Month: May 2023

Activity Report, 05/24/23 to 05/30/23

  • Reading the following government reports:
    • Meeting the Espionage Challenge: A Review of United States Counterintelligence and Security Programs (Report 99-522) 10/03/86 (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence).
    • House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Counterintelligence and Security Concerns – 1986 Report 100-5 
    • “Stillwell Commission Report” – Keeping the Nation’s Secrets: A Report to the Secretary of Defense By the Commission to Review DOD Security Policy and Practices (1985).
    • The Inman Report: Report of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Panel on Overseas Security
  • Will return  to reviewing the  American Intelligence Journal issues through Roy Jonker’s tenure as president of the organization.
  • Reviewed (old) cassette tape of Emenegger interview on a radio station, and a transcript of an Emenegger interview in Linda Howe’s An Alien Harvest.
  • Researched FBI reaction to the release of the MJ-12 documents in the 1980s. Reviewed the FBI reading room file on MJ-12.
  • Reviewed a number of documents from the Barry Greenwood MJ-12 research file (courtesy David Marler Archive).
  • Reading
    • Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987. by Bob Woodward. Kindle Edition.  To p. 349 of 850.
    • Blind man’s bluff: the untold story of American submarine espionage, by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence. Archive.org audio. To p. 296 of 406.
    • Side Reading:
      • The Other Space Race – Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security by Nicholas Michael Sambaluk.

Activity Notes 05/17/23 to 05/23/23

  • Continued reviewing the American Intelligence Journal (Summer 1988, Fall 1988)
    • Intend to review American Intelligence Journal issues through Roy Jonker’s tenure as president of the organization.
  • Holding the review of above in abeyance in order to review four government reports on espionage and counterintelligence:
    • Meeting the Espionage Challenge: A Review of United States Counterintelligence and Security Programs (Report 99-522) 10/03/86 (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence).
    • House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Counterintelligence and Security Concerns – 1986 Report 100-5
    • “Stillwell Commission Report” – Keeping the Nation’s Secrets: A Report to the Secretary of Defense By the Commission to Review DOD Security Policy and Practices (1985).
    • The Inman Report: Report of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Panel on Overseas Security.
    • Have identified twenty espionage cases from the late ’70s through the mid ’80s.
  • Reading
    • Completed: How to Locate Anyone Who is or Has Been in the Military by Richard S. Johnson and Debra Johnson Knox. 
    • Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987. by Bob Woodward. Kindle Edition.  To p. 268 of 850.
    • Blind man’s bluff: the untold story of American submarine espionage, by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence. Archive.org audio. To p. 266 of 406.
  • Other
    • Became a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers

Activity Report 05/10/23 to 05/16/23

Research

  • Reviewed 2 additional issues of the organization’s newsletter American Intelligence Journal (Fall 1977 through January 1987).
    • Roy Jonkers as President of the Association shifted the newsletter to have longer, more in depth articles.

Writing

  • Organized work plans and decision rules to research and write the book tentatively titled Unanswered Questions: A History of the MJ-12 Affair.

Reading

  • How to Locate Anyone Who is or Has Been in the Military by Richard S. Johnson and Debra Johnson Knox. To p. 243 of 299.
  • Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987. by Bob Woodward. Kindle Edition.  To p. 196 of 850.
  • Blind man’s bluff: the untold story of American submarine espionage, by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence. Archive.org audio. To p. 262 of 406.


Activity Report 05/03/23 to 05/09/23

  • Research turn: Came across a document mentioning Roy Jonkers, which established that Jonkers was the president of the National Military Intelligence Association.
    • Reviewed 20 issues of the organization’s newsletter American Intelligence Journal (Fall 1977 through January 1987).
      • VADM Burkhalter showed up as a board member of the National Military Intelligence Association in the February 1983 issue.
      • Jonkers appears as President of the National Military Association in the January 1987 issue.
  • Writing
    • Continued writing into prospective book tentatively titled Unanswered Questions: A History of the MJ-12 Affair.
  • Reading
    • How to Locate Anyone Who is or Has Been in the Military by Richard S. Johnson and Debra Johnson Knox.
    • Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987. by Bob Woodward. Kindle Edition. 
    • Blind man’s bluff: the untold story of American submarine espionage, by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence. Archive.org audio.

Activity Report 04/26/23 to 05/02/23

  • Reviewed documents that mentioned Admiral Burkhalter on the CIA reading room website:
    • Have reviewed 62 documents so far.
    • Research turn: Came across a document mentioning Roy Jonkers, which established that Jonkers was the president of the National Military Intelligence Association.
      • Will be reviewing newsletters and articles in the National Military Intelligence Association’s American Intelligence Journal from 1977 through 1980s.
  • Read: The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger by GeorgeWingfield.