.ترجم للغة العربية ترجمة ديناميكية Ever since Bedell Smith had taken office in 1950, he’d expressed frustration over how little
information the CIA was able to get on UFO reports inside Russia. Joseph Stalin, it appeared, kept all
information about UFOs out of the press. Between 1947 and 1952, CIA analysts monitoring the Soviet
press found only one single mention of UFOs, in an editorial column that briefly referred to UFOs in the
United States. So how did Riedel’s group know more about Soviet UFO reports than the CIA knew?
Sufficiently concerned, the CIA instructed Riedel’s Paperclip handlers to get him in line. His handler
“suggested politely and perhaps indirectly to Dr. Riedel that he disassociate himself from official
membership on CSI.” But the obstinate scientist refused to cease and desist. What the consequences
were for Riedel remains unclear. Whether or not Riedel and his fellow ufologist pulled off their hoax
and how he and his colleagues were able to so freely gather information about Soviet UFOs and Soviet
rockets behind the Iron Curtain is secreted away in Riedel’s Project Paperclip file, most of which
remains classified, even after more than fifty years.
By 1957, according to the CIA monograph “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs,” the U-2s accounted for
more than half of all UFO sightings reported in the continental United States. Odarenko had been
unsuccessful in his bid to be “relieved” of his UFO responsibilities and instead got to work creating CIA
policy regarding UFOs. He sent a secret memo to the director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence
outlining how he believed the Agency should handle reports of UFOs:
Keep current files on UFOs: “maintain current knowledge of sightings of unidentified flying objects.”
Deny that the CIA kept current files about UFOs by stating that “the project [was] inactive.”
Divide the explainable UFOs, meaning the U-2 flights, from the inexplicable UFOs: “segregate
references to recognizable and explainable phenomena from those which come under the definition of
‘unidentified flying objects.’”
The Agency’s concerted effort to conceal from Congress and the public its interest in UFOs would, in
coming decades, open up a Pandora’s box and cause credibility issues for the CIA. “The concealment of
CIA interest [in UFOs] contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up,” wrote
Gerald K. Haines, the historian for the National Reconnaissance Office and someone who is often
introduced as the CIA’s expert on the matter. But to get the UFO monkey off his back, Allen Dulles
began a “psychological warfare” campaign of his own. When letters came in from concerned citizens
about the sightings, the CIA’s policy was to ignore them. When letters came in from UFO groups, the
CIA’s policy was to monitor the individuals in the group. When letters came in from congressmen or
senators, such as the one from Ohio congressman Gordon Scherer in September of 1955, the CIA’s policy
was to have Director Dulles write a polite note explaining that UFOs were a law enforcement problem
and the CIA was specifically barred from enforcing the law. The notes certainly portray Allen Dulles as
an arrogant public servant, but they are prized by UFO collectors, who say they prove the CIA’s sinister
coverup of extraterrestrial UFOs. Regardless of alleged CIA policy, the public’s fascination with UFOs
proved more formidable than the CIA had ever bargained for; average citizens simply could not get
enough information about mysterious objects streaking across the skies. And the more information they
were given, the more they wanted to know and the more questions they asked. It didn’t take long for
the public to become convinced that the CIA was covering something up, which, of course, it was..ترجم للغة العربية ترجمة ديناميكية