By Robbie
Graham
CIA VETERAN: "100% GUARANTEED... ROSWELL HAPPENED! THERE WAS A CRAFT... ABSOLUTELY CADAVERS."
Scroll down for Chase Brandon Coast to Coast AM interview...
Chase Brandon, a thirty-five year
veteran of the CIA, will tonight appear as a guest on Coast to Coast AM with John B.
Wells. Many listeners will no doubt be unfamiliar with Brandon and his career
with the CIA, but his name has passed my lips literally thousands of times over
the past several years.
Brandon spent twenty-five years in the
Agency’s elite Clandestine Service as an undercover, covert operations officer.
His foreign assignments involved international terrorism, counterinsurgency,
global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He was also an Agency
foreign political affairs analyst, Presidential briefer to Bill Clinton and an
instructor in paramilitary and espionage tactics at multiple secret CIA training
camps.
Brandon is perhaps best known as the
CIA's former Entertainment Liaison Officer - a position that required him to
establish working relationships with many of the biggest names in Hollywood and
to provide advice to filmmakers on matters of "accuracy and authenticity" with
regard to the CIA's image onscreen. He was - though he prefers to phrase it more
sympathetically - the CIA's chief frontline propagandist in Hollywood. He
advised on countless films and TV series - often uncredited - quietly shaping
scripts, characters and concepts.
As a great deal of my academic research
has been focused on cinematic propaganda efforts, Brandon's activities in
Hollywood naturally have been of considerable interest to me and I have spent
countless hours discussing with colleagues and writing about the CIA's role in
Hollywood and the influence wielded by Chase Brandon and other CIA advisors in
the entertainment industry.
The CIA/Hollywood relationship is a
sordid one, and it predates the start of the Agency's "official" involvement in
Tinseltown by four decades. You can read about this relationship in Professor
Tricia Jenkins' excellent new book, The CIA in Hollywood: How
the Agency Shapes film and Television, and I'll be exploring the
CIA/Hollywood symbiosis in great detail in the context of the UFO phenomenon in
my forthcoming book, Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in
Hollywood's UFO Movies.
With Chase Brandon's credentials in
mind, the UFO community is set to engage in furious debate about this CIA man's
first novel, which is now on sale and is titled The Cryptos
Conundrum. It
is a "fictional" book dealing with the UFO/ET issue, specifically with the
Roswell crash and cover-up. This marks the first time ever that any retired CIA
operative has written a book (presented either as fact or fiction) on the UFO
topic that has received the Agency's official stamp of approval. On that basis
alone, it's a must-read.
On the first page of the book, a bold,
underlined notice reads:
This
material has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent the disclosure of classified
information.
But, of course, classified information
can't technically be disclosed if it is presented as fiction. Brandon is
gleefully aware of this, and selects as his first quote of the book a musing by
Francis Bacon:
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes
needs fiction to make it plausible."
I've read Brandon's novel. Obviously,
it's intriguing, to say the least, and Brandon clearly wants it to be seen to
contain many truths, despite its "fiction" label. Does Brandon have 'inside'
information on UFOs? It is my assessment that, yes, probably he does.
Some. The circles he's walked in during his career would almost certainly
have made him privy to UFO-related chatter; to whispers
and suggestions, if not hard evidence. This is not to say the
information Brandon might have is true. What he 'knows' is very likely based on
what he's been told, not on what he's seen. More than anything, what readers
should remember when reading Brandon's tantalising book is that the author is a
trained expert in propaganda and psychological warfare. Buy his book, then, but
don't buy into it.
