TO: Mr. Don C. McIlwain Declassification Division U. S. National Archives and Records Administration 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE; May 23, 2010 1. Reference: My column "Bryant's UFO View" as published in Issue No. 153 (February 2010) of the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine (under the subtitle 'Another Ride on the MJ-12 Merry-Go-Round') - a copy of which is enclosed. 2. The CIA FOIA coordinator's September 8, 2009, invitation that I direct my MDR request to your office prompts me to do so with this e-formatted letter (a signed printout of which I'm sending to you via USPS mail). 3. Please proceed with the sought-for MDR process by beginning with the following excerpt from reference 1b in my July 31, 2009, letter to CIA official Delores M. Nelson: "FILE DIST: [i. e., File Distribution] "CIA Top Secret "MJ-12" LARRY W. BRYANT Director, Washington, D. C., Office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://ufoview.posterous.com
TO: Hon. Patrick Garrity Chairman, Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs New Hampshire State House of Representatives 107 North Main Street Concord, NH 03301 FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: May 20, 2010 On behalf of Rye, New Hampshire, resident Peter R. Geremia, and based on the recent public announcement now posted on the internet site of YouTube.com (see the direct link provided by Item 2.69 of my blog,http://ufoview.posterous.com), in which one of your committee's former members, the Hon. Henry W. McElroy, Jr., recounts his witnessing, circa 2003 at the N. H. state house, an official, one-page "brief" directed to President Eisenhower about UFO-E.T. awareness, I hereby ask that your staff conduct a prompt, diligent search within the N. H. House for the "brief's" current location - and that you send me a photocopy of the located document. As you view Mr. McElroy's videographed announcement, you'll no doubt conclude, as have I, that such a document in question merits careful, sustained protection, preservation, and discussion for future generations of New Hampshireites as well as, indeed, for all citizens of Earth, into perpetuity. I understand that at least one other former House representative has acknowledged (to Mr. McElroy) having seen this sought-for document. This acknowledgment leads me to presume that certain other 2003-era newcomers to your legislative body also were made privy to the historic packet of safety-awareness files referenced by Mr. McElroy. Accordingly, I ask that you coordinate the requested record search with Mr. Geremia's current representative in the House - so that he and other concerned N. H. constituents may keep regularly abreast of your progress in this public-interest effort to resolve what (and when) did Eisenhower know about the worldwide visitation by extraterrestrial astronauts. Please process this letter as a formal citizen's request under terms of N. H. statute Title VI, Chapter 91-A (Access to Governmental Records and Meetings). By USPS mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter. Thank you for attending to this matter. P.S.: Should you succeed in locating the "brief" within the next few weeks, it certainly would become valuable in the public-education campaign now under way by proponents of the August 10, 2010, direct-ballot initiative to establish and operate in the city of Denver, Colorado, an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission (see the web site of http://www.extracampaign.org ). LARRY W. BRYANT Director, Washington, D. C., Office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy Copies furnished to: Peter R. Geremia Jeff Peckman Lewis Kannon
Recently, a UFOlogical colleague of mine - let's call him Carl - e-mailed me with this plaintive response to the ongoing saga of former New Hampshire state House representative Henry W. McElroy, Jr. (see Items 2.62 and 2.67): "I'd feel better about his credibility if he would sit for a no-holds-barred Q. & A. with the media - or, at the very least, over the web, maybe on CTC [Coast-to-Coast AM's syndicated, late-night radio program] or some such show taking calls. In the world of UFOlogy, little is as it seems." You'll of course find echoes of Carl's sentiment among some other veteran researchers grown weary (and leery) of UFO history's crying-wolf insiders ranging from the late Bill Cooper to the so-called Project SERPO proponents. At this point, it seems that the only recourse we have is to keep asking questions (and questioning the answers). Fair enough, Mr. McElroy - right? Accordingly, at McElroy's invitation via his intermediary, I recently e-mailed him a list of six questions. Below, I'm posting his answers, along with my pertinent comments in brackets. I leave it to you as to how to rate his account thus far on, say, a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the highest level of credibility for such a piece of testimonial evidence; and 10 signifying the least acceptable piece). ==THE QUESTIONS, THE ANSWERS, AND MY COMMENTS == (1) What percentage of confidence do you have that the Ike UFO-E.T. "brief" you'd observed while on duty at the New Hampshire state House of Representatives circa 2003 was an official government document? 100% [Note that, for whatever reason, McElroy foregoes this opportunity to give us a detailed rationale for his certitude.] (2) If a U. S. congressional committee were to hold a series of open hearings on the matter of UFO-E.T. reality, would you be willing to testify, under oath, before that committee? No. [Again no explanation offered. Does this absence mean he also would resist a SUBPOENA compelling his delivery of testimony before said committee? How many of the other witnesses to the same document back in the N. H. legislature in 2003-04 also would resist compliance with the subpoena? Are they now putting their heads together to form a bloc of resistance to further exposure of the "brief"?] (3) During your inspection of the "brief," did you notice any security classification stamped/imprinted thereon (e.g., SECRET)? What kind of federal security clearance (if any) did you possess (and why) as a member of the N. H. House's Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs? My memory serves me that it was an official Memorandum to President Eisenhower. I do not remember the presence or absence of any security stamps. No federal security clearance required. [I suppose I should've asked (as some persons now are asking): Why didn't he photocopy the document in question for later analysis/preservation/dissemination? Also: would he now be willing to undergo a polygraph exam as to the veracity of his account? (Such examination remains customary among certain federal agencies charged with monitoring the associations and conduct of their sensitively assigned personnel.)] (4) Would you be willing to be interviewed by such renowned radio-talk show hosts as Jerry Pippin (of http://www.jerrypippin.com ) as to your pre-representative education/employment background and as to your motivation, timing, methodology, and prospects for this smoking-gun disclosure of UFO-E.T. reality? (Please explain your answer.) No. I have nothing more to say on this topic that can’t be gleaned from viewing of the video, the script, and President Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Speech. Insightful studies should also be done of what has gone on before us. This would include, but not [be] limited to, what a host of our own American, earth-based Astronauts have said about the existence of off-world Astronauts. Then, integrate this with what twelve other sovereign countries have released in their extraterrestrial (off-world) Astronaut-related files. [Another missed opportunity to clarify and solidify the public record here - and to put his account into palatable perspective from the point of view of its human-interest value.] (5) If you could redo any aspect of your pivotal disclosure effort, what would that be - and why? No “redo” required. [Perhaps he needs more time to ponder this question.] (6) What suggestions do you have as to how certain UFO-E.T. researchers worldwide can help determine the document's whereabouts and investigate its authenticity/provenience? I do not want to be so presumptive as to suggest that such a distinguished body of researchers on this topic do anything. One last point is that we are speaking of the fact that “Truth Will Come Out.” This reminds me of the following quote which I remember from a story which went something like this: The noises around us make it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even if it’s just a whisper . . . when it’s telling the truth. [By this critique, I mean not to disparage Mr. McElroy's integrity, record of public service, or passion for UFO-E.T. truth. With his testimony, we stand at a crossroads, wondering which way to turn in what seems to be an eternal, thankless quest in the public interest. Thank, YOU, sir, for trying to plant a beacon for us.] http://ufoview.posterous.com
[LWB note: In recent days, a communications team in Hampton, Va., has completed its video documentary of a retired state legislator's having observed, while in office, a one-page "brief" addressed to president Eisenhower, in which unknown executive-branch officials lay out the case for the benign presence of extraterrestrial visitors. Realizing the worldwide implications of the 70-year-old retiree's account, the team has posted it upon . Below, you'll find the team's transcript of the videographed statement. Meantime, one would hope that the witness's statement (which in, say, a grand-jury setting would carry substantial evidentiary weight) will encourage other former state legislators to come forward with their own direct knowledge of the historic document in question. UPDATE: On May 12, 2010, Art Campbell, the foremost researcher into the Eisenhower UFO-E.T. saga, e-mailed me to invite readers to examine the fruits of his labor: "Great announcement [re McElroy's statement]. You may release this data about what we believe was the second meeting (in 1955) between Ike and the ETs . One entire story is now on the internet, done for 'Filers Files' in 2007. It is a seven-part series on http://www.ufocrashbook.com (click on 'I like Ike' ). Manuel Kirklin, the [former] Holloman [AFB] airman that came forward on this, and I presented the material at the 2009 X- Conference in Gaithersburg, Md. A Danish film crew filmed the presentation, which is on line - Google: Eisenhower Kirklin Campbell Holloman, to see it. We have dates open this spring and summer for any group wanting a fascinating conference program. If interested, contact Art Campbell: Artc-at-connpoint.net."]
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ == TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEOGRAPHED STATEMENT FROM THE HONORABLE HENRY W. MCELROY, JR. - FORMER REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE LEGISLATURE (MAY 8, 2010) Hello, I’m speaking with you from Fort Monroe, Virginia. We’re also known as The Gateway to Freedom. We sit right next to a little town called Phoebus, Virginia. Interestingly, they call themselves The Gateway to the New World. Phoebus sits inside of Hampton, Virginia, whose motto is First from the Sea, First to the Stars. My name is Henry McElroy, Jr., a retiring, former State Representative from New Hampshire. Thank you for your attention to this brief message concerning the world’s interaction with both earth-based and off-world astronauts. The reason I am making this announcement is in the hopes of encouraging better perspective to all who explore the universe. Therefore, as a result, making a more valuable contribution to humanity, for the benefit of all faiths, all races, and all nations. Another reason I am here today is because I believe in the foundational wisdom of our nation, which was laid down by our founding fathers, and because we know that highly advanced knowledge and information can assist human beings in solving various problems both in current times, and in our future. When I was in the New Hampshire State Legislature, I served on the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee. It was, apparently, important that as a Representative of the Sovereign People who had elected me to this Honorable Office, that I be updated on a large number of topics related to the affairs of our People, and our Nation. As I understood it, some of those ongoing topics had been examined and categorized as Federal, State, Local development, and security matters. These documents related to various topics, some of which spanned decades of our nation’s history. One of those recurring topics is the reason I am addressing you this evening. I would like to submit to our nation my personal testimony of one document related to one of these ongoing topics which I saw while in office, serving on the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee. The document I saw was an official brief to President Eisenhower. To the best of my memory, this brief was pervaded with a sense of hope, and it informed President Eisenhower of the continued presence of extraterrestrial beings here in the United States of America. The brief seemed to indicate that a meeting between the President and some of these visitors could be arranged as appropriate if desired. The tone of the brief indicated to me that there was no need for concern, since these visitors were, in no way, causing any harm, or had any intentions whatsoever, of causing any disruption then, or in the future. While I can’t verify the times or places or that any meeting or meetings occurred directly between Eisenhower and these visitors - because of his optimism in his farewell address in 1961, I personally believe that Eisenhower did, indeed, meet with these extraterrestrial, off world astronauts. I hope my personal testimony will aid the nation in its quest for continued enlightenment. I am honored to follow in the footsteps of those who have come forward with their personal testimonies - those who deserve the admiration of the American people for sharing their accounts publicly, in an effort to elevate our knowledge to a higher understanding of our existence. People such as: Former astronauts (John Glenn, Edgar Mitchell, Gordon Cooper, and Buzz Aldrin); Former presidents (Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter); Captain Bill Uhouse of the United States Marine Corps; Lt. Col. John Williams of the United States Air Force; Col. Phillip Corso, Sr. of the United States Army; Commander Graham Bethune of the United States Navy; Along with: David Hamilton of the Department of Energy; Donna Hare of NASA; and James Kopf of the National Security Agency. I would also like to thank the countries of: France, Brazil, Britain, Russia, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand; and, our neighbor to the north: Canada; Uruguay, and Australia - for also opening their files to the citizens of their countries, and allowing them access to information that is so very important to the evolution of humanity. I thank you for allowing me this opportunity to have a small part in doing the same, by sharing the information I have given you today. Thank you very much, and I’d like to thank our communications crew for helping us make this happen today. And, I’d also like to authorize distribution of this video for anyone who wants to use it for educational purposes. Thank you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://ufoview.posterous.com
TO: Delores M. Nelson Freedom-of-Information Coordinator U. S. Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 20505 FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: May 11, 2010 1. Reference: The enclosed copy of my May 30, 2009, letter to the CIA inspector general (Subject: Request for an I. G. Investigation into Reported CIA Misconduct), by which I request that the CIA inspector general's office "mount, as soon as possible, a comprehensive investigation into the CIA personnel's interference with whistleblower Callahan's right to protect/manage FAA-derived evidence of UFO-E.T. reality." 2. Since the I. G. office apparently has decided to ignore my May 30, 2009, letter, I hereby submit this letter (No. 2.68) as an FOIA request that you send me a copy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to the requests embodied within my May 30, 2009, letter. 3. Besides conducting a responsive-records search within your own FOIA office (re my appeal letter to you of Oct. 3, 2008 (housed in the Callahan case file - No. F-2008-01781), please focus your search on the I. G. office, on the public/congressional affairs offices, and on the general counsel's office. I ask that your production of records include the following material: correspondence (including e-mail messages with their attachments, and faxed letters/notes with their enclosures); minutes of meetings; complaint case-file contents; memoranda for record; memoranda of telephone conversations; briefing papers/charts/graphics; interagency coordination documents; action-tasking documents; information-transmittal slips; congressionally referred material; policy statements; I. G. complaint logs; personnel-interview reports; executive-decision memoranda; historian's narratives/notes; and news-media queries. 4. For the purpose of your granting me full waiver of all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling this request, please honor my FOIA-requester status as a representative of the news media. 5. By USPS mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter. LARRY W. BRYANT Columnist for UFO Magazine Copies furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine Hon. James Webb, U. S. Senate _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://ufoview.posterous.com
A military contractor recently contacted me to share her episode of having met a retired northeast-state legislator who, during his term in office, became privy to a one-page "brief" summarizing Pres. Eisenhower's personal knowledge of UFO-E.T. reality. As of today, though, the ex-solon has been unsuccessful in his effort to track down the "brief's" current location. Note: he recently explained that the controversial "Eisenhower Briefing Document" posted upon the web site of http://www.majesticdocuments.com is NOT the same as the paper he had viewed. In supporting her confidant's quest for the "brief's" current whereabouts, the contractor has decided to produce a YouTube.com video profile of the man's account. Meantime, I'm chiming in to this case by posting the online classified advertisement at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad2790309.htm (titled "What Did Ike Know - and When Did He Know It - about UFO-E.T. Reality?"). The ex-representative says he knows at least one former legislative colleague who recalls having seen the paper in question. How many others can (and will) corroborate the account? Maybe the forthcoming You-Tubed account will sway them to add their own evidence to the record. http://ufoview.posterous.com
TO: Secretary of the Army ATTN: General Counsel Room 3C-546 - 104 Army Pentagon Washington, DC 20310-0104 FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: May 3, 2010 1. Reference: Your paralegal Lisa Thomas's below-quoted April 30, 2010, e-mail message to me, in which she endorses the April 7, 2010, "no records" determination of Fort Bragg FOIA officials as regards the 1980s UFO-E.T. contact case at Fort Bragg, N. C. (USASOC FOIA Case No. 10-052). 2. Based on recently submitted whistleblower-derived evidence of this monumental event in question (including some "leaked" photographic material), someone in the U. S. Army records-management community knows (or should know) the current whereabouts of the records sought by my FOIA request of March 11, 2010. By their very nature, these records (in professional archivists' parlance, "essential evidence") constitute PERMANENT records. Accordingly, so long as they exist, permanent records remain traceable as to their current location and chain of custody; if the ones in question have undergone destruction, then a record of that disposition must exist. To date, no Army officials have provided me such dispositional proof of the sought-for records' fate. And no Army officials have provided me specific, direct evidence of their records-search/retrieval efforts (if any) at the level of external-to-Bragg records-holding areas and other archival centers. In effect, this non-provision constitutes denial of my FOIA request -- and thereby evokes my appeal action. 3. As part of your response to this appeal, please send to the Army's entire records-management community an electronic ALERT MESSAGE announcing my quest for the records in question and soliciting that community's prompt search/retrieval assistance. Your failure to take this step toward assuring the records' archival preservation and public accessibility would signal to certain congressional committees the need to question, via subpoena, your responsiveness in this matter. It also would energize my need to seek judicial review of any denial of this appeal. 4. By USPS mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted appeal letter. LARRY W. BRYANT Copies furnished to: Hon. James Webb, U. S. Senate Editor, UFO Magazine Lewis Kannon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
== TEXT OF MS. THOMAS's APRIL 30, 2010, E-MAIL MESSAGE TO L.W.B. == from Thomas, Lisa Ms CIV US USA OTJAG <Lisa.thomas16@us.army.mil> to overtci@cavtel.net date Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:28 AM subject FOIA REQUEST (UNCLASSIFIED) mailed-by us.army.mil signed-by us.army.mil hide details Apr 30 (3 days ago) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Dear Mr. Bryant, This is in response to your FOIA request of March 3, 2010. Attached is the USASPC response letter to you in which that office states it has no records responsive to your FOIA request. You may appeal this determination within sixty days of this email to the Secretary of the Army, Attention: Office of the General Counsel, Room 3C546, 104 Army Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20310-0104. Sincerely, Lisa Thomas Paralegal Specialist Office of The Judge Advocate General Ethics, Legislation, And Government Information Practices 1777 Kent Street Rosslyn, Virginia 22209 703-588-6783 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://ufoview.posterous.com
