The Why of the JFK Hit

Hi:

Yesterday, I was reading that new book on the astronauts, and I read the chapter on Philip Chapman, the first Australian astronaut and who was in Brian’s astronaut group. His life was as eventful as Brian’s in ways. There were no slouches in the astronaut corps. However, the chapter on Chapman, and the book in general, was very frank on the political nature of NASA and the astronaut corps. Astronauts fought over assignments, and the politicking was intense. The astronaut corps was pretty dysfunctional. Not long ago, I read Buzz Aldrin state that his lunar adventure largely led to envy and jealousy among his astronautic brethren, not happiness for him and appreciation.

I have had to long ponder the unsavory aspects of NASA’s culture, beginning when the military took vengeance on my father’s abandonment of the Space Race, and Brian’s first book was the first critical insider account of the astronaut corps. To this day, NASA fanboys are uniformly disdainful of Brian and his “disrespect” of NASA, but his formerly “radical” views have become increasingly mainstream, and as a pal wrote in recent years, who worked in Mission Control and helped put the ISS in orbit, today’s NASA is a pale shadow of its glory days in the 1960s, full of glory hounds and wannabees, trying to recapture the cachet of those halcyonic days. Today, in sober NASA scholarship and commentary, I see Brian’s NASA observations quoted more as sage and prescient reflections, far ahead of his time, than I do the disdain that marked his last years, when he didn’t even have a bio at NASA’s site.

But in the days since I was a space brat, many dark aspects of the USA’s space efforts have come to my attention. Where to even start? I suppose that I could start with the NASA Nazis, led by Werner von Braun, who was the reason why Brian was hired as an astronaut, as the first talent in the stable for von Braun’s Mars dreams. Last year, I read several books on Operation Paperclip, and von Braun came off as kind of a monster. An SS-man, von Braun was proud of the slave workforce that he assembled to work on the V-2 rockets. The V-2 was almost exclusively aimed at cities, which was a war crime in itself (but the USA dwarfed those crimes, in the end), but more than 20,000 people died to make those V-2s. After their capture by the Americans, von Braun acted like a rock star, signing autographs and the like. It was all pretty macabre.

But the USA could not get enough German scientists with the desired credentials, and it quickly turned a blind eye to scientists and doctors who performed human experiments in the death camps, and put them on the American payroll while covering up their past in the name of national security. Disney made von Braun into a household name in the 1950s, as he hosted a show for the kiddies and designed a Disneyland ride, and his sidekick helped Disney promote nuclear energy to children. That was all before the Space Race, and JFK did not even want a space race, but tried to end it soon before he was murdered, and that effort might be why he was murdered.

Greer has long maintained that Armstrong and Aldrin had an ET encounter on the Moon, and that was partly why they were such “changed” men when they returned. I have been given inside information on astronautic encounters with ETs in space (including a rather spectacular encounter), and when Brian poked his nose into the UFO issue, it shortened his life, courtesy of the American military. I was recently contacted by a relative of a Moon-walking astronaut, because of my Apollo section of my cover-up essay. It is pretty dark stuff, all around.

Buzz Aldrin was so rudderless after returning from the Moon that he ended up in a mental institution and tried his hand at selling cars, before Brian got him a job. Brian lost his job there, because he refused to work on Reagan’s Star Wars project. I could go on for days on that stuff, but let’s just say that the heroic sheen of the Apollo days has dimmed quite a bit for me over the years, not the least of which was my nation’s inflicting an indefensible genocide at the same time.

In the midst of all of that, Brian wondered about the Moon landings, which created a firestorm of controversy that he regretted until his life’s end.

I need to finish up this JFK/ET business soon and get on to my essay update and other chores, but I’ll say that if you had told me when I was 25 that my journey would bring me into contact with Gary, Brian, Dennis, and others, in situations in which I would encounter inside information on the JFK hit, on ETs, on the realities of free energy and the like, I would not have believed you. I still look back on my journey and wonder if it really happened that way, and I lived it, so I can appreciate “skepticism” of the reality of my journey and those of my fellow travelers. But true skepticism means getting out of one’s armchair and finding out for one’s self, not what the “skeptics” do.

There are still some JFK posts coming, but the end is near for them for now.

Best,

Wade