The late CIA official Victor Marchetti: “Let’s assume there are UFOs or there have been contacts - if only signals - from outer space, but the evidence reveals the aliens are interested only in observing us [and] they have no hostile intentions and are no direct threat to any nation. If this is the case, public knowledge of these facts could become a threat. If the existence of UFOs were to be officially confirmed, a chain reaction could be initiated that would result in the collapse of the E...

VICTOR MARCHETTI, (1929-2018) AUTHOR OF THE CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE Ten years after Victor Marchetti resigned from CIA and five years after publishing a scathing critique of his former employer “The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence”, the once assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA published his 1979 article,” How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon” in the Second Look Magazine. A portion is quoted below. In my judgment, his analysis correctly identifies the main reasons for the eig...

VICTOR MARCHETTI, (1929-2018) AUTHOR OF THE CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE Ten years after Victor Marchetti resigned from CIA and five years after publishing a scathing critique of his former employer “The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence”, the once assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA published his 1979 article,” How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon” in the Second Look Magazine. A portion is quoted below. In my judgment, his analysis correctly identifies the main reasons for the eig...