2001: The Birth of The CIA – And Flying Saucers

By Frank Warren frank-warren@pacbell.net 6-13-1 There’s been a lot of speculation on the irony of the “birth of the CIA” in September, of 1947, ( formerly, The Central Intelligence Group) coinciding with all the “flying saucer activity” beginning in June of that year, starting with Kenneth Arnold’s sighting over Mt Rainier to the “crashed discs” in the area of Roswell New Mexico. Some have claimed, that the sole purpose of creating the CIA was to investigate the “flying saucer” phenomenon. That, of course, is not the case. [CIG and then CIA were born primarily out of the realization of the importance of a “post-war” intelligence gathering agency, similar to it’s “wartime” predecessor, the OSS, and President Truman’s frustration with being out of the “intelligence loop,” […] Read More