**“Government Agent Baiting” serves the interests of those that are trying to keep a lid on the UFO situation.**
Joseph Burkes MD 2020, edited 2024
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On another social media page, I posted a blog critical of Richard Dolan’s support for the alien abduction theorist Dr. David Jacobs. **One commenter made the nasty remark that Mr. Dolan was a “government agent**.” Here is my reply to him in an edited form.
“I grew up during the Cold War. If a right-wing politician wanted to silence a critic, he often engaged in red baiting by accusing his opponent of being a communist or being “soft on communism.” In the flying saucer subculture, unfortunately too many people express their negative emotions towards others by “government agent” baiting them. This is a rather thoughtless, insensitive, and frankly adolescent behavior that should be widely condemned.
In my judgment, **a vigorous US counterintelligence operation has existed, aimed not only at the non-human agents responsible for flying saucers, but also has targeted selected elements of the UFO subculture.** In my opinion, these efforts are ongoing because flying saucers threaten all terrestrial elites, but not the Earth’s peoples. In service to corporate/oligarchic elites, the US Executive Branch of government, the mass media and academia have all been involved in allied programs **to maintain what is a de facto policy of ridicule and denial.** This has started to change since the publication of the major media news articles about the US government’s secret flying saucer investigations in the fall of 2017.
This said, to hurl unfounded accusations at prominent members of the UFO community that they are “government agents” is not only disrespectful, but in a more practical sense is providing a service for those forces attempting to keep a lid on the situation. Disclosure and contact activists should understand that if we are fighting among ourselves, clandestine cells of intelligence operatives working for what sometimes are called the “control groups” will be better able to manipulate and marginalize the UFO community. This is serious business because historically such operatives have conducted not only surveillance of witnesses but have also misled investigators and even in the past have infiltrated UFO organizations disrupting their attempts to end what has been aptly labeled the “UFO truth embargo.”
**We can have differences of opinion on a wide range of topics without stooping to government agent baiting.** Dr. Jacobs is a historian and not a mental health specialist. I happen to disagree strongly with the methods that Dr. Jacobs uses to create what I believe are false memories in people that he labels victims of “alien abductions.” In my opinion, research of this kind helps poison the mass consciousness with lurid tales of abuse. Dr. Jacob’s work with contact experiencers is a poor substitute for professional counselling services that might help troubled individuals deal with not only issues around contact, but other life stresses as well. That said, I would never accuse Dr. Jacobs of being a “government agent” no matter how opposed I am to his work in this field.
We can disagree strongly with one another without using those differences of opinion to ventilate negative emotion. I urge UFO fans to discuss alien abduction theories and other controversial issues in the UFO field in a respectful manner.”
Although these are general guidelines, contact and disclosure activists should be aware of the existence of what has been called a **“gradual acclimatization program” by the US Executive Branch of government.** It is a policy that involves US intelligence officers interacting with the civilian UFO research community. This effort is well delineated in **Grant Cameron’s important 2017 book “Managing Magic.”** The program is likely run out of White House using the CIA, DIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence. It involves the recruitment of prominent individuals in the UFO subculture who are fed a combination of accurate information combined with some disinformation. The material is then released to the public in such a way, according to Grant Cameron, as to “hide the government’s fingerprints.” All the while the larger society is gradually becoming aware of the importance of UFOs.
Thus, we have in the 1980s, co-author of the “Roswell Incident”, **Bill Moore** working with a team of researchers on the infamous “MJ-12 papers.” Those documents described a group of government officials whose responsibilities included investigating crashed saucers. In the 1990s, **CSETI Director Steven Greer** worked with both the CIA and Naval Intelligence to bring important witnesses forward in the Disclosure Project. And starting in 2015, rock star **Tom Delonge** served a similar disclosure function in collaboration with important members of the military industrial intelligence complex.
These three prominent individuals, Moore, Greer, and Tom Delonge, partly because of their strong sense of mission, have been called disclosure “Messiahs” by Cameron. In my opinion, they should not be considered “agents” in the classic espionage sense because their relationships are more collaborative than recruited intelligence “assets” who often are under the direct control of professional intelligence officers. Although the “Messiahs’” relationships with the intelligence services makes them subject to manipulation, I believe they all maintained considerable independence of action.
In my judgment, **the gradual acclimatization program is not a prelude to a full disclosure of United States government’s massive programs addressing the challenge of flying saucers.** The release of videos by the US Navy and more openness in the media on this topic are a confirmation of the reality of the phenomenon, simply that and little more. A full disclosure, in my opinion, would be terribly disrupting to the belief systems of mankind. Full disclosure could have destabilizing effects on our planet’s economic and political systems as well. The so-called aliens appear to be not only totally telepathic, but in my opinion, have complete access to any targeted human’s full treasure chest of memories.
This capability, in combination with what **Dr. Jacques Vallee calls their ability “to manipulate spacetime”, makes them a mysterious force that cannot be controlled by terrestrial authorities. Therefore, executive branches of the world’s governments** **approach this topic as a counterintelligence matter. This is because the rationale of military intelligence industrial complex is to counter all potential military threats.** And from their perspective what are now called “UAP” fall into this potential threat category.
Given the new openness on this topic and the complexity of the current situation as briefly outlined above, labelling prominent activists in the contact/disclosure struggle as “government agents” is simplistic, counterproductive and should stop.
For disclosure and contact activists to have maximal impact on the growing societal conversation on what are now called UAP, we need to work together in principled ways. A fair discussion of differences of opinion should always be done in a respectful manner with the understanding that no one has completely deciphered the many great mysteries associated with flying saucer phenomena. To identify with a point of view, as if it were central to one’s sense of self, is an example of what has been called egocentric thinking. A path of non-attachment is in my opinion a more enlightened way of working on this controversial topic. “Government agent baiting” should be avoided and those exhibiting this behavior should be asked to consider the points made in this blog.
**Additional Power Structure Analysis Blogs are linked below.**
**If flying saucer intelligences threaten all terrestrial elites, but not necessarily the Earth’s people, then it is understandable that governmental response to UFOs is a counterintelligence one.**
[https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/dueling-paradigms-perhaps-a-counterintelligence-model-is-better-than-a-scientific-one-to-study-ufos/](https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/dueling-paradigms-perhaps-a-counterintelligence-model-is-better-than-a-scientific-one-to-study-ufos/)
**The Leadership Crisis in ufology. In the UFO subculture there are few leaders, mostly celebrities**.
[https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/the-leadership-crisis-in-ufology/](https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/the-leadership-crisis-in-ufology/)
**What will it take to convince people that UFOs are importan**t?
[https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/13/what-will-it-take-to-convince-people-that-ufos-are-important/](https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/13/what-will-it-take-to-convince-people-that-ufos-are-important/)
**“Science, Counterintelligence & UFOs”**
**Researcher Val Germann wrote this important multi-part article in 1997. He has given me permission to repost his work on my blog site.**
[**https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/09/04/science-counterintelligence-and-ufos/**](https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/09/04/science-counterintelligence-and-ufos/)
by Contactunderground