2. THE MAJESTIC CONSORTIUM

Since THE BLESSING WAY, we have learned that even The Cigarette Smoking Man (or CSM) has someone to answer to. This is the council of "Elders" who meet at the old "gentlemen's club" on 46th Street in New York City. There might even be twelve of them if Chris Carter holds faithful to the Majestic-12 myth (although after repeated viewings of those scenes I can only isolate nine "Elders" and their "Factotum" or Major Domo . In the script,the members of this council are simply titled First (Heavy set with a gravelly voice), Second (Bald and smoking a cigar) and Third Elders (Thin and cadaverous). There is an Asian Elder, two bearded Elders and another balding Elder. The Cigarette Smoking Man and The Well Manicured Man also appear to be members of the Majestic council. That's nine by my count. Perhaps Deep Throat and Bill Mulder (Fox Mulder's father) were also members.

There have been hints that the Majestic Consortium has international connections. In THE BLESSING WAY, the Well Manicured Man referred to Majestic as "a kind of consortium . . . we represent certain global interests." There is an Asian Elder in the club on 46th Street and at the beginning of ANASAZI Italian, Japanese and German officials were fretting over the theft of the MJ documents.

Deep Throat, in E.B.E., referred to a secret international treaty between both East and West that required any nation capturing an alien to exterminate it. In THE MUSINGS OF A CIGARRETTE SMOKING MAN, Deep Throat called this treaty "U.N. Resolution 1013." So the Majestic Consortium may have at least some input and contact with foreign militaries, intelligence services or the United Nations. However, we have also seen foreign intelligence services (the Japanese in NESEI and 731, the French in PIPER MARU, and the Soviet KGB in TUNGUSKA and TERMA) spying on Majestic, trying to steal the secrets of alien technology and DNA. In THE MUSINGS OF A CIGARRETTE SMOKING MAN Deep Throat grumbles that the KGB, Chinese, Germans and the British would all be sending teams of agents to spy on the U.S. UFO salvage operation. This suggests that Majestic, while possessing international contacts and an obligation to act under U.N. Resolution 1013, vouches safe for the United States the information and technology Majestic develops through its studies. Alternatively, the U.S. military and intelligence communities may think that Majestic is short changing its foreign allies in their favor, but who knows? The Majestic Consortium may be short-changing the U.S. government and be pursuing goals unrelated to its original mission. This could explain the seeming conflict between the Majestic Consortium's apparent hostility to and cooperation with various extra-terrestrials.

According to UFO-Conspiracy theories, Majestic 12 is organized into various subprojects. We may have encountered as many as four of these subprojects on The X-Files.

UFO-TECHNOLOGY REVERSE-ENGINEERING:

This project, based at Ellens AFB in Idaho, (from the episode DEEP THROAT) is run almost exclusively by the United States Air Force. The main thrust of this project seems to be adapting UFO propulsion and energy systems to terrestrial aircraft. UFO-Conspiracy literature refers to this Subproject as SUBPROJECT REDLIGHT and alleges it to be based at the Nellis Air Force Test Range (Nellis . . .Ellens?) at a restricted section known as Area 51, or S-4. In APOCRYPHA the Cigarette Smoking Man refered to a base in Nevada (probably the infamous Area-51) where recovered UFOs are stored. In MAX, it was hinted at that some of these reverse engineering projects may be handled by defense contractors. It was hypothesised that Sharon Graffia, Max Fenig's partner in UFO-ology, stole the alleged alien power source from a aerospace defense contractor she had been working for.

The end-product of the REDLIGHT project may have been encountered in the epsiode JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE. USAF Lt. Jack Schaeffer tells an interesting tale to Mulder concerning how the UFO-style aircraft are part of a psychological-warfare intelligence gathering operation. "The enemy sees an American recon plane, they start shooting. They see a flying saucer from another galaxy? They hesitate."

THE UFO RECOVERY TEAM:

Another USAF operation. In FALLEN ANGEL, this subproject was called "Operation Falcon." Col. Calvin Henderson, the commander of Operation Falcon was often on the phone reporting to someone he called "Sir." That indicates he was dealing with a superior and that Col. Henderson is not a member of the Majestic Project board of Elders. In LITTLE GREEN MEN, the UFO recovery team is referred to as the "Blue Beret recovery team" and wore USAF insignia. In NESEI, the UFO recovery team used the salvage ship Talapus to raise a UFO from the ocean floor. And in TEMPUS FUGIT and MAX the UFO recovery team salvaged the wreckage of a shot-down UFO and the corpses of its occupants from the depths of Lake Sacandaga in upstate New York. The UFO recovery team procures the wrecked alien craft and examples of non-terrestrial biology (read: corpses) for reverse engineering at Ellens AFB, Area 51 and Purity Control. The UFO recovery team is probably responsible for exterminating any aliens that fall into their hands.

According to UFO-Conspiracy literature, the UFO Recovery Team is sometimes called THE BLUE TEAM. According to Pentagon documents from the 1960s, there was a USAF project designed to recover Soviet space hardware (spy sattilites or space vehicles) which had lost orbit and fallen to earth. This project, which at least existed as a project proposal, was called Project Moon Dust, and the unit that was proposed to transport Moon Dust recovery teams around the world on a moment's notice was called Operation Blue Fly.

PURITY CONTROL:

The most evil aspect of the Majestic conspiracy, Purity Control has appeared in THE ERLENMEYER FLASK, ASCENSION, ONE BREATH, RED MUSEUM, ANASAZI, THE BLESSING WAY, PAPERCLIP, NESEI, 731 and MOMENTO MORI. The phrase "Purity Control" first appeared as the project password for the alien-human hybrid project in THE ERLENMEYER FLASK. This project is trying to splice human and alien genes together in order to "improve" humanity. These experiments date back to the"merchandise" that was buried in the New Mexico desert in the late 1940s. They continue to this day and have necessitated the compilation of a massive data-base of genetic information culled from nearly every U.S. citizen born since 1950 which is stored in an abandoned mine in West Virginia. Purity Control's experiments are performed both covertly and clandestinely. Covert experiments are performed in the open by "Independent contractors" like Dr. Berube (from THE ERLENMEYER FLASK) and Dr. Larson (from RED MUSEUM) who operate under the cover of legitimate work. Clandestine experiments are performed out of the public eye at secret facilities like the Hansen's Disease Research Facility and the Genetic Data Repository in West Virginia, or the secret system of railcar laboratories. Purity Control doesn't seem particularly concerned about ethics of experimenting on unsuspecting human test subjects. Or of disposing of their test subjects afterwards.

Purity Control is also the most controversial project amoung the members of the Majestic Project. Bill Mulder threatened to expose Majestic when he found out about the hybridization experiments. Deep Throat, as is explained later, seemed to have a particular interest in aiming Mulder at Purity Control with the intent of exposing and shutting the project down. Perhaps others have been inspired to betray the secrets of the Majestic Project because of opposition to Purity Control.

Purity Control also has caused some friction between Majestic (which seems to be American dominated) and some of Majestic's foreign allies. In NESEI and 731, we saw how Dr. Ishimauru/Zama, a WWII vintage war criminal who had worked for the Majestic Consortium since the beginning, tries to smuggle the hybridization technology he developed for Majestic back to his homeland. If Majestic was truly sharing the technology and information it was developing from its studies of alien technology and biology evenly with its erstwhile allies, then there would have been no need for Dr. Ishimauru/Zama to betray Majestic and try and leak the Alien-human hybridization technology to Japan.

BLACK CANCER INNOCULATION PROJECT:

This is the most recent aspect of the Majestic Consortium to be revealed. We first encoutered it in the episodes TUNGUSKA and TERMA. It would appear that this project was headed by noted Virologist (now deceased) Dr. Bonita Chung-Sayer. Samples of an extra-terrestrial bio-hazardous material excavated from the area around a meteor (or perhaps spacecraft) inpact in Siberia were stolen by the Majestic Consortium from a Soviet project. The Soviets apparently turned the bio-hazardous material into a bio-weapon which was used by the Iraqis in the Gulf War. In concentrated form the Black Cancer produces a kind of paralysis. However, despite having this weapon (which seeks out its targets by slithering around like slugs) the Soviets didn't have an innoculation to protect their troops from the Black Cancer. So the Soviets continued to excavate the "Black Cancer" and experiment with the inhabitants of their secret gulag trying to perfect an innoculation for the Black Cancer. Considering that Mulder was exposed to the Black Cancer and has suffered no ill effects, it would appear that the Soviet project is near completion.

The Majestic Consortium's Black Cancer Innoculation Project was one of its most closely guarded secrets. "Only six of us knew," said the Well Manicured Man. That number included Dr. Chung-Sayer, the Cigarrette Smoking Man and three others. The project used the residents of a retirement home in Boca Raton Florida as test subjects and may have been well on the way to creating an innocualtion for the Black Cancer, certainly the residents infested with the Black Cancer were not paralyzed. The BC Innoculation project may be defunct since it's project head, test subjects and access to the Soviets' supply of the Black Cancer have been eliminated.

GARNET:

This project provides security for all the other projects, be it the Reverse Engineering Projects, the Recovery Team, and Purity Control. That's why guys like the Crewcut Man, Alex Krychek and the Red Haired Man clean up the messes left behind by Purity Control and chase down stolen components from alien power sources. This is where the "Men in Black" come from: Those steely eyed covert ops thugs who steal or destroy evidence and silence or discredit witnesses. In all likelihood the Cigarrette Smoking Man is the Sub-Project Director for GARNET.

According to the Lone Gunmen, GARNET sends its men to the School of the Americas for training. The School of the Americas was originally set up in the Panama Canal Security Zone, but has since been moved to Ft. Benning GA. It's where thousands of Latin American officers received training in counter-insurgency warfare from the U.S. Army. GARNET probably recruits its membership out of the military, particularly the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets, SEALs, Marine Recon, etc.). Certainly they execute their mission with military precission.

According to UFO-Conspiracy literature GARNET is the name of Majestic-12's "information security" division. It has also been refered to as NRO (National Recon Organization) Section Delta by other writers.

According to UFO-Conspiracy theory literature, other MJ-12 Subprojects include:

SIGMA:

An NSA based project whose goal is to establish communications with the aliens. Some UFO literature suggests that this project succeeded in the mid 1960s.

PLATO:

This project is designed to establish diplomatic relations with the aliens. Some UFO-Conspiracy literature suggests that this project led to a secret treaty between the aliens and the government wherein the U.S. Government allows and aids the aliens in their abduction of humans in exchange for access to alien technology. Some UFO-Conspiracies suggest that this deal has fallen apart.

AQUARIUS:

Sometimes this is the name given to the over-all alien studies project, other times Aquarius is the name of a project which examines the contact aliens have had with humanity in the past. Aquarius is supposed to determine how much cultural, religious and evolutionary influence the aliens have had on mankind as a whole. (Some writers call this project GARNET. UFO-Conspiracy literature is very contradictory and often changes radically from one writer to the next.)

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