann had been recruited -- initially without his knowledge -- into a CIA ESP research operation at the Stanford Research Institute. About the same time Swann was an unwitting CIA lab rat, the US NAVY was meeting with Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms about another crazy scheme: how to raise an entire Soviet submarine from the depths more than 16,000 feet below.
Adding another twist to the tale, one CIA-man assigned to the Stanford Research Institute project (which later would be associated with the Defense Intelligence Agency effort nick-named STAR GATE) was Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green, then with CIA's LSD division.
Although it is true that a certain Dr. Sidney Gottlieb of the CIA's Technical Services Division had been behind the testing of the hallucinogenic drug LSD on unwitting victims as part of the notorious MKULTRA project -- and it was also true in fact that Gottlieb had personally been involved in the initial funding of the Stanford Research Institute psychic effort in 1972 -- the LSD associated with Dr. Green is the Life Sciences Division.
As I have Dr. Green's CV in hand, a quick check reveals the following:
"Dr. Green was an analyst with the Life Sciences Division, Chief of the Biomedical Sciences Branch / LSD, and Deputy Division Chief."
Green's interests were not confined to the lab:
"He served as Chairman of the Ad Hoc Interagency Working Group on Soviet Submarine Drag Reduction Research and Development. Other interests in naval subjects have included his work on the Glomar Explorer project, diving physiology and submarine life support system. He also served as the Senior Medical Intelligence Officer on collection programs involving naval and undersea platforms."
Green's CV also notes that he directed "the medical collection portion of a large national undersea research program" from 1974 to 1977 and that he had served as "Life Science space reconnaissance officer to the national space tasking effort" from 1969 to 1979. Green was involved in the "design and promotion of inter-agency marine biological R&D effort including extensive coordination with the Under-Secretary of the Navy for Research and ultimate direction of a joint extramural research effort" during 1974 to 1976.
This places Dr. Green at the center of the junction of two mysteries: the naval recovery of a Soviet wreck from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and the weirdness of psychic research focused on Ingo Swann.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: Kit Green is the man behind the original tale of the "core story" of an extraterrestrial visitation.
For the third clue we need to go OUT THERE, thanks to former New York Times' journalist Howard Blum and his attempt to crack the secrecy twenty years ago.
During the peak years of STAR GATE -- the mid-1980s, a time when some elements within the American intelligence community took the prospect of psychic warfare quite seriously -- Ingo Swann had been training military "remote viewers," to prepare them for ethereal encounters against the enemy.
One of the 'problems of interest' to the psychic spy operations was the use of psychic remote viewing to track Soviet submarines.
Blum writes about a test demonstration conducted at the Old Executive Office Building directly across from the White House:
"At the start, the photograph of this Soviet Delta-class submarine seemed to present little challenge to the viewer. He went into his head-bobbing routine and, as usual, started to call out a set of coordinates. Then he stumbled; his face suddenly became twisted with the surprised look of someone who had just encountered a small, but unexpected trouble in his path ... The viewer, now a little embarrassed, explained that he had seen something else while he was searching for the last boat. The coordinates were the same, only it was ... hovering above the submarine ... So the scientist, willing to let the experiment follow its own momentum, asked the viewer to draw ... what he had seen ... The scientist returned to study the drawing ... 'you're not going to tell me it's a flying saucer?' 'Yes,' said the viewer, 'That's it exactly.'"
According to the account of the US NAVY covert 1972 Trieste II dive ( presumably to the site of the Russian submarine wreckage): something was recovered, concealed from the crew, and quickly placed in a cold food storage locker under armed guard.
One might reasonably speculate whether or not the item of interest actually required cold storage to preserve it from decay -- as would a biological organism -- or whether the storage locker was merely a convenient location for the long trip home.
All of this fodder for the conspiratorial mind comes together in an odd experience told by Dan T. Smith, a friend of CIA's Ron Pandolfi, who has been rumored to be the custodian of CIA's weird desk files, following Dr. Green's departure from the agency in the mid-1980s.
(It is also worth noting this same "team of three" consisting of Green, Pandolfi, and Smith, were discussing a strategy to move forward with government disclosure of the alleged extraterrestrial problem.)
Smith has confirmed that his friend Pandolfi has failed to penetrate "real-life X-files" held by the US NAVY, presumably under the watch of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).
Smith has gone public concerning a personal encounter of the odd kind: he was exposed to a creature, dangling from the ceiling in a body bag, during a brief stint at a hospital.
Was this the smoking gun: an alien cadaver recovered from the depths of the ocean, the result of an unfortunate incident between an extraterrestrial probe and a Soviet submarine in the 1960s?
In part three we will consider the crazy spin zone where all of the above come together and ask why the NAVY strange phenomena unit and psychic spy program remains inaccessible.
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