Sources: CIA Knew Passenger Planes Were About to be Used As Missiles

Two independent sources, one here in the United States, another in the United Kingdom, have provided new information that converges days before 9/11.

A third possible connection, previously revealed by Jon Ronson, further adds to the latest revelations: Special Forces appear to have been actively involved in the use of paranormal phenomena, as portrayed in The Men Who Stare At Goats.

Keeping in mind the two-source rule of journalism, I need to point out that what follows are from two independent unconfirmed accounts provided to me.

It is also important to report that my email archive from 2001 is inexplicably missing the months of September and October of 2001.

The first source, a psychic with a history of providing warnings of terrorist events before they take place, confirmed to me he provided the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Special Operations Intelligence Officer at the U.S. Embassy a warning that terrorists were about to use passenger planes as "cruise missiles" -- something his previous handlers at MI5 (the British Security Service) could not accept.

According to my source, visions of the use of passenger planes as weapons of mass destruction began in 1999.

According to a CBS News story that investigated what was known about the use of airplanes as missiles:

Two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, an analysis prepared for U.S. intelligence warned that Osama bin Laden's terrorists could hijack an airliner and fly it into government buildings like the Pentagon.

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said.

The report was written under the watch of John Gannon, an associate of Dr. Kit Green, one of the original CIA handlers for the intelligence agency's psychic spy research program in the 1970s.

Former CIA Deputy Director John Gannon, who was chairman of the National Intelligence Council when the report was written, said officials long have known a suicide hijacking was a threat.

"If you ask anybody could terrorists convert a plane into a missile, nobody would have ruled that out," he said.

This latest revelation adds further weight to the argument that CIA was aware of the threat.

By early 2001, my source had become disillusioned at home; then, setting eyes on the United States, decided to offer precognitive services to U.S. officials.

The visions of the attacks became more detailed as the actual event neared. By May it was apparent that the planes would crash into a major city. During a trip to the United States, which included a series of experiments at an American University, my source "witnessed" the planes hitting the Twin Towers.

An American Intelligence person and police were alerted to the dream events by a Professor involved in the experiment.

My source returned to England and, as the dreams continued, decided to mail a prepared document to the U.S Embassy, only days before 9/11.

We now turn our attention back to the United States, where source # 2, Dan T. Smith, who was unaware of the above, provided his own account of the last few days leading up to the events of 9/11.

According to Mr. Smith, his friend Ron Pandolfi, then with the CIA, appeared to have prior knowledge of what was about to happen on September 11th.

When I pressed Smith for more information, he said that Pandolfi had been "harassed by FBI and DIA" over Smith's posting this on the Internet.

Intrigued, I wanted to know what had happened to give Smith this impression.

On or about Sunday, September 9, 2001, Smith claims Pandolfi called him on the phone to come over to his house for an urgent meeting. Upon arriving, Smith was told that Pandolfi was going to "reactivate" the "Aquarium."

Among those in attendance: a shaman from South America, and several persons "into psychic stuff."

According to Smith, this "Aquarium" group had more or less been defunct for a while, prior to these events. I'll return to the topic and function of the Aquarium group later.

Continuing with his best recollection of the events, Smith attaches special significance to the 9/11 attacks because of a series of curious coincidences.

On the morning of 9/11, Smith was listening to music on the radio, when it was announced something had happened in New York City. He turned on the TV just in time to witness the second plane strike the South Tower.

Dan's sister in Montana had called, looking for his other sister, who had boarded a plane at Logan International Airport, about the same time as the hijackers. Phone lines were jammed, leaving Smith unable to reach his sister, or his friend Ron from the CIA.

All commercial traffic was grounded, including his sister's flight out of Logan. Later Smith learned that his sister had spoken to her friend, former President George H.W. Bush, who was also in the air when the planes hit the towers.

All of this climaxed when Ron Pandolfi called from a secure location, shortly after a third plane had struck the Pentagon.

Smith says Pandolfi called for another urgent meeting of the Aquarium, which was held in front of the tiger cage at the National Zoo. Topics discussed at these meetings, which included a new presence -- a "special forces" bodyguard -- were not disclosed.

A few days later, Smith discussed all the above with a female Special Agent in front of the FBI offices in Baltimore.

A few weeks after the "reactivation" of the Aquarium group, British author Jon Ronson sat down with psychic-superstar Uri Geller in London.

Geller, who had been the subject of CIA's original psychic spy operations in the 1970s, was reluctant to discuss his CIA work with Ronson.

According to Ronson's book, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Geller then admitted, "I have been reactivated" by someone named "Ron."

Ronson cites the meeting with Geller as the beginning of the search that led him to Special Forces and psychic goat killers.

Intrigued by the above, I decided to look into the email archive to see what, if any, corroborating evidence I could find.

Dismayed to learn that the time frame of interest was missing, I discovered the earliest mention of Ron Pandolfi appeared in 1999, during the height of former US Web CEO Joe Firmage's quest to reverse engineer extraterrestrial technology even as he promoted the Majestic MJ-12 TOP SECRET / MAJIC UFO documents.

In September of 2000, Dan Smith made several statements to an alternative science email discussion group, implying his friend Ron from the CIA had an active interest.

Smith, who is convinced of the eschatological dimensions of paranormal phenomena -- an implied end-of-the -world scenario -- wrote to a long list of email recipients, including Firmage, the above mentioned American Professor, and Uri Geller:

... it appears that Ron wants me to be a bus driver. He wants me to obtain a bus and paint it to look like an 'official' MTA bus, and go around the city picking up passengers at the bus stops, but instead of delivering them to their usual destinations, I will take them on an eschatological tour.

When I told Ron that this might be construed as being illegal, he did not seem perturbed.

Would I lie to you? Do you think for a minute that these were not my 'official' instructions from a person who seems no longer inclined to deny membership in 'MTA-12'?

Smith apparently struck a nerve, somewhere, as the elusive and mysterious "Ron" was inspired to respond to the above email "passengers," tongue firmly in cheek:

Is it a ferret or a weasel that Dan will be adopting for the avian birthday?

(An allusion to the UFO Aviary of former intelligence persons involved with UFOs and the paranormal.)

I am ready to purchase a bus ticket for Dan's eschatological tour, as long as I get to select at least one of the stops. Who else will join the adventure? Where will it end?

As you might imagine, more than a few skeptics were on the receiving end of the above, leaving Smith with no other option than to provide more information about his relationship with Pandolfi, and his claim that "Ron" was the government's chief weird phenomena point man.

In September of 2000, Smith revealed something Jon Ronson would only learn several years later:

I spent last Saturday being confronted with the fact that the point person for phenomenology is also a point person with respect to our special forces.

It is very difficult for me to imagine that this is just a coincidence. And it came as no great surprise to me in the light of my lengthy assimilation into these 'nether' regions ... If the Aquarium plan does move forward, there will be a continuing need for Special Forces.

Jon Ronson tells the story of a mysterious caller, who alerted him to a new kind of soldier.

"Psychic assassins," he announced. "Cool, eh? They're teaching the Special Ops assassins, the Fort Bragg guys who go out in the field to track down and assassinate terrorists, how to be psychic."