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Probed ingest of: THE ARCHITECT: A Lockheed Martin Vice President Proposed Transferring Crash Retrieval Hardware to the Pentagon. He Died Without a Record.
Source Claims
5- Source reportedAsserted
The Sentinel reports that Dr. James T. Ryder proposed transferring alleged crash-retrieval material from a Lockheed Martin facility to government custody through a DIA-linked mechanism.
A sitting Vice President of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the man commanding $9 billion in annual R&D, walked into a DIA program and said: we have physical material. It has been in our custody since the 1950s. Here is where it is. Here is what it is. I want to move it to you.
- Source reportedAsserted
The Sentinel reports that Glenn Gaffney, then head of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology, disapproved the proposed transfer.
Glenn Gaffney, serving as Director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology from approximately 2007 to 2015, personally disapproved the transfer.
- Source reportedAsserted
The Sentinel reports that Dr. James T. Ryder died on May 28, 2018, and that it found only limited public documentation of his death.
Dr. James T. Ryder died on May 28, 2018. Memorial Day. Here is everything that exists in the public record confirming that this happened.
- InterpretationAsserted
The Sentinel argues that the limited documentary record surrounding Dr. Ryder’s death represents an unusually severe public-record gap.
The absence of a death record for Dr. James T. Ryder across multiple authoritative state and national databases, combined with the absence of any corporate, institutional, or media acknowledgment of his death, represents the most complete documentary erasure we have encountered in the ATTRITION series.
- Source reportedAsserted
The Sentinel reports that after retiring, Dr. Ryder remained connected to researchers associated with AAWSAP-related networks, including Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff.
Through SAFIRE and its adjacent networks, Ryder maintained direct connections to Dr. Eric Davis and Dr. Hal Puthoff.
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Reported death of Dr. James T. Ryder
The Sentinel reports that Dr. James T. Ryder died on May 28, 2018, and cites limited public documentation of the event. 
Retirement from Lockheed Martin Space Systems
According to the source material, Ryder retired from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in February 2011 after serving as Vice President beginning in May 2005.
AAWSAP activation
The source places Ryder’s later reported contacts and transfer proposal in the broader context of the DIA’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. 
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