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Is that JFK memo to the CIA about UFOs real?
ABC News ^ | 4/21/11 | Natalie Wolchover

Posted on 03/20/2025 8:45:09 AM PDT by hardspunned

A story that combines UFO cover-ups with the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a gold mine for conspiracy theorists. And that's just what author William Lester says he uncovered while conducting research for a new book on Kennedy: a memo written by JFK and addressed to the CIA in which the president requests confidential information about UFOs.

In the never-before-seen, top secret memo supposedly written on Nov. 12, 1963, the president ordered the CIA director to organize the agency's intelligence files relating to UFOs, and to debrief him on all "unknowns" by the following February. Ten days later, Kennedy was assassinated.

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I don’t remember seeing this at the time. ABC News back then was a little more credible than the Weekly World News. I read all the Kennedy/aliens headlines in the grocery store check out lane for decades but never saw this.

Did the aliens do the hit?

1 posted on 03/20/2025 8:45:09 AM PDT by hardspunned
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Given that both sides in the Cold War were trying out new and secret aircraft, it’s no surprise the military on each side would be running into “unidentified flying objects.” That’s not evidence for mysterious space aliens. It’s an expected result of Cold War efforts and technological advances. Throw in some confusion, weather phenomena, over-excited or otherwise exaggerated eyewitness reports and so on, and you get a great body of nonsense about UFOs.


2 posted on 03/20/2025 8:49:14 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_incident

The Air Force said it was “temperature inversion”.

Lol.


3 posted on 03/20/2025 8:52:17 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

I’m waiting to hear if this memo was found in the just-released JFK files.


4 posted on 03/20/2025 8:56:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux

Agreed—even though there are some Freepers in deep denial the JFK files have proven to be a treasure trove so far.


5 posted on 03/20/2025 8:57:18 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

If the memo is real, it sounds like a very wise move by Kennedy as you’ve outlined. Another odd coincidence for sure. Responding to an attack from outer space was about the only thing we could agree on ‘63.


6 posted on 03/20/2025 8:58:45 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: cgbg

Have you looked at any of the JFK docs yet? I’ve been thinking about it, but 2,000 plus pdfs is more than a few hours of work.


7 posted on 03/20/2025 8:59:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: EnderWiggin1970

By definition, no UFO can be explained, because if they could explain it, it wouldn’t be ‘unidentified’, therefore not a UFO.


8 posted on 03/20/2025 9:09:00 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: EnderWiggin1970
Throw in some confusion, weather phenomena, over-excited or otherwise exaggerated eyewitness reports and so on, and you get a great body of nonsense about UFOs.

You say that because you obviously have never seen one unlike me. Easy to call it all nonsense if you've never been an eye witness.

9 posted on 03/20/2025 9:09:19 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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Repo Men
Miller: There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. [In] South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go, they just, like, disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something. There had to be a time when there was no people, right? Well where did all these people come from, huh? I'll tell you where. The future. And where did all these people disappear to? [Otto: The past?] That's right! And how did they get there? Flying saucers. Which are really..? Yeah, you got it, time machines. I think a lot about this kind of stuff.
10 posted on 03/20/2025 9:09:35 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: RoosterRedux

I have been reading articles only....


11 posted on 03/20/2025 9:10:33 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: hardspunned

Perhaps.


12 posted on 03/20/2025 9:11:05 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Who was the second shooter? Where was the second shooter?


13 posted on 03/20/2025 9:12:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Imho we still have not nailed down the first shooter—now that we know with metaphysical certainty that the Warren Commission Report was toxic trash.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4305368/posts

The entire Warren Commission narrative just got crushed.


14 posted on 03/20/2025 9:19:13 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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62 years? It took 62 years for the government to show the public what the CIA wants the public to see! 80000+ pages of classified bull$hit that answered absolutely nothing!


15 posted on 03/20/2025 9:21:58 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: hardspunned

This is why the coverup is so extensive. JFK and MLK were going to reveal the truth about the plan to use UFOs to fake the moon landing, but Epstein intervened and ...


16 posted on 03/20/2025 9:22:58 AM PDT by edwinland
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I disagree. We got a very revealing look at how completely rogue the CIA was back then. We saw exactly how they ran USAID color revolutions long before USAID was passed. We also saw how deeply imbedded MOSSAD and its agents were in the CIA.

Again, this story from 14 years ago has nothing to with what was released this week.


17 posted on 03/20/2025 9:26:45 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: The Louiswu

Harry Dean Stanton was magnificent in that movie!


18 posted on 03/20/2025 9:29:09 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: BenLurkin

Can aliens levitate? They could have been anywhere in, around or above the plaza.


19 posted on 03/20/2025 9:30:45 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: eeriegeno

Wrong.

Just one example—one simple memo just demolished the Warren Report:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4305368/posts


20 posted on 03/20/2025 9:31:14 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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