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- STANTON T. FRIEDMAN
- NUCLEAR PHYSICIST-LECTURER
-
- 79 PEMBROKE CRESCENT
- FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK E3B2V1
- CANADA
- (506)457-0232
-
- May 16, 1987
- To: File
- Subject: Additional comments re documents released by William L. Moore in
- April 30, 1987 FOCUS. Special Focus on MJ-12.
-
- The members of the MJ-12 Group were truly outstanding Americans all of whom
- had made major contributions during World War 2. I have a mountain of data
- that links the various people all of whom have since died.
-
- The one surprising name on the list was that of Harvard Astronomer Donald H.
- Menzel. I had picked up on all the others in the course of reviewing many
- files at the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the Truman,
- Eisenhower, and Kennedy Libraries. DHM had written three anti-UFO books and
- made numerous negative comments about the reality of UFOs. How could he
- possibly have been a member of a top notch group(knowing full well in July
- of 1947(after the crash and retrieval near Roswell NM of an Identified
- Alien Craft)of the alien origin of some UFOs?? I was stimulated by the
- follow-up on him by a brief letter in Bush's files from the attorney who had
- defended DHM in a USAF loyalty hearing in 1950. There was nothing about
- this hearing or Menzel's clearing of any communist learnings in the NY Times
- which piqued my curiosity. I eventually gained access to Menzel's file at
- the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia (only
- contains his very extensive UFO correspondence), the Menzel Files at his
- Alma Mater (University of Denver) and most important after getting
- permission from two professors and his wife Florence, the all important
- Menzel files at Harvard. There was a great deal of evidence strongly
- suggesting that Menzel may indeed have been part of MJ-12. In a 1960
- letter to President elect John F. Kennedy, DHM stated that he had had a
- longer continuous association with the highly classified National Security
- Agency and its Navy predecessor agency than any other person (recent
- documents prove that the NSA has but refuses to release even to a Federal
- court Judge any of the more than 150 UFO documents it admits to having).
- DHM also noted that he had done classified work for more than 30 Defense
- Industry contractors, that he had a TOP SECRET ULTRA security clearance
- which made it all the harder for him to understand the USAF fussing about
- a SECRET clearance. His staunchest defender at the extended security
- hearings was Van Bush whom he had known since 1934!! DHM served the Navy
- on code breaking work during WW2, taught course on cryptography, had
- written a classified book on radio wave propagation, and had also written
- many science fiction stories as well as articles for a number of major
- newspapers. He was very heavily engineering oriented besides being an
- astronomer. Post war he served as the first commanding officer of a Navy
- Reserve cryptography unit.He was very well acquainted with Lloyd Berkner and
- Detlev Bronk. Hunsaker was at nearby MIT.
-
- At Harvard most of his associates new little about his government work. His
- wartime secretary stressed to me as did some others that he was very
- discreet. He made very frequent trips to Washington DC, and also a myriad to
- New Mexico where the crashed saucer had been retrieved. Menzel was aware of
- the wartime breaking of the German Enigma code and of various disinformation
- schemes to fool the Germans and Japanese and had even learned Japanese to
- help in deciphering. He would have been an obvious choice to help decipher
- the strange symbols found on some of the Roswell wreckage and to help
- disinform the public about this very important subject. His UFO books
- certainly show a great deal of nonscientific reasoning out of keeping with
- his scientific work. His first UFO book was even translated into Russian and
- helped keep a whole generation of US and Soviet scientists from studying the
- UFO phenomenon. He may very well have achieved one of the greatest feats of
- disinformation ever accomplished.
-
- I have clear proof from the files of both Bush (library of Congress) and
- Forrestal (at the Forrestal Library at Princeton University where I have
- reviewed them) that they had indeed met with President Truman on September
- 24, 1947 and they had a long close and mutually admiring relationship with
- each other and with Truman, frequently (in the 1947-49 period) meeting for
- lunch and often meeting with Truman. It is interesting that Hillenkoetter
- and Souers had strong Navy ties, Twining and Bandenberg, strong Air Force
- ties, and Gray and Montague strong Army connections. All were at the top of
- the Intelligence Community. Bronkl besides being an Aviation physiologist
- later headed the National Academy of Sciences. Hunsaker, one of the real
- aviation pioneers headed the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
- succeeding Bush in the late 1930s. Bush was, of course, the US Science and
- Technology Czar during and after World War 2. No one in the world was better
- suited to heading a small group of experts trying to determine the technology
- associated with alien craft. The following statement appears in a formerly
- Top-Secret Canadian memo dated November 21, 1950. Speaking about flying
- saucers Wilber Smith "made discrete enquiries through the Canadian Embassy
- staff in Washington who were able to obtain for me the following information:
- a. The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States
- Government , rating higher even than the H-bomb. b. Flying saucers exist. c.
- Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being mad by a
- small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush. d. The entire matter is considered
- by the United States Authorities to be of tremendous significance."
-
- There is truly a mountain of evidence including more than 5000 pages of
- documents released under the Freedom of Information and the Canadian Access
- to Information to establish that indeed the subject of UFOs represents a kind
- of Cosmic Watergate. While I don't want all the technical data released , I
- do believe that Earthlings are indeed entitled to know that we are not alone.
- Havening worked on classified government sponsored Research and Development
- programs for 15 years, I have a healthy respect for security and the ability
- of various government agencies to keep things secret.