Regarding these highly classified projects that
you speak of involving U.S. Corporations:
according to your research, were these
corporations involved in "defensive" measures
against the so-called "alien threat", backward
engineering of captured or shared alien
technologies, or all of the above and more?
What can you tell us?
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MAYNARD: The Department of Defense has had an
ongoing program since the mid-1950's, which
provided contracts to U.S. Civilian
Contractors/Organizations/Corporations that
worked in the intelligence community. These
projects came under very tight security and
usually were very highly compartmentalized.
What this means is that you have several
concentric circles: the closer you are to the
inner circle the more information you could
find on the project. The further you get away
from this inner circle, the less information is
available. All this is established on a very
strict need-to-know basis. Within these circles
you could, if you looked hard enough, find
contractors that worked on various parts of the
project but really had no idea what the overall
project was. This also happened with the
military's interaction with the primary
contractor. Also in this respect, each military
branch had certain projects that came under the
compartmentalization security measures.
What is meant by this compartmentalization is
simply the classification of a document or
project, whether it is classified as
Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret. However,
when they are named, such as; UMBRA (UM),
MAJESTIC (MJ), OMNI (OM), or TALENT KEYHOLE
(TK), the compartmented program becomes an
entity unto itself. The projects and the circle
of knowledge draw very tight toward the center
and access is granted or denied from within
that circle.
Therefore, you can literally talk with a top
official in the Pentagon, but unless he has the
authorization for that particular project, he
probably does not know that it exists. If he
does know it exists, he knows nothing about it.
Knowing the simple rules of classification
helps in identifying the right person to talk
with.
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God bless America and 'the powers that be'.