Following a massive wave of UFO activity in 1952, the CIA decided it was time to suppress public interest in the subject via a covert, mass-media program of "training and debunking."
The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up by Terry Hanson
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According to Yuri Stroganov, heads the intelligence services of the USSR, Great Britain, United States and France held secret meetings in Geneva throughout 1956. There they reached an agreement regarding a policy of secrecy on 'the UFO problem', reportedly including: the pressurizing of witnesses (including death threats) to refrain from talking about their experiences; fabrication of false 'explanations' for sightings, the creation of a mechanism to ignore or play down the subject, involving the complicity of the military and scientific community as well as the media; and the inflitration of UFO research groups.21
Stonehill, Paul, The Secret UFO Files, Bramley Books, Quadrillion Publishing Ltd, Godalmig, Surrey, GU7 1XW, UK, 1998, p.41.
There is clearly an international agreement in force between all governments to withhold information on alien and UFO phenomena. (13/p.421)
'Through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense'.
The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up by Terry Hanson
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