Quote:His role “has remained hidden for 70 years,” write Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes in the current issue of Studies in Intelligence, the C.I.A.’s in-house journal; their article is titled “On the Trail of a Fourth Soviet Spy at Los Alamos.” In separate interviews, the sleuths said they were still gathering clues regarding the exact character of Mr. Seborer’s atomic thefts.

A mole in New Mexico.

From an examination of archival materials from the K.G.B., the Soviet Union’s main intelligence agency, Mr. Klehr and Mr. Haynes learned about a shadowy group of moles in the United States known as the “Relative’s Group.” Three of the faction’s members — code-named Relative, Godfather and Godsend — were brothers. According to the study, the archival documents said that Godsend was at Los Alamos and that he was providing secret information on “Enormous,” the K.G.B.’s code name for the American project.

(01-26-2023, 11:45 AM)BIAD Wrote: I always chortle when I read the Army's 'rational' explanation of what was supposed to have really come down out at the
Foster ranch and how dumb they made Brazel out to be. On the face of it, the Mogul cover-story makes sense, but when
fair logic is applied, just like a punctured balloon, it doesn't hold water.


Bill Brazel.

If Haut was instructed to write and issue the press-release to -with all respects to The Roswell Daily Record, a small-town
newspaper, it could only mean that Blanchard via Ramey knew of the Mogul project, was aware of its delicate situation in
regards of damage to an already sensitive political position and gambled that a UFO tale would allay any Russian interest.
But considering the public's interest in 'flying saucers', was this a smart move?

And on the back of all this, it means any Ufo sighting in the future was to be deemed foolish and a report from the public
or military personnel could not be trusted. After all, a Brigadier and a Colonel of the 509th Operations Group -who conducted
the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a couple of years before, believed the flying saucer craze wasn't something
to be taken seriously and had just told a newspaper of such an opinion.

Or did the Military lie back then or are they lying now with their latest shenanigans?!

(I have a framed copy of that front-page on my conservatory wall!!)

Yet Blanchard, those he controlled and the engineers that were allegedly involved in this listening experiment never went
to look for this downed-balloon and the attached apparatus. Sheriff Wilcox was not advised to keep his ear to the ground
for any reports from locals who'd discovered a weather balloon on their respective properties and Blanchard's subordinates
were kept out of the loop too. Nobody had to mention anything about sensitive data and one might suggest that any results
from any tests involving balloons could be deemed important to those performing the tests.

Nobody had to be instructed to keep their mouths shut about this particular experiment and nobody had to ring the 'crashed
disc'-bell, all those who were involved had to do was search for the downed instruments... just like they did when any other
Rawin Target balloon went astray.

A real cover was already there, they regularly sent experimental balloons up in a place where the atmosphere is conducive
with performing such meteorological analysis and one of them went missing. It's now no big deal... maybe a small reward
if someone shows up with information in finding it, but certainly don't tell the world you've nabbed a space vehicle!!!

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Not one for offering 'imaginations', but what if Mac Brazel did find the weathered remains of a balloon in June of 47 and
after -as he said, stashing away from his sheep who were too skitterish to go to the watering-hole, reported his discovery
to Roswell's Sheriff almost a month later?

Brazel wasn't a scientist, he had no idea of what he'd found scattered across the property and if it was the sun-scorched
remains of a earthly device, his possible ploy to crow he was the guy who'd found a flying saucer wouldn't have lasted
long! And by the way, he never said it was something from out of this world to Sheriff Wilcox, he only jokingly "whispered
kinda confidential like" that he may have found a flying disc.

This suggestion may have originated due to the gossip he'd overheard on a visit to Wade's Bar and pool hall in Corona on
a Sunday after he and the Dee boy had come across the debris.
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Why would a no-nonsense rancher and family-man be a liability to those who who were supposedly listening in for any
Soviet nuclear trials? The engineers who'd sent the balloon up had lost it and possibly for success of the classified mission,
wished not to offer a sense of urgency in retrieving the apparatus.
That would make sense on the face of it, but then we're back to the Haut announcement!

I see Wikipedia is back to their old tricks again and changing historical reality. William Brazel never went to Corona to find
a telephone, Brazel went to Corona for supplies and witnesses said he was there for that reason alone. (Apart from a beer
at Wades!)
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Here's a few paragraphs from US Air Force Historian Richard P. Hallion's report on an official investigation into what had
supposedly NOT happened in Roswell New Mexico and considering the importance of what Mac Brazel had unknowingly
discovered frightening his sheep, offers no indication that anything happened at all!

The Roswell Report PDF:

'...A listing of the specific record areas searched is appended as Atch 13. The areas included all those subject areas
logically believed to possibly contain any reference to activities at Roswell Army Air Field during the period of time
in question.

It is anticipated that detractors from this effort will complain that “they did not search record group x, box y, or reel z,
etc.; that’s where the real records are!” Such complaints are unavoidable and there is no possible way that the millions
of records under Air Force control could be searched page by page.

The team endeavored to make logical searches in those places where records would likely be found. They were assisted
in this task by archivists, historians, and records management specialists, including experienced persons who have
continually worked in Army and Air Force records systems since 1943.

The team also searched some record areas that were recommended by serious private researchers such as Robert Todd,
who had independently obtained almost encyclopedic knowledge of the complexities of Air Force records systems,
particularly those related to this subject area.

Not surprisingly, the research team found the usual number of problems in many of the records centers (particularly
St. Louis) with misfiling, lost or misplaced documents, mismarking of documents, or the breaking up of record groups
over the years and refiling in different systems.

This included, for example, a small amount of missing ”decimal files” from the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell that covered
the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as ”destroyed.” The researchers noted that there was no pattern to
any anomalies found and that most discrepancies were minor and consistent with what they had found in the past on similar
projects..."

The anomalies were minor, a cowboy who herded sheep says he found bits of a flying saucer and a Colonel “Butch” Blanchard, Commander of the Roswell Army Airfield’s 509th Composite Group, agreed with him. So much so that he
ordered his public information officer Walter Haut to issue a press release stating this esteemed group had recovered
a "flying disc".

But no mention of such an atypical incident in a report with lots of big words.


(And because this topic will always bother me, here's some more of my views from the old RN website!)
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