This post was prompted by researcher u/36_39_42, whose excellent analysis of the Magenta Crash in Italy in 1933 is the key uncovering the true facts of that history changing event. The “hive-mind” of collaborative research is the one thing that will drag the UFO / UAP subject into the light.
Galeazzo Ciano, Count di Cortelazzo’ was born at Leghorn on March 18, 1903. He was the only son of Costanzo Ciano, who served with gallantry as a captain in the Italian Navy during World War I. The elder Ciano was one of those most responsible for the initial success of the Fascist movement. Promoted to the rank of admiral and ennobled immediately after Musolini rose to power, he subsequently served for many years as Minister of Communications and as President of the so-called Fascist Chamber of Deputies. Today he is best remembered for the immense fortune which he accumulated through the opportunities offered him by his controlling influence within the Fascist party and, in particular, during the years when he held office as Minister of Communications (i.e., control of the Stefani news agency, who later produced the secret telegrams of the Magenta Crash).
Galeazzo Ciano graduated in law at the University of Rome in 1925, and during his university years, which coincided with the first period of Fascism, also worked as a dramatic and art critic on a Roman daily newspaper. Strangely enough, during these years he adopted a critical attitude toward the Fascist Party, of which his father, whom he greatly revered, was already an outstanding leader. Immediately after his graduation he entered the Italian Diplomatic Service. During his first five years in the service he was stationed at Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Peking, and the Vatican City. It was at the close of this period that he married Mussolini’s daughter, Edda. Simultaneously he became an ardent Fascist. From then on, his rise was rapid. Serving briefly as Consul General at Shanghai, he was promoted in 1932 to be Minister to China. By 1933 he had again returned to Italy and, receiving an appointment as a member of the Italian Delegation to the London Economic Conference in June 1933, he was immediately thereafter made chief of Mussolini’s press office. In 1935 he was promoted to be Undersecretary of State for Press and Propaganda. Shortly thereafter he was named a member of the Fascist Grand Council. The following year, at the age of thirty-three, he was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. His diaries of his time as the Foreign Affairs Minister were well known to Mussolini, who on several occasions asked him to make sure he documented the way that Hitler and his cohort treated Italy in a subservient manner. After Mussolini’s arrest in 1943 and subsequent rescue by the notorious Nazi figure Otto Skorzeny at Grand Sasso, the diaries became a liability for Mussolini and he ordered them to be destroyed. Ciao was tricked into fleeing to Nazi Germany, who then arrested him and imprisoned him in northern Italy. The final passage in this Diary, that was written by Count Ciano in his prison cell in Verona some two weeks before his execution, is the most revealing epitaph that can be written for him. Mussolini’s own daughter Edda smuggled her husband’s diaries out of Italy in her underwear to Switzerland, where OSS agent and later Majestic Twelve leader / CIA Director Allen Dulles took possession of them through an intermediatory. We know this because OSS Cable file Dulles to Washington, State Department, 16 January 1945 states: ‘EDDA matter will hereafter be given code name ECDAR’: US, NA, RG 226, Entry 190C, Box 11. Parts of this file are indexed under the heading, ‘Personal file of Allen W. Dulles, “Edda Ciano Diaries”’. The writers believe that Dulles created this file as an afterthought, pulling together material from other files. For example all the Berne–Ciano correspondence from December 1944–May 1945 are held at: US, NA, RG 226, Entry 146, Box 215, folder 1344–1346. It is possible that Dulles intended to write about the retrieval of the diaries at some later date. In the introduction of the Ciano Diaries the editor, Hugh Gibson, states the following:
The text of the diaries is given unabridged. It will be observed that for several periods there are no entries-on account of illness, absence on military service, or other obvious reasons. In several places pages were removed from the diaries before they were turned over for photographing; this has been clearly indicated by notes in the text.
The hand of Allen Dulles was clearly at work here – the “pages removed” may relate to the Magenta Crash.
Rudolf Hess
Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess
The strange flight of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess to Scotland on May 10, 1941 in order to “negotiate peace with Britain” is well known, but the exact reasoning remains a mystery to this day. He was very close to Hitler, having served prison time with him after the failed Beer Hall Pusch in 1923. Whilst the Nazis tried to spin Hess as being totally insane, extracts from the Ciano Diaries regarding the Hess subject indicate that senior Nazi officials, including Hitler himself, were extremely nervous about telling the Italians what had happened. Was this because Hess went to Scotland to tell the British High Command that the Nazis had developed advanced technology from “off planet” sources and that it would be futile to continue the war against such newly developed “Miracle Weapons”?
First off, the Italians are given disinformation about Hess, saying that he died in an aircraft accident (page 384 of the PDF file):
Next, Ciano’s Nazi counterpart, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop calls for a meeting with Ciano, turning up unexpectedly in Rome in a “nervous” state:
Note that the Nazis are trying to spin the narrative that Hess was insane and that whatever he tells the British is “false”. In particular, the following line stands out:
“The Germans want to cover themselves before Hess speaks and reveals things that might make a great impression in Italy.”
I believe this is a direct reference to the Magenta Crash. What else relating to the Hess affair would “make a great impression” in Italy?
A week later, Mussolini asks Dino Alfieri, member of the Fascist Grand Council; Minister to Poland and Ambassador to Germany about the Hess affair after Alfieri returns from Germany.
Ciano notes that Alfieri’s lack of knowledge of the subject seems strange, given that he “broke his neck” trying to be the first to console Hitler.
A few days later, Hitler requests Mussolini attend a meeting at the Brenner Pass, but the subject of the meeting is unknown to the Italians:
The main subject of the meeting was, of course, Hess. Mussolini later tells Ciano that Hitler spoke for hours about Hess and wept as he did so:
In fact, Rudolf Hess may have timed his peacemaking mission very badly – his information about “off world” technology making the Axis powers invincible in modern warfare was trumped just a week or two earlier by an event in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in late April 1941. It is also known that American businessman and intelligence operative James Hugh Angleton was living in Milan at the time of the Magenta crash and, apart from possibly witnessing the sound and light show that accompanied the crash firsthand, his connections within the Fascist government and Catholic Church probably leaked information about the event, which was passed on to the U.S. government.
Cape Girardeau crash, April 1941
Fellow inmate of Spandau Prison, architect and high-ranking Nazi official Albert Speer had an interesting conversation with Hess in 1965, which he describes in his book Inside the Third Reich on page 211. Hess claimed that “supernatural forces” told him to undertake the mission to Scotland – perhaps these forces were an adversary to the NHI that crashed at Cape Girardeau?:
Hess remained as the only prisoner in Spandau Prison after the release of Speer and other prisoners in 1966. He committed suicide in his cell in 1987, but the question remains – why did the Allied keep him imprisoned for the term of his natural life? The other prisoners were released on medical grounds, and Hess was a well-known hypochondriac with multiple health issues. His flight to Scotland occurred before Operation Barbarossa, and Speer took over as No. 1 Nazi upon Hitler’s death. Were the Allies afraid that Hess would “spill the beans” about the Magenta Crash and the advanced technologies that were obtained? Ciano actually mentions some of these weapons on page 603:
Hess’s involvement with the Thule Society and other Occult studies caused Hitler to outlaw these activities in Germany after Hess’ flight:
On a side note, the following passage from the Diaries relating to Benito Mussolini’s son Bruno is also interesting:
The “new type of plane” mentioned here is a little perplexing. The Piaggio P.108 Bombardiere was an Italian four-engine heavy bomber that saw service with the Regia Aeronautica during World War II. The first prototype P.108B flew on 24 November 1939, so it certainly wasn’t really “new” by September 1941. It performed extremely well in a series of tests and required refining in only a few minor areas, but it took some time for pilots to get used to the new aircraft. The P.108 was delivered to a single unit, the 274a Squadriglia (274th Squadron), in 1941. But there were several accidents, one of them involving the son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. On 7 August 1941, Bruno Mussolini, commander of the 274a Squadriglia, was piloting one of the prototypes of the “secret” bomber. He flew too low and crashed into a house. The cockpit section separated from the rest of the aircraft and although the aircraft did not catch fire, it was nevertheless totally destroyed in the impact. Commander Bruno Mussolini died from his injuries.
Was Bruno Mussolini actually killed trying to fly a “new type of plane” derived from the technology discovered from the Magenta Crash, and the P.108 incident just a “cover story”? The pilot son of the ruling Dictator would certainly be at the top of the list of trustworthy sources for The Duce to get reliable information from regarding progress.
The American connection to the Magenta Crash
An American businessman/spy and his family were living in Milan in 1933 – his name was James “Hugh” Angleton.
Hugh Angleton – James Angleton’s father
Here is a brief overview of Hugh Angleton, published upon his death on March 7, 1973 by the New York Times:
There is one slight error here: Hugh Angleton moved his family to Corso Venezia 47, Milan, Italy in 1931 to be close to the factory where National Cash Register manufactured its machines. In 1933 he bought the distribution franchise rights for NCR in Italy whilst still working as an executive for NCR. Note in the obit that he was “working closely with the U.S. Embassy” which is veiled speech for “spy”. He was very impressed with Benito Mussolini, and his friend Max Corvo commented “Hugh Angleton… was ultra-conservative, a sympathizer with Fascist officials. He was certainly not unfriendly with the Fascists.” He was also very well connected in Italian society (including the monarchy), which is evident by his actions in WW2 as a Lt. Col. With the OSS:
Hugh Angleton and the Italian Monarchy
Note the mention of “Myron Taylor” in the reports and Hugh being the interface between the OSS and the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), which will be important later.
Myron Charles Taylor (January 18, 1874 – May 5, 1959) was an American industrialist, and later a diplomat involved in many of the most important geopolitical events during and after World War II. On December 22, 1939, Roosevelt asked Taylor “to take on a special mission for me” to be Roosevelt’s “personal envoy” to Pope Pius XII.
Taylor’s appointment was announced on December 23, 1939, and confirmed in Rome, Italy, on February 28, 1940. Taylor served from 1940 throughout the rest of Roosevelt’s presidency (his death in 1945) and continued as President Harry S. Truman’s “personal envoy” until 1950. Although appointed as a “Peace Ambassador” and “personal envoy”, Taylor was extended ambassador status by the Holy See on February 13, 1940.
Taylor’s frequent visits to the Vatican annoyed Mussolini, as is noted in several places in the Ciano Diaries. Ciano even states “the Vatican will only tell us what they want”. Was Taylor the back channel between the US Government and the Vatican for information on the Magenta Crash?
Various instances of Myron Taylor’s activities raising suspicion with Mussolini
Why did Roosevelt select the industrialist Taylor to be his envoy to the Pope? Was it because Taylor’s experience in the manufacture of steel products would be incredibly useful for both the Vatican and the United States understand the technology that crashed at Magenta in 1933? Remember, Hugh Angleton was living in Milan at the time and was an eyewitness to the incident, which was accompanied by incredibly bright and loud “thunder and lightning”. He would have been the ideal intermediatory to assist Myron Taylor in his endeavours to work with Vatican on the Magenta subject – after all, Angleton was the original source of the information to the U.S. Government. Hugh’s son, James Jesus Angleton, also witnessed the event as he spent his final summer in Italy before travelling to Britain in September 1933 to study at Malvern College in Boarding House No.2 until 1936 when he commenced study at Yale.
James Jesus Angleton moves to Milan aged 14 (1931)
James Jesus Angleton entered Yale University in 1937: “Angleton had already developed a distinctive personal style. He spoke with a slight English accent (probably not an affection after three years in the country), and was tall, athletic, bright, and handsome… By conventional standards he was a poor student, frequently missing class, excelling only in those subjects that interested him, and occasionally failing those that didn’t.” A fellow student, Reed Whittemore, later commented: “All through Yale, Jim was backward at completing school papers… It may be that he was just lazy – or maybe he had a psychological problem. He had the class record for incompletes, but he could invariably whitewash over these missing grades because he had a favorable presence with the teachers, who for the most part liked him a lot.” A member of the Skull and Bones, he recruited the services of fellow Bonesman George H.W. Bush when Lancer’s enquiries in MJ-12 operations needed to be delt with.
Hugh Angleton became a senior figure in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and was on the staff of Colonel William Donovan. It had been created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt soon after the outbreak of the Second World War. The OSS replaced the former American intelligence system, Office of the Coordinator of Information (OCI) that was considered to be ineffective. The OSS had responsibility for collecting and analyzing information about countries at war with the United States. It also helped to organize guerrilla fighting, sabotage and espionage.
In August 1944, Lieutenant Colonel James Hugh Angleton and Norman Holmes Pearson, James Jesus Angleton’s former English professor at Yale University, contacted James R. Murphy, the head of the new X-2 CI (Counter Intelligence) branch of the OSS. On 25th September, 1943, Murphy issued a memo: “I would greatly appreciate it if you could get provisional security for Corporal James Angleton in order that he may commence OSS school on Monday. His father is with this branch… In addition young Angleton is very well known to Norman Pearson, who recommended him to me.” (14)
During his training James Jesus Angleton met Richard Helms, the former national advertising manager of the Indianapolis Times, who had joined the OSS in August 1943. In his autobiography, A Look Over My Shoulder (2003) he commented: “As a young man, Jim was bone thin, gaunt, and aggressively intellectual in aspect. His not entirely coincidental resemblance to T. S. Eliot was intensified by a European wardrobe, studious manner, heavy glasses, and lifelong interest in poetry.”
On 28th December, 1943, James Jesus Angleton, arrived in London to work for the Italian section of X-2 C.I. Soon after arriving in England he met Kim Philby, who was head of MI6’s Iberian section. It was the start of a long friendship: “Once I met Philby, the world of intelligence that had once interested me consumed me. He had taken on the Nazis and Fascists head-on and penetrated their operations in Spain and Germany. His sophistication and experience appealed to us… Kim taught me a great deal.” Phillip Knightley, the author of Philby: KGB Masterspy (1988), has pointed out: “Philby was one of Angleton’s instructors, his prime tutor in counter-intelligence; Angleton came to look upon him as an elder-brother figure.”
Angleton impressed his senior officers and within six months he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and was appointed as chief of the Italian Desk for the European Theater of Operations. In October 1944 Angleton was transferred to Rome as commanding officer of Special Counter-Intelligence Unit Z. In March 1945, he was promoted to first lieutenant and became head of X-2 for the whole of Italy. At the age of twenty-seven, he was the youngest X-2 Branch chief in all of OSS. According to Charles J.V. Murphy: “His (Angleton) unit uncovered some of the secret correspondence between Hitler and Mussolini that was later introduced into the Nuremberg trials as proof of their conspiracy.” James Jesus Angleton therefore also had a leading role in the repatriation of the craft from Magenta back to the United States – and in doing so crossed paths with the head of the US Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps in Italy – one Phillip J. Corso. The grapple for control of the Magenta craft between James Angleton and Phil Corso was the original source of enmity between the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Military Counterintelligence regarding ownership of the UFO subject – Angleton, with the help of his well-connected father (who, we must remember, was keeping tabs on what the US Army CIC were doing in Italy) won this particular battle. The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit report from the Roswell crash documents this animosity very well – members of the IPU were forbidden to see the wreckage or the bodies. This animosity even extended to influencing the selection of high level positions within the CIA – in 1962, Corso’s boss, General Arthur Trudeau, was being considered by President John F. Kennedy for the position of Deputy Director, CIA. However, according to Trudeau’s memoirs, “someone in the CIA Counter Intelligence Division put a stop to it”. James Angleton was the Director of CIA Counter Intelligence at that time, and instead Angleton’s fly fishing buddy and General George Marshall’s former Chief of Staff during 1947, Lt. Gen. Marshall S. Carter was selected. Another former US Army CIC member, Henry Kissinger, got the upper hand over the CIA during the Nixon Administration – however both teams lost out due to Watergate and the Church Committee.
In conclusion, Magenta crash eyewitness James Jesus Angleton was therefore well set up by his connections to become the CIA’s chief “secret-keeper” of the UFO subject. Hugh’s wealth allowed James to join the “Geogetown Set” in D.C., along with other wealthy CIA members Allen Dulles and Richard Helms. When the Nixon Administration gave the order to destroy all documents relating to MJ-TWELVE and MK-ULTRA, a few CIA patriots managed to save crucial documents from the fire to inform future generations of this hidden part of human history. I encourage everyone here to dig further into this subject.
The Ciano Diaries:
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