JFK Assassination Linked to UFOs?
It's taken nearly 50 years, but someone has finally tied two conspiracy theories together: the JFK assassination and UFOs.
Quoting a report from AOL News, the Daily Mail said that 10 days before President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, he wrote to the head of the CIA requesting confidential documents about UFOs.
The CIA released two letters to author William Lester under a Freedom of Information Act request he made while researching his new book "A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier."
While the separate UFO and assassination conspiracy theorists will likely join forces to say that Kennedy was knocked off to prevent him from learning the truth about aliens and UFOs, Lester said there is a more rational explanation for JFK's requests for information.
In the second memo sent to the NASA administrator, Lester said Kennedy discusses a desire for cooperation with the former Soviet Union on mutual outer space activities.
"One of his concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology," Lester told AOL News.
"I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, 'Look, that's not us, we're not doing it, we're not being provocative.'"
This revelation has sparked renewed interest in the so called "burned memo" that was allegedly leaked to a UFO hunter in 1999 by a CIA agent.
The letter, which has scorch marks (hence the name), was said to be written by the CIA responding to JFK's poking around the UFO issue. Referring to Kennedy's code name "Lancer," the letter said:
As you must know, Lancer has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow... Please submit your views no later than October. Your action to this matter is critical to the continuance of the group.
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Adding new speculation to the assassination of President John F Kennedy, two documents revealed by an author researching the JFK presidency show Kennedy's interests in gaining access to UFO information.
In letters sent by President John F Kennedy to the CIA, and
revealed by author William Lester to AOL News, as reported by
The Daily Mail, Kennedy requests access to top secret information on UFO sightings, with particular interest in sightings reported over the former Soviet Union. "It is important that we make a clear distinction between the knowns and unknowns in the event the Soviets try to mistake our extended cooperation as a cover for intelligence gathering of their defense and space programs," Kennedy wrote in a memo to the director of the CIA, the subject of which was labeled "Classification review of all UFO intelligence files affecting national security." The top secret document was dated November 12, 1963. President Kennedy was
assassinated on November 22, 1963. Researching his new book,
A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier, Mr. Lester received the documents from the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act. Mr. Lester believes Kennedy's interests in the files were fueled by his desire to keep relations with the former Soviet Union on good footing. "One of his concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology," Lester told AOL News, according to the
Daily Mail report. "I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, 'Look, that's not us, we're not doing it, we're not being provocative.'" Of interest to JFK assassination and UFO conspiracy theorists alike, in a "burned memo," an undated document with scorch marks edging it, the CIA director references "Lancer," their code name for President Kennedy. "As you must know, Lancer has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow," the memo begins. UFO investigators contend that this memo may point to another motivation for the JFK assassination, and they are employing modern document dating technology to determine when this particular memo was authored.
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