KGB’s Secret Files. UFO (part 2)

Psychic games were not the only type of psychological warfare played by the world powers throughout the tumultuous 20th century. Following the Tunguska incident in 1908 (the fall of a mysterious object in Siberia described in the previous post), rampant waves of speculation were cast around what the incident could bring. But it was not until the Roswell incident in 1947 that the agencies started using this information as a tool for a cultural and political manipulation. After Perestroika and the fall of the Communist bloc, the evidence of a paranormal warfare was declassified by both the eastern and western sides. From sightings, to abductions, to abandoned aircraft and alien corpses footage, all kinds of stories came out to light spurring a flurry of speculation.

KGB military coverage of a UFO Crash

Believers have shown that many sightings registered during the sixties, especially in the northern zones of the Soviet Union, match the information provided by the recently declassified material. Some of these testimonies also talk about abductions. Stories of people being captured by extraterrestrials to be used as some kind of experiment or information tool. One of the hypotheses claims that the very same agencies that experiment with psychic warfare are the ones that carry out this mysterious kidnappings. To this day, no one officially knows.

Other released footage shows –what appears to be– extraterrestrial bodies being examined, along with military coverage of weird aircraft abandoned in forests, and so on. Since the dissolution of the USSR and the release of these documents, there has been much theory and speculation, fake material, and people trying to take advantage of the climate of the time. Former agents have come forward, declassified video is traded in mass in paranormal black markets, an image of the Soviet Union’s activities has been colorfully painted: doubles agents, blackmailing, smuggling, etc.

Autopsy of an ET body by Soviet doctors

Much of the science fiction imagery we see today has been inspired by these findings. But this is not only a thing of imaginations. Many ufologists still believe that the military and commercial technology that exists today comes from whatever was found and covered in the Roswell event (or in Tunguska event, for that matter). If you want to take a deeper look on the matter and actually see some of these videos, watch the documentary below, made on the 1990s. But beware, because you will find more questions than answers. We guarantee so.

KGB’s Secret Files (part 1)

One of the most interesting chapters of the Cold War is still an active subject of investigation. After the end of WWII, the security and intelligence agencies of both the USA and the USSR, adopted new inventive methods to gather information from the other side, to show the rest of the world about their leadership and power. On the Russian side, Stalin transformed the traditional Soviet agencies that Lenin had created to control the government, into highly sophisticated espionage laboratories. One of these secret divisions was dedicated to paranormal development studies and experiments.

KGB Headquarters in the 1970s

In 1962, the US embassy in Moscow was plagued by a series of mysterious deaths and illnesses. The CIA’s investigation found microwave emissions coming from the building across the street of the embassy. According to legend, the agents who emitted these rays were more interested in mind control than cancer. This incident came to be known as The Moscow Signal. Considering Stalin’s oppression of psychic and occult belief systems, these experiments marked a change in the regime. They would try anything to get ahead. Stalin called in the famous psychic Wolf Messing, known for his accurate predictions. In order to test Messing’s abilities, he was told to rob a bank using only his mental powers. He proceeded to hypnotize one of the bank’s cashiers, who withdrew the money for him.

Another well-known KGB case was Nina Kulagina, who specialized in psychokinesis, the power to move objects without touching them. Her biggest test was to stop a frog’s heart, in which she succeeded and was quickly asked to run the same experiment with a person. She had to be stopped before actually giving someone a stroke. When she retired, ironically because of a heart condition, Kulagina was replaced by Alla Vinogradova, under similar tests. The first objectives were not military, but rather part of the psychological warfare to prove the Soviet’s advantages over the west. For instance, the chess player Anatoli Karpov allegedly won the famous Karpov-Korchnoi match with mental aid from Dr. Zuka. There were also real programs secretly dedicated to attack by psychic means. Legendarily, zombie agents were induced to a hypnotic state to carry out these attacks without even knowing so. Cases like the attempted assasination of Pope John Paul II or the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and even President JFK himself, were investigated though never proven to be related. This is partly related in the novel The Manchurian Candidate.

Nina Kulegina performing a telekinetic act

But this institutional belief in paranormal power did not start with the Soviet Union. Look at historical figures like Rasputin, who played a fundamental role as the Tsar’s closest counselor. Rasputin’s famous occult powers supposedly came from outer space after he witnessed the fall of a mysterious object in 1908 in the middle of a Siberian forest. The event was known as The Tunguska event. Well, something very similar happened in 1968 and of course the KGB took control of the investigation and kept it secret for the technological advantages that its outcome might suppose. After this, psychics like Karl Nicholaev demonstrated their remote viewing powers in response to what American submarines were accomplishing with the SRI research. It was not an easy race.

Photograph of Tunguska days after the explosion

More examples can be brought and found, but it is very hard to be certain about anything, even as key intelligence documents were released after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Cold War was masked with so many illusions of grandeur and control that the line between propaganda and reality is impossible to ascertain. But they may very well be continuing psychic warfare in our contemporary climate and if they succeed we will probably never find out.

The elaboration of this post was based on the following documentary:

Marianna Baker author “Red Snow, Gold Clouds”.

The Mafiya and Latin America

Ancient knowledge isn’t always too old to matter. Here’s something fresh, related to the contemporary face of crime: arms and drugs. As we all know, mafias have always existed in different ways. Easy but not-so-clean money. Huge but risky rewards. In the globalized era, the Russian mafias have taken control of a large portion of the arms market, and regularly strike lucrative deals with drug dealers and smugglers. Where exactly? Latin America, mostly. And that includes my country, Colombia, alongside places like Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, where the most infamous criminal structures around drugs production were easily built in a few decades with the help of cheap and good arms.

Submarine used for drug traficking found in the Colombian rainforest

Due to the emergency politics of Perestroika developed by Gorbachev in a desperate attempt to save the Soviet Union, it became easier to access and “legalize” commercial activities with the outside world. Thus, the preexisting clandestine business of everything valuable (not just arms), grew larger each day. After the definitive fall of the Union it became even easier to move the operational centers abroad and negotiate largely. The people building this commerce became known as the New Russians, often compared with the Italian mafia of the 1920s, but worldwide.

M. Gorbachev and G.H.W. Bush in the times of Perestroika

Drug prices in the former Soviet countries, especially Russia, skyrocketed to an unthinkable level, turning the narcos’ attention towards the east. And the ongoing Colombian civil war needed better arms to sustain itself. The perfect platform for the perfect deal. Each exchange would take away thousands of tons of cocaine (and some others) to Moscow or even Kiev through the Vladivostok-Siberian route, for instance. This could happen monthly, and bring shiploads of Kalashnikov rifles, grenades, and even instructions to build small submarines, to a small Atlantic port like Turbo, or even through the Pacific in places like Buenaventura. And the deals were closed with all sides of the war, from communist guerrillas like FARC to right-wing paramilitary or vigilante groups.

FARC rebels with AK-47 rifles

And we are only talking about Colombia here, let alone the rest of the continent. The Caribbean was perfect for money laundry, then Argentina and Uruguay and really every country in the continent was bombarded with all kinds of smuggling. It was crime paradise. How the operations actually worked make a topic for a whole post. Names, places, dates, amounts, and what has happened in the last two decades, might be detailed later on. In the pages of the novel Red Snow, Gold Clouds by Marianna Baker, you’ll find out about an intriguing story that involves all this and much more.

Main sources:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/russian_mafia/70095.stm

http://www.monografias.com/trabajos14/mafia-rusa/mafia-rusa.shtml

http://www.semana.com/especiales/articulo/la-conexion-colombo-rusa/35416-3

http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/us-colombia-operation-uncovers-farc-eln-links-to-russian-mafia

Operation Highjump Antarctica

When I started research for my second book “Truth Games” I stumbled upon some fascinating facts.

Operation Highjump has become a topic among UFO conspiracy theorists, who claim it was a covert US military operation to conquer alleged secret underground Nazi facilities in Antarctica and capture the German Vril flying discs, or Thule mercury-powered spaceship prototypes. This has always been denied by the US Military

In 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led 4,000 military troops from the U.S., Britain, and Australia in an invasion of Antarctica called “Operation Highjump”, and at least one follow-up expedition.

Operation “High Jump”, which was, basically an invasion of the Antarctic, consisted of three Naval battle groups, which departed Norfolk, VA, on 2 December 1946. They were led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s command ship, the ice-breaker “Northwind,” and consisted of the catapult ship “Pine Island,” the destroyer “Brownsen,” the aircraft-carrier “Phillipines Sea,” the U.S. submarine “Sennet,” two support vessels “Yankee” and “Merrick,” and two tankers “Canisted” and “Capacan,” the destroyer “Henderson” and a floatplane ship “Currituck.”

A British-Norwegian force and a Russian force, and some Australian and Canadian forces were also involved.

But new declassified pictures from Operation Highjump show some very odd details that do not fit in with the official story.

Just before the end of World War II two German provision U-boats, U-530 and U-977, were launched from a port on the Baltic Sea following a steady stream of supplies that was carried out throughout the closing stages of the war. Reportedly they took with them members of the antigravity-disc research and development teams carrying Notes, Drawings And Designs For German Flying Discs. The last of the most vital disc components were on these vessels.

Much of the technology and hardware that the Allies were looking for concerning the Nazi’s Secret Weapons program had been transported to the base during the war. This included the notes and drawings for the latest saucer or aerial disc designs and designs for the gigantic underground complexes and living accommodations based on the remarkable underground factories of Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains. The two U-boats duly reached the new land of Neu-Schwabenland in Antarctica, where they unloaded everything. They then arrived in Argentina several months later, minus the original cargo and most of the crew.

Rumors began to circulate that even though Germany had been defeated, a selection of military personnel and scientists had fled the fatherland as Allied troops swept across mainland Europe and established themselves at a base on Antarctica from where they continued to develop advanced aircraft based on extraterrestrial technologies.

The fact is that there was plenty of evidence, at the time, to indicate that as late as 1947, elements of the Kriegsmarine, or German Navy, were still very much active in the South Atlantic, operating either out of South America or some base, previously unsuspected, in the Antarctic. Many stories were circulating at the time…

Upon the Navy’s return, all information was classified ‘top-secret’, and the only person to being talking about the mission, the Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, was quickly institutionalized in Bethesda Naval Hospital psychiatric ward, and later died from a suspicious suicide.

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump

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Roerich Universe

Few people in history can project such admiration as the renaissance men. Born in 1874 in Saint Petersburg, Nicholai Roerich was a multidisciplinary artist, scientist, philosopher and mystic; the leading scholar of his time. Since his youth, people had noted his uncommon habits. He loved to collect objects, read adventure books. He even created his own botanical garden to draw and study plants. He took part in archaeological expeditions with famous scientists. His interests and creativity were extraordinary yet he eventually entered law school at the bequest of his father, a notary who was skeptical of art and science’s profitability. Nicholai, however, persuaded his father to let him study both law and the arts, which he completed with remarkable dedication and passion in two great universities.

Helena Roerich

Roerich catalogued and studied all the important art works of Russia and became the president of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. He was not just a studious academic of art (and architecture), he was also a very talented and prolific painter. But it doesn’t stop there. Roerich was a stage designer, a ceramist and a writer. He even managed to maintain a life-long practice of archaeology. But the story of his life would be incomplete without his true soul mate, Helena, an accomplished writer, philosopher, and the eternal inspiration for his work. Nicholai and Helena got married in 1901. They grew, hand in hand, in all aspects of life. Together, they developed an interest in the complexity of the ethics, thought and belief systems of Indian tradition. Together, they studied the great teachings of the Theosophists.

After the victory of the Revolution, the Roerichs (now with two sons) became political activists in defense of art and heritage, without getting involved with in any party. He even rejected a position offered by the Soviet ministry. However, illness forced Nicholas and his family to step down from their activism and migrate to Finland. Later, in 1919, they moved to England, where they became close friends with prominent figures of the intellectual and spiritual spheres of the time, along with the most important political leaders in India. It was then that they initiated their own school of thought that intended to encompass their understanding of the cosmic universe. They called it: Agni Yoga.

Woman holding the International Banner of Peace after the ‘Roerich Pact’

After settling in the United States for a couple of years, the Roeriks embarked themselves in two revealing expeditions in search of the genuine wisdom of the eastern world. They traveled through Mongolia, China and the Tibet, India and later Manchuria. According to some, it was during this journey that they claimed to have contacted the Shambhala spiritual world (this might sound familiar to you). Roerich died in December 1947 in Naggar, India, leaving a profoundly valuable legacy with countless institutions rendering tribute to his name. His art pieces can be found in many museums in modern Russia and around the world. He was also nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his lasting teachings on unity and mutual understanding for mankind. There’s even a planet named after him, an apt metaphor of his unaccountable wisdom that might as well have come from outer space.