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Indian Cosmology Revisited in the Light of Current Facts
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public records. It has been established by his biographers that the ex-Secretary of Defense was
under heavy stress on 28th March 1949, when President Truman made him tender his resignation, at
which time the Secretary of the Air Force, Stuart Symington told him in confidence something
which seems to have pushed him “off the edge”. The very next day Forrestal was flown to the house
of future Defense Secretary Robert Lovett in Florida under military supervision, placed under the
care of a Navy psychiatrist who heavily medicated him, and then checked into Bethesda on April
2
nd
as an in-patient; his journal was removed to the White House on Truman’s order.
Richard Dolan, in his detailed chapter on Forrestal’s death included in his book “UFOs and the
National Security State – Part I”, notes that very few people were allowed to meet with him (his
brother Henry had to ask many times before being allowed to visit) and that even his own religious
confessors were inexplicably kept away by the Navy minders who supervised his care (Forrestal
was a practicing Roman Catholic). On the other hand, Truman, his successor at the Department of
Defense, Louis Johnson, his old foe Stuart Symington and a few other high government officials
called on him though he had not requested to see them. Truman was demonstrably worried about
any undiscovered papers or recordings that might have been kept by his former cabinet member and
in August of 1949, Louis Johnson sent him a confidential memo to reassure him that no voice
recordings or any other documents concerning Truman’s conversation with Forrestal remained.
Effectively, Forrestal had become a prisoner of the US Navy. It appears that the government’s
concern was to prevent disclosures by the former cabinet member who ended his own life (or was
made to) on May 22, 1949, in the night before his brother was to take him home following his
apparent recovery.
Incidentally one of Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington’s cousins is no other than Fife Symington
who, while Governor of Arizona, on March 13
th
1997 was one of the thousands of baffled witnesses
to the spectacular “Phoenix Lights”, described as the passage of a silent 2000 to 3000 feet wide
delta-shaped matte black craft sporting a row of dazzling headlights, over the city. After attempting
to ridicule the sighting at a press conference by getting one of his staff to wear an “Alien grey”
mask, Symington years later, when out of office apologized and readily acknowledged on camera at
the Washington DC National Press Club that what he had seen was indeed “some form of an alien
spacecraft”. The “ET factor” does seem to run across generations for some families.
Exopolitics Journal
3:4 (June, 2011). ISSN 1938-1719
www.exopoliticsjournal.com
Come Carpentier de Gourdon,
“
Indian Cosmology Revisited in the Light of Current Facts
”
289
There are of course many matters on which Forrestal must have had very privileged information
that might have caused distress to Truman if he had spoken out, but an intriguing clue was provided
by General Arthur Exon, the former commanding officer of the Wright Patterson Air Base (the site
of Air Materiel Command) in 1990 when he stated that Stuart Symington had been a member of
“Unholy 13” who controlled policy on UFO-related matters in the Government. That group is
almost certainly the “above top secret” MJ-12 or Majestic Committee, reportedly appointed by
Truman and Forrestal to manage the alien situation, on which Forrestal sat.
An exhaustive collection of the solid and
confirmed reports of Alien sightings and
encounters compiled since 1947 to this day would
fill many books (which have already been written)
and so we can only briefly mention a few of the
most unquestionable records. It is important to
point out, as we noted earlier, that since the second
half of World War, the US had embarked not only
on
the
top-secret,
exorbitantly
expensive
Manhattan Project (the Oak Ridge Laboratory
alone consumed one sixth of all the electrical
power produced in the country during the War years) but also on an elaborate programme to gain
possession of all the advanced research and technology to be found in the Third Reich, through the
JIOA (Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency). Hundreds of “Nazi” scientists and engineers were
identified and singled out for transfer to the USA in the belief that they could make an invaluable
contribution to the American war machine as well as to its civilian economy.
No less than 86 aeronautical engineers and 127 rocket scientists, among them von Braun, and his
boss Dornberger, were targeted by
Operation Lusty (Luftwaffe Secret Technology) out of a total of
some 1600 men. From 1945 on, most were brought to the USA after being secretly detained, often
in violation of the Geneva convention since the Red Cross was kept in the dark about their
locations. Furthermore, in order to circumvent a US legislation prohibiting asylum to those