[FPSPACE] July 1969 N-1 explosion

[JamesOberg@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/28/00 1:35:17 AM Central Daylight Time, 
psclark@dircon.co.uk writes:

<< I suppose that it is possible that there was a way for the intelligence
 community to "suppress" such records, but I am not convinced about this. >>

It is a fairly common technique in the intelligence community to attribute to 
a less-classified sensor or method information which was actually obtained by 
much spookier methods. Another example: in the mid-1970s, a lot of 
'revelations' (such as the location of a crashed Soviet aircraft in Zaire) 
were attributed in SECRET-level briefings to a 'remote viewing' effort, when 
in fact it turned out they came from both deep-cover on-scene personnel, and 
advancedsigint, the existence of which had to be protected. Products of the 
first KH-12 in December 1976 were, I'm told, similarly protected by 
false-origin stories.