I am on the fence about the intelligence community’s attitude toward the general public, which is sort of like “you can’t handle the truth”, when it comes to “UFOs”. Given the mass public attitudes about so many things, I am not convinced the intelligence community is wrong in protecting what they know about “UFOs”. I think they may be wrong as far as keeping anything from the Presidents.
Take another look at who is there at this time.
Most folks in the “intelligence community” have no clue about UFOs—so there is nothing for them to hide.
One high ranking CIA contactee tells his story in these podcasts—his agency bosses were as clueless as everybody else:
https://podbay.fm/p/aliens-and-artists/e/1645119331
https://podbay.fm/p/aliens-and-artists/e/1647656683
I am convinced the “Majestic 12” or similar organization has been keeping the secrets, recovering the craft etal—and they are senior folks from different parts of government, private contractors, scientists etc.
They may use highly compartmentalized “teams” from the CIA and other agencies to perform a variety of tasks—but imho 99% of the CIA employees are out of the loop.
There are also witness claims that there is a secret space program that is run by corporations.
If you want to chase down that rabbit hole here is the “intro” video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t564HRXeS6o