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| Dorothy Kilgallen |
Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever.
Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar.
Not only is UFO research potentially dangerous but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971 the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'
Binder
had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer
researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses who had died in the
previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder.
We
will have occasion to refer to many of these cases but first let us
take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among
present day researchers.
Spider Web of Causes
What
we may have IS a concatenation, a spider web, of interweaving threads
which are causal and often, in fact, deadly. One thread is the
activities of the United States (and other) intelligence agencies. Another thread
is possible extraterrestrial involvement.
A
third thread is the involvement of certain PSI-tech think tanks and
private PSI/PK practitioners including negative occultists.
A possible
fourth thread is highly reactionary religious cults which feel they are
carrying out the will of God.
It is more than likely that one or more or
all of the above agencies are responsible in whole or in part for many
of the deaths from the recent past which have already been mentioned
and many of those remaining cases from the present to the more distant
past, some of which we will now explore.
Dorothy Kilgallen
Dorothy
Kilgallen was the most famous syndicated woman journalist of her day.
Stationed in England in 1954 and 1955, and privy to the highest levels of
English society and its secrets, she wired two unusual dispatches which
may have contributed to her death.
The
first, sent in February 1954, mentioned a "special hush-hush meeting of
the world's military heads" scheduled to take place the following
summer.
The
1955 dispatch, which barely preceded her death from an alleged overdose
of sleeping pills and alcohol (a la Marilyn Monroe), quoted an unnamed
British official of cabinet rank,
`We believe, on the basis of our
inquiry thus far, that saucers were staffed by small men probably under
four feet tall. It's frightening, but there is no denying the flying
saucers come from another planet.'
Whatever the source (rumored to be
the Earl of Mountbatten), this kind of leak in the atmosphere of the
mid- 50s was an unacceptable leak.
It
is well to recall that the secret Central intelligence Agency-orchestrated Robertson Panel had
met in 1953 and issued the Robertson Report. Briefly summarized, this
document-and the attitudes reflected there - represented a new hard-line
attitude to covering up all significant UFO phenomena.
The year 1953 and the meeting of the Robertson Panel truly initiated the UFO coverup as we know it today, with a few extra dollops having been added.
Did Dorothy Kilgallen actually commit accidental suicide? There appears to be an excellent chance she had help.
