SGFOIA3 ‘ Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 ’ : ! A. J. Durant —_] WILL THE REAL SCOTT JONES PLEASE STAND UP ? The purpose of this monograph is to sing the praises of the Renaissance Man of the Paranormal, Cecil B. Scott Jones, Ph.D. If your field is ufology, you know Scott as a mover, shaker, organizer and confidante of some of the central figures in URO research. And if you are a parapsychologist, you recognize the same face from countiess symposia, boards of directors, and the like. Ufologists and parapsychologists seldom communicate, and even more rarely do they attend each other's meetings. So it comes as a shock to each group to learn that Scott has a foot so firmly planted in the "other" arena. His interest in these fields appears to have been triggered by personal experience. Scott describes his UFO sighting, which took place when he was a Navy fighter pilot in the Korean War, thus: "As I rolled into a split-S to descend to low altitude from around 30,000 feet, I saw a silver dise directly overhead" (Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During The Korean War, R. F- Haines, LDA Press, Los Altos, CA, 1990, page 54). He also had a "parapsychological" experience, which he describes in these vague terms: "When I retired from the Navy, aS a result of something that happened to me, in the Navy, which was parapsychological in nature, I decided that there would be interest and there might be a commercial application, if what I was calling then applied psychic phenomena was understood, and could be used in certain circumstances" (Lecture, Society for Psychical Research, England, November 1990). UFOLOGY Scott's "clout" in ufology can perhaps be illustrated by a brief summary of his activities at the TREAT II conference in January 1990 at the Blacksburg, Virginia campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). For you parapsychologists, TREAT stands for Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma. And that is crypto for UFO abduction research. About 70 investigators, including many research psychologists, clinicians, MDs, physicists and assorted intellectuals who take the abduction phenomenon very seriously met for five days to share ideas. This was by invitation only, no publicity desired or allowed. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 2 Scott chaired a panel, conferred with the university sponsors, acted as liaison with the Prince of Liechtenstein who was the major benefactor of the conference, and conferred on strategic organizational issues with Walter Andrus, the leader of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a major ufo research organization in America, and John Schuessler’, Andrus' close ufological associate and second-in-command. TREAT was organized by Rima Laibow, MD, a psychiatrist determined to get mainstream attention for the abduction puzzle. She is the obvious and very visible leader, but Scott is never far. Laibow is a very energetic person and the center of violent controversy in abduction research circles. Previously a close associate of Budd Hopkins, Laibow is reported to be an abductee. She is also very well connected and has an exceptional "network" extending into Europe and the Soviet Union. If you can get close to Laibow, you are close to the state-of-the-art in abduction research. Scott stays close. In the Fall of 1990 they lectured together in England.“ As late as the summer of 1991 Jones and Laibow were planning a yachting excursion together with Col. John Alexander (retired from the U.S. Army) to investigate anomalies in the Bahamas. Similarly, Jones was very familiar with Andrus and Schuessler prior to TREAT, and presumably remains on the closest terms with then. Andrus is retired and devotes all his time to running MUFON. Thus Jones is on the inside with respect to data collected by MUFON. In 1989 MUFON appointed Jones as a Special Consultant in International Relations, formalizing the relationship. A cynic might ask if Scott's activities could suggest something other than a very active interest in the UFO mystery. The cynic could point out that he has insinuated himself into the inner sanctums of UFO research, has the ear of policy makers, and is in a position to monitor developments in all critical areas of study. A breakthrough in civilian ufology, such as the unambiguous identification of an alien artifact, would come to his attention almost at once. A policy decision concerning the disposition of the hypothetical artifact would probably not be taken before consulting with Scott. It is interesting to note that Scott is a cipher to the average UFO researcher or enthusiast. That is, the perhaps three or four thousand people who follow the subject with some diligence over a protracted period of time, can easily recognize the names of probably 50 or so individuals who have made contributions to ufology or are “important” people Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 3 in the field. But they would be puzzled if asked to identify C. B. Scott Jones. Scott rarely puts anything on paper, preferring instead to work behind the scenes, keeping in touch via telephone or personal visit. He attends most conferences of note, and goes to great lengths, in the literal geographical sense, to meet not only researchers but important witnesses. He has shown particular interest in spending time with "abductees" in recent years. But unlike so many others in ufology who rush to the typewriter to broadcast their opinions, Scott keeps his own quiet counsel. Thus he provides us all with an uplifting example of humility. In a departure from his usual rule against publishing, Scott presented a paper at the 1991 conference of the Mutual UFO Network. The title was "Government UFO Connections." Those who were advised in advance of the title, and who knew something of Scott's background, thought the paper would contain a spectacular revelation. In a sense, it did. But more on that later. PARAPSYCHOLOGY Scott Jones has been a fixture at parapsychology symposia ranging from the most august academic gatherings to New Age meetings and those of the human potential movement at least since the mid-1970s, when he organized a parapsychology conference in Casper, Wyoming. Among the conferences he has attended are those of the Parapsychological Association, the American Society for Psychical Research, the Society for Scientific Exploration, the Southeastern Regional Parapsychological Association, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Society for Psychical Research, the International Forum on New Science, and the Archaeus Congress, to name a few. In 1983 a firm called Kaman Tempo, specializing in “think tank" intelligence analysis for the U.S. Government, organized a seminar on parapsychological applications. The seminar was attended by a number of federal employees. A formal Proceedings of the seminar was published, with Jones as editor. In his sparse remarks, Jones made clear his very wide network of federal contacts, and intimated that he was the organizer of the seminar. This was certainly an auspicious start for someone who was just beginning to be noticed by insiders in parapsychology. Scott. has been on the Board of Trustees of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) since 1985, and now serves as its President. The ASPR was founded more than a century ago, and is the oldest organization in the U.S. to publish a refereed scientific journal in parapsychology. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7
SE a a ET ia as aoe Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7 4 Complaints have been aired about his stewardship of the ASPR. These include charges that he is attempting to remove professional researchers from the Board of Trustees, replacing them with individuals who are more pliant to Jones' personal agenda for the organization. As in the field of ufology, one searches in vain for significant published material from the hand of Scott Jones. It appears that his only contribution to a parapsychological journal is a review of John White's Psychic Warfare: Fact or Fiction? for the June 1989 issue of the Journal of BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Scott dones was born in 1928, and lived at least part of his childhood between Guifport and Biloxi, Mississippi. He joined the U.S. Navy in about 1946. Following flight training in the Aviation Midshipman Program, he was commissioned in 1950. He was a career officer in the U.S. Navy, serving during the Korean War as a fighter pilot, which included two combat tours in VF-191, flying the F9F-2 Panther from the USS Princeton. He served in Naval Intelligence for approximately 15 years, inciuding assignments with Carrier Division 14, and as Assistant Naval Attache, New Delhi, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal in the 1960s. He collected intelligence and provided intelligence support throughout southeast asia, the middle east, and north Africa. Jones has briefed the President's Scientific Advisory Committee, and has testified before House and Senate committees on intelligence matters. Thus he served in naval intelligence for approximately 15 years, retiring around 1976. Jones received an A.B. in Government from George Washington University in 1961, an M.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 1963, and a Ph.D. in International Studies from American University in 1975, with a dissertation entitled “How The Indian Lok Sabha Handles Defense Matters: An Institutional Study." He taught political science for three years at Casper College, Casper, Wyoming, and the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. He has stated that he worked during the period following his Navy career for “several” companies, including R. F. Cross Associates, Ltd., of Alexandria, Virginia, and Kaman Tempo, "A Division of Kaman Sciences Corporation," in Alexandria, Virginia. His MUFON biographical sketch states Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7