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11 Crashing into the Whitehouse 11 Crashing into the Whitehouse Crashing into the White the mainstream media why some of his highest The operational use of the Internet by Crashing into the White House: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, ranking intelligence officials are pursuing the the DIA, inside of the United States, suggests House: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, UFO topic. the concept of "virtual flypaper" and "flypaper and the Extraterrestrial The President would smile, wave his theory." and the Extraterrestrial It is not entirely impossible for official Presence hand at the eager and bewildered reporters, add US Intelligence or their proxies in the private Presence "sorry folks, no comment," and walk out the by Gary S. Bekkum door. sector to establish enticing "sticky" topics to by Gary S. Bekkum The events of 9/11 may have closed the attract spy-flies. The big question is how much "Maybe you can save the Little Chicken Presidential disclosure door permanently. collateral damage spills over onto US citizens. with one of your "news" articles. He gets so Meanwhile, a slow trickle of real Pandolfi seemed determined to identify excited when you are working on one [of] those evidence of official government interest in the former USAF operative Rick Doty as the source articles that he stops thinking about crashing strange and unnatural has been largely ignored of the SERPO madness, at least as far as the into the White House." by the mainstream media. public was concerned. Ron Pandolfi, who had a day job Unlike the bogus and questionable In September of 2006, he wrote to Doty: working out of an office at the Defense documents held in high regard by UFO "What concerns me is whether you are Intelligence Agency for the Director of National believers, the new evidence comes from working for a foreign intelligence service. That Intelligence, was referring to his friend and unlikely sources, including the CIA. has been my sole interest in you from when I associate, Dan Smith, who had been dubbed There is a clear pattern of interest in a first heard your name and it has been the sole "Chicken Little" of the infamous AVIARY UFO "phenomenology problem" and even greater focus of my interactions with OSI and FBI group. The idea of a metaphorical crashing was interest in "how can we use this" with an concerning your behaviors and whereabouts. an apt image for those seeking government emphasis on "clandestine services." Recently Dr. Green relayed to me a claim disclosure from the Executive Office. Stranger than the historical record is the attributed to you that two DIA employees had Smith, the son of a former Eisenhower verified present day involvement of key identified John Gannon as the source of the Administration tax adviser, had worked hard to intelligence officials in UFO-related matters. SERPO story and Mr. Anonymous. As I earn his role as the AVIARY resident Over the past several years a new anticipated the two names you provided to Dr. eschatologist: he pondered the uncharted "phenomenology problem" has appeared, this Green are not those of DIA employees. The religious territory implied by the government's time on the Internet. most likely case is that you invented these UFO "phenomenology problem," where the end One of the best known, and most sources to cover your unauthorized access to of science smashes head first into the end of the controversial, is the strange tale of SERPO, an sensitive facilities including Los Alamos and world. on-line "disclosure" of the US government and SANDIA where you may have attempted to One of the truly unforgettable scenes extraterrestrial aliens. access classified information." inspired by real UFO sightings is a flying disc The knotty twists and turns of the From the beginning the Internet spies crashing into the US Capitol Building from the SERPO "SoaP OpERa" wind around various had been aware of allegations claiming that 1950s sci-fi cult classic EARTH VS. THE players, with email messages shared among a John Gannon, the former Deputy Director for FLYING SAUCERS. "Team of Three" and later another "Team of Intelligence at CIA, was the original SERPO The UFO invasion of Washington would Five," unknown sources claiming to work for Anonymous source. eventually be re-imagined on a grander scale in the DIA, citizen snoops faking Internet In 2006 the Intelligence Community a spectacular scene visualizing the total identities and hacking into private email was being widely outsourced, and Gannon's destruction of the White House, from the 1996 accounts to gain access to personal new role at BAE Systems put him in charge of alien invasion flick INDEPENDENCE DAY. communications, all followed by intelligence hundreds of qualified analysts in the private "BREAKING NEWS: WHITE HOUSE officials and contractors scrambling to provide sector. LEVELED BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS" "damage control" and redirect the course of the Was a private intelligence operation would qualify as the kind of UFO various agendas at play. involved in the machinations of the SERPO "phenomenology problem" guaranteed to elicit Perhaps more was at stake than a few Affair? an executive statement. bruised reputations. One source seemed to think so. Unfortunately, according to Smith, his It was Ron Pandolfi, the highly placed Pandolfi would later explain to a friend Pandolfi, who specializes in intelligence official and friend of Dan Smith, colleague, "You were correct that my interest is "measurement and signature" intelligence, told who released a series of email messages to and not specifically in Doty. My interest in him the real "phenomenology problem" is from Dr. Christopher Kit Green of the DIA temporarily removing Doty from the plot is to elusive and can't be traced. TIGER Committee -- messages which include test whether another actor will fill the role." Instead of tracking UFOs, the discussion of FBI involvement and the Justice Months later Pandolfi responded to my intelligence community has focused on tracking Department. request for an explanation of his unusual the "persons involved with the phenomena." The questionable use or misuse of methods. Notice he left out whether the references to FBI by both Green and Pandolfi are "None of the e-mails I provided to Dan "phenomena" was real, or an imagined but particularly troubling, given a generic inquiry to involved government activities," Pandolfi the FBI about Internet contact with CIA and DIA effective means of altering human behavior. officials returned a response from the local Joint explained, somewhat elusively, "They involved I'll return to the question of intelligence Terrorism Task Force. personal communications between me, Dan, officials and social control later in this series. It is a matter of public record that Pandolfi Kit, and Rick, concerning fabricated e-mail Smith had long pondered how to draw and his associates operated from the DIA, and accounts used to disseminate false documents media attention and the President to the UFO Green consulted to TIGER, a DIA National about UFOs, SERPO, etc. for which "phenomenology problem" -- a flying saucer or Academies of Science committee. government (intelligence) officials such as John two landing on the White House lawn on prime Following the SERPO email affair, AFP Gannon were falsely implicated." time TV would probably do the trick -- although and other mainstream news sources reported that Pandolfi then noted the issue of "sources crashing the White House gate has become the DIA "can operate in cyberspace" and can and methods" and later requested numerous more than a metaphor in the post 9/11 world. "conduct the operations inside the United States as redactions. All joking aside, Smith had been so well as overseas." Either members of the intelligence concerned that his friend Pandolfi may have The DIA cyberspace initiative had begun community had contracted Internet madness, or known something about 9/11 in advance that he in 2006 "on a trial basis," around the same time something else was at play. made a statement to a female Special Agent at Green engaged Pandolfi over the SERPO affair. I questioned why highly placed and the Baltimore Office of the FBI days later. The AFP report, which quoted Toby respected individuals would risk so much by Perhaps he should have sought out the Sullivan, a senior Pentagon CI (counter- exposing themselves to ridicule, not to mention Secret Service instead. intelligence) official, noted that the on-line the attention of the world intelligence Smith envisions a day when the operations were "not intended to catch spies but community, some who are no as friendly as their President of the United States will be asked by to turn their operations to US ends." American counterparts.[]