. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 5 that in his post-Navy career he "worked in the private sector research and development community involved in the U.S. Government sponsored projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA], and U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command" (INSCOM). In 1985 Scott came in from the cold in a big way. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the most senior politicians on Capitol Hill, appointed him to a position as Special Assistant. From this very prestigious vantage Scott continued to do exactly what he had been doing before, which is to say making the rounds of ufological and parapsychological meetings. He was always available, either at the Senate office he used in Washington thanks to the Senator's largesse, or on the road. It is not clear whether Jones ever did ordinary "aide" work. Rather, it seems that he devoted himself entirely to the field of paranormal inquiry. It is quite an exceptional situation that dones found, and one that most of us in anomalies research would envy. The taxpayers of Rhode Island seem not to have noticed, and the December 5, 1988 issue of U.S. News & World Report, which devoted a great deal of space to New Age belief in the Halls of Congress, mentioned Peil and his protege Jones, but failed to note that Jones was on the government payroll primarily as a psychic/UFO facilitator. In March of 1991 there came a parting of the ways, and Scott left the employ of Senator Pelli, but not the field of the paranormal. He is now at his new organization, the Human Potential Foundation.” With his assistant Menelika McCarthy, Scott continues to do that which he has done so well for the last decade. His foundation is ensconced in the resplendent offices of Sandground Barondess and West, P.C., at what is perhaps the most prestigious address in an area of fine office buildings on the Washington beltway. Mark Sandground and Claiborne Pell serve on the board of the foundation, which is reportedly funded by Laurance Rockefeller. ORGANIZATIONS Among the organizations with which Scott has been affiliated at one time or another, and of which there is some kind of public record, are these: Center for Applied Anomalous Phenomena. 6435 Shady Lane, Falls Church, VA 22042-2335. Telephone: (703) 534-2423. Scott Jones, Founder. Jones states that his work is supported by the Center. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 6 Human Potential Foundation. 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 600., Vienna, VA 22182. Telephone: (703) 761-4281; fax: (703) 761-4249. Scott Jones, President. Established in 1989. Support comes from Claiborne Pell and Laurance Rockefeller. American Society for Psychical Research. 5 West 73rd Street, New York, NY 10023. Telephone: (212) 799-5050. Jones has been on the Board of Trustees since 1985; he now serves as President. Parapsychological Association. P.O. Box 12236, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Telephone: (919) 688-8241. This is the professional association of parapsychologists. Jones has been an Associate Member since 1984. Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, TX 78155-4099. Telephone: (512) 379-9216. Jones was appointed Consultant in International Relations in 1989. Mid-Point. P.O. Box 246, 128 Main Street, S50-, Bridgewater, CT 06752. Telephone: (203) 354-5948. This is a small organization wHose purpose is to do research with dolphins and apply the findings to other areas of endeavor. Jones serves on the Board of Advisors. R. F. Cross Associates, Lid. Alexandria, VA. [Directory assistance now has no listing for that organization]. Jones served as research director. Kaman Tempo- 2560 Huntington Avenue, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA 22303. [Directory assistance now has no listing for this organization, but lists a Kaman Sciences company in Alexandria, VA.]}. Jones served as a research scientist. Atlantic University. 67th Street and Atlantic avenue, P.O. Box 595, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Telephone: (804) 428-3588. This unaccredited university is affiliated with the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Jones serves on the Board of Directors. Quest Institute. P.O. Box 3265, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Telephone: (804) 295-3377. This institute sponsors educational programs in New Age areas. Jones serves on the Board of Directors. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 7 TRAVELS Few scientists or academicians have the ability to travel the way Scott does. There is literally no significant conference in ufology or parapsychology in any part of the world that seems beyond the means of Scott Jones to visit. In addition to trips throughout the United States, Jones has gone to China, the U.S.S.R., the U.K., Continental and Eastern Europe, and South America, all in connection with paranormal research. It would probably be rude to inquire about the source of funds for all this globe trotting (and what Scott's "funders" expect to gain). CONNECTIONS Scott’s unique position on the staff of one of the ranking members of the U.S. Senate (Claiborne Pell) has been discussed above. The official connection alone is enough to guarantee easy access to the widest range of government agencies and private organizations at the executive level. Beyond that, Senator Pell's personal network, firmly based on his credentiais as an Eastern Establishment aristocrat, was at the disposal of Jones. It is difficult to imagine any door that could not be opened by this awesome combination. Thus Scott often escorted Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein, a very wealthy European with a longstanding interest in the paranormal. Together, they visited parapsychological laboratories and UFO conferences. According to the Sunday Times of India for August 4, 1991, Hans-Adam controls 97% of the voting rights and 85% of the share capital of the Bank of Liechtenstein, which in turn controls the 3.3 billion dollar GT Management of London. The personality magazine Special Report (November 1990-January 1991) described the Prince as "Heir to the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire." Recently, in a bizarre turn of events that was reported in several outlets including Harper's Magazine (January 1991, page 25), a personal letter from Scott to "Dear Dick" Cheney, the Secretary of Defense, was published. That Jones should be in a position to write a letter to the Secretary and address him as "Dick" is illuminating. One would suppose that all this "clout" would result in a tangible flow of money into the accounts of laboratories and individuals engaged in paranormal research. Oddly, this does not seem to be the case. In the last three years, two major parapsychological Laboratories have closed due to lack of funds. Scott was well familiar with their work and their Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
ea EE a . Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 8 plight, but was unable to help. Scott enjoys considerable support, even luxury, in his own pursuit of paranormal inquiry. Yet the ASPR, of which he is president, is widely known to be in dire financial straits. The flow of information and money appears to be to Scott, not from him. RUMORS A number of intriguing rumors have been circulated by Scott watchers: eThat Jones has approached professional parapsychological researchers and questioned them about how best to recruit and utilize psychics for military intelligence gathering. eThat Jones has visited an enormous number of psychics for "readings." eThat Jones has taken a number of psychic development courses. eThat for many years Jones has been involved with classified research on electronic mind control. @In the Fall of 1988 a television documentary entitled “UFO Coverup? ~- Live" was shown throughout the U.S. The program featured "revelations" from alleged intelligence agents about aliens enjoying the hospitality of the government at an unnamed Air Force base. This program is considered to be a classic instance of UFO disinformation. Rumor has it that, two years prior to this, Jones had approached media representatives about doing a show about UFOs, and that he had offered to provide secret information from the government for the program. eAmong some of the New Agers who have been in Scott's company, he has acquired a reputation for having an extraordinary memory. It is said that he can uncannily repeat, word for word, conversations that took place long before. This is done without the benefit of notes or a tape recorder, and is said to occur in instances where witnesses to the conversation thought he wasn't even paying attention. This gift must have been useful to Scott in his intelligence career. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 9 DOLPHINS Jones has conducted his own dolphin telepathy studies along with Colonel John Alexander and Theodore Rockwell, a prominent (Who's Who) nuclear engineer who has worked on naval nuclear propulsion systems and who also serves as vice president of the U.S. Psychotronics Association. Although Scott has been rather shy when it comes to committing his ideas to paper, he has, on a few occasions, made informal presentations at parapsychology conferences. The most notable of these was his description of his dolphin telepathy experiments, which he describes as “interspecies communication." The reception from the general audience was warm, but some professionals were appalled by what they perceived as the lack of scientific basis for Scott's ciaims. Scott displayed marvelous creativity when he enthusiastically urged that dolphins be channeled in order to locate the remains of crashed flying saucers. In one bold stroke he thereupon melded the previously disparate disciplines of ufology and parapsychology. GOVERNMENT UFO CONNECTIONS This is the title of the paper delivered by Scott Jones to the seven hundred ufologists assembled at the 1991 MUFON symposium in Chicago. It should also, perhaps, be the sign on the various doors of Scott Jones' various offices during the past ten years. Just a bit more paint would tell the whole story: "Government UFO/Psi Connections -- Walk In." The MUFON paper trudges through Poly Sci 101, outlining the tensions that exist between the legislative and the executive branches of our government. We read every word, waiting for the bombshell. Scott goes to China, with full Senate portfolio, and asks about UFO reports. Somehow, the Chinese think he is there to share information! As Jones tells the story in his 1991 Omega Conference speech, "They could not believe that someone who was truly a Special Assistant to a very senior U.S. Senator would ask for an appointment to talk about UFOs and then pretend not to know what his government was doing in the field." When it becomes obvious that Scott is not forthcoming about what the U.S. Government knows about UFOs, the Chinese respond in kind and give him pieces of metal that, they assert (in veiled Oriental fashion), may, or may not, come from a crashed disc. Next Scott walks us through a detailed metallurgical analysis that proves the metal to be the entirely terrestrial debris from an electrical power transmission tower. Perhaps Scott's presentation could be construed as a subtie advertisement for his access to high Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 10 tech analysis capabilities. (Message: contact Scott at once if you have suspected alien material for analysis.) Worried, but still anticipating, we come to the bottom Line: Scott has to confess to ufologists, Chinese, American or whatever, that he "...-.honestly did not know of any activity of the U.S. government" in the field of UFOS (page 176). This statement should be received with amusement by ufologists. Two credible books have been written about the massive documentation that has been uncovered, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other sources, detailing covert federal interest in UFO reports and the activities of UFO researchers and organizations (Clear Intent, Fawcett & eee Greenwood, Prentice-Hall, 1984, and Revelations, Jacques Vallee, Ballantine, 1991). There is overwhelming evidence that personnel from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), a counter intelligence organization, have for years been involved in disinformation activities in the UFO field. The following are a few well known examples of “activity of the U.S. Government" in the field of UFOS. Despite his repeated claims of ignorance, Jones' name has surfaced in some of these cases. William L. Moore A ubiquitous character in this continuing saga is one William L. Moore, a former Minnesota school teacher and co-author of The Philadelphia Experiment (Berlitz and Moore, 1979) and The Roswell Incident (Berlitz and Moore, 1980). In fact it was Moore who sparked the intense interest in the now celebrated Roswell incident. Moore's name is also well known in relation to Richard Doty, Jaime Shandera, Md-12, Paul Bennewitz, and Lee Graham, and reports also link him to our favorite "know-nothing" for some years. In the June 1989 issue of the MUFON UFO Journal, Robert Hastings published a plistering attack on the credibility of William Moore. A few months later, in a speech delivered to an astonished audience at the 1989 MUFON Symposium, Moore admitted to a long career as a "controlled informant" to the U.S. Government. Further, in the same amazing talk, Moore admitted to having deceived a number of people. The ensuing uproar has yet to subside, and in a recent interview Moore admitted to still being a controlled informant (UFO, 1992 Vol. 7, No. 1). In his 1991 Omega Conference talk, Jones echoed some of the themes of Moore's 1989 MUFON spectacle. Jones spoke Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 11 discouragingly of the use of the Freedom of Information Act, and in one of his parenthetical remarks, he spoke of Moore with approbation. In fact, only two other ufologists, Professor Michael Swords and conference organizer John White, were mentioned in the entire speech. Shortly after his remarks about Moore, Jones again proclaimed that he "quite honestly..-didn't have the vaguest idea of what the government was doing" in the field of UFOs. Sergeant Richard Doty One of Moore's Long-time buddies is Sergeant Richard Doty, with whom he is now advertising a co-authored forthcoming book. Doty was formerly a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Hastings' 1989 paper makes a strong case that Doty was involved in fabricating a UFO report delivered to the civilian Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in 1980. Linda M. Howe, a television journalist known for her work on cattle mutilations, was invited to Kirtland AFB in 1983 by Doty. At the time, she was working on a documentary on UFOs. During her visit, Doty showed her what he claimed were briefing documents prepared for the president of the United States and which discussed crashed saucers and recovered bodies of ETs (UFO Universe duly 1988). Doty promised movie footage would be provided later. But the footage never arrived, and Howe's documentary was cancelled, which Howe now suspects was the intended purpose of offering her the "bait." Howe produced a sworn statement describing her meeting with Doty. He later denied the incident, but in an apparently unrelated matter, Doty's honesty was questioned by the military and he flunked a lie detector test, thus casting further doubt on Doty's integrity (Skeptics UFO Newsletter, January 1991). There is every reason to believe Howe's account. Jacques Vallee (Revelations) reports that Moore now claims that Doty worked for an Officer Hennessey, based at the Bolling AFB Headquarters of AFOSI (the name "Hennessey" also arises in the case of Lee Graham, described below). Captain Robert Collins But Richard Doty is not the only person on Kirtland AFB to take part in these shenanigans. In November 1987 Captain Collins arranged a meeting with Linda Howe, which was also attended by John Lear, a former employee of a CIA front called Air America, the son of the famous inventor Bill Lear (the car radio, the Lear jet), anda candidate for the State Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
americana meters ananassae saa Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 12 Legislature in Nevada. Lear has also been a primary source for stories claiming that there are vast underground bases in the Southwest populated by aliens carrying out grotesque biological experiments using humans, all with the approval and connivance of the U.S. Government. At the meeting, Collins presented Howe and Lear with documents concerning MJ-12 and an alien held captive by the government. According to Howe's affidavit, Collins spoke of having worked "behind the scenes" for many years with William Moore. This is quite extraordinary activity on the part of Doty and Collins, and much of it took place on government property over a period of years. Some skeptics have suggested that the Doty-Collins activities were simply the private hobby of a couple of renegades. If so, Jones should certainly be in a position to clear the air on this. Indeed, even Philip Klass has uncovered government information on Doty. But despite Jones' "honest" ignorance of the "activity of the U.S. government" he met with Moore and Doty while in the employ of Senator Pell (UFO, 1992, Vol. 7, No. 1). But he has refused to discuss the matter with credible investigators. Whatever the ultimate reason for the Doty-Collins activities, the effect has been to waste an immense amount of the time, energy and money of UFO researchers. ' Lear has often stated that he obtains his data about underground bases, etc., from "intelligence sources." ("The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," by Robert Hastings, MUFON UFO Journal, No. 254, June 1989). Jaime Shandera and Md-12 Moore's colleague, Jaime Shandera, a television producer, claims to have received a roll of undeveloped film in the mail in mid-December 1984. And Shandera promptly alerted his colleague. Development showed a document purporting to describe a crashed saucer recovered by the U.S. Government in 1947. The material also suggested that alien bodies were recovered and that a top secret panel of 12 scientists, military leaders, and intelligence officials (MJ-12) were commissioned to supervise the investigation. Study of the MJ-12 documents has absorbed an immense amount of effort which the impoverished UFO research community can ill afford. It is most unfortunate that Scott Jones, in his search for UFO-related activity of the U.S. Government, did not use the power of his position to establish the provenance of the MdJ-12 papers or the motives of the various government employees engaged in their dissemination. In October 1990, Shandera contacted an jnactive UFO (R) saying that his "contact" had told him that a high authority (perhaps in the Pentagon) had determined that Shandera Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 13 should establish and maintain a relationship with R- Shandera also let it be known that he was in contact with a scientist in the military involved with remote viewing. R began having apparently precognitive dreams involving Saddam Hussein and Iraq, and he reported them to Shandera. Shandera toid R that he passed these along to "authorities." R later learned that Shandera and Moore were in contact with Scott Jones, and R called Jones. Jones expressed familiarity with the reported dreams and went on to say that he was familiar with Psi Tech but gave Little further information. 1 Paul Bennewitz Paul Bennewitz, a physicist and manufacturer of temperature and humidity measuring devices sold to the military, claimed to have discovered alien devices and communications at Kirtland AFB. The military apparently took Bennewitz seriously, and he was invited to Kirtland to present his material. Bennewitz eventually was hospitalized for psychiatric care and has dropped out of UFO research. It appears that Bennewitz was the object of a program of psychological destabilization originated by AFOSI at Kirtland. Documents concerning Bennewitz were signed by Special Agent Doty. In his published MUFON speech, Moore claimed that he had no hand in the "dirty tricks." but in fact tried to protect Bennewitz, although he knew Bennewitz was being disinformed and becoming progressively more unbalanced. This is one of the most ominous chapters in the Moore-Doty-AFOSI litany, and it cries out for investigation by the legislative branch of the U.S. government. Unfortunately, Jones, in his Diogenes-iike search for “activity of the U.S. government" has missed this one. Lee Graham Before the appearance of the MJ-12 papers, UFO researcher Lee Graham, a technician with a secret clearance working for Aerojet Electrosystems, Azusa, California, was contacted by William Moore. Graham had never met Moore, but had written to him after the publication of the Moore-Berlitz book on Roswell. During the next few months Moore gave to the perplexed Graham a series of documents, all exhibiting security classification markings. These papers included the alleged Eisenhower briefing document and other material relating to UFOs and government involvement with aliens or alien technology- Graham, whose livelihood depends on maintaining his security clearance, eventually took the documents to the Aerojet official in charge of security, and asked that both the documents and Moore be investigated by the Defense Investigative Service (DIS). Ultimately, the documents were pack in Graham's hands, marked "unclassified." Grahan, however, became the object of intense scrutiny by the DIS. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7