Following Valerie Plame's "retirement" from the CIA, "Ron" might just be the most famous spook on the Internet (but if you know of any others working the web, please let us know!).It appears that the Information Age is a double edged sword, especially for those with careers in the Intelligence Community.Ron has been floating upon the unidentified seas of conspiracy for a while. His name is often mentioned by the "usual suspects" working UFO cases.In the early 1990s, a British researcher managed to record a telephone conversation with Ron about government interest in flying saucers and extraterrestrial beings: the "UFO Working Group" made famous by believers of former New York Times journalist Howard Blum's book Out There.British author and humorist Jon Ronson even went on a search for Ron based upon a clue provided by world-famous psychic Uri Geller, as told in his book, The Men Who Stare at Goats.One source, a civilian who knows Ron, informed us that the former CIA analyst, who was "outed" in several articles, including a series by the New York Times in the 1990s, had moved on to work under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.It appears that Ron's "official work" for the United States Government may in fact be related to UFOs.The most general definition of UFO -- Unidentified Flying Object -- does have serious national security significance. Consider the problem faced by anyone who has been on the receiving end of an attack by a stealth fighter, for example. When conventional radar fails, alternative methods are manditory, such as passive radar systems, where there may be "Capabilities against stealth aircraft due to the frequency bands and multistatic geometries employed."Ron, according to a document issued by the MITRE Corporation, was providing support to the National Intelligence Council (NIC).The public version of the NIC website states:The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL (NIC) is the Intelligence Community's (IC's) center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking. Its primary functions are to: * Support the DNI in his role as head of the Intelligence Community. * Provide a focal point for policymakers to task the Intelligence Community to answer their questions. * Reach out to nongovernment experts in academia and the private sector to broaden the Intelligence Community's perspective. * Contribute to the Intelligence Community's effort to allocate its resources in response to policymakers' changing needs. * Lead the Intelligence Community's effort to produce National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) and other NIC products. NIEs are the DNI's most authoritative written judgments concerning national security issues. They contain the coordinated judgments of the Intelligence Community regarding the likely course of future events. The NIC's goal is to provide policymakers with the best, unvarnished, and unbiased information-regardless of whether analytic judgments conform to US policy. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS' (NIOS) PRIMARY FUNCTIONS ARE TO: * Advise the DNI. * Interact regularly with senior intelligence consumers and support their current and longer-term needs. * Produce top-quality estimative intelligence in a process that is efficient and responsive. * Engage with outside experts to tap their knowledge and insights. * Help assess the capabilities and needs of IC analytic producers. * Promote collaboration among IC analytic producers on strategic warning, advanced analytic tools, and methodologies. * Articulate substantive priorities to guide intelligence collection, evaluation, and procurement.It would appear that Ron's civilian source was correct. His mission, according to the MITRE document, involves the detection of UFOs (according to an email we received, said to have been sourced from Ron, he is developing new methods involving P.C. based technology) and reporting to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence via the National Intelligence Council.Now, as for Ron's interest in alternative UFO physics propulsion claims... including persons identified with RAM -- aka Replicate Alien Machine? And why did another government source go silent following the revelation of Ron's UFO working group audio recording?For additional background, I suggest investigative author Gus Russo's article:The REAL X-Files: Is Uncle Sam a Closet UFOlogistYou might also wish to take note of another interesting relationship:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/018/048To be continued... here.
