There are a number of different sources for the data in Ryan Wood’s new book “MAJIC EYES ONLY” – some from the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) and some from the CIA’s Counterintelligence Division. I believe that by comparing the handwriting on the letter accompanying the “Burned Memo” that was received by researcher Timothy Cooper in 1999 to the handwriting of a known confidante of James Angleton’s inner circle, a positive identification can now be made: Newton “Scotty” Miler is Source S1.
Scotty Miler had a meteoric rise in his career within James Angleton’s Counterintelligence Division of the CIA in the 1960s – so much so that Angleton requested his presence on the stand when Angleton was required to give testimony during the Church Committee Hearings in 1976. He made statements on numerous occasions that after the reorganization of CIA’s Counterintelligence Division that the CIA “lost its institutional knowledge” – he fits the bill perfectly for someone who would snatch documents out of a fire in order to preserve that institutional knowledge for future generations. He had interacted with the U.S. Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps between 1946 – 1948 and other Defence intelligence entities like ONI and DIA during his career. Scotty Miler was in the right place and the right time, with the right access to Angleton’s “Yellow File” safe to carry out the action of preserving history, despite President Richard Nixon’s Special Classified Executive Order to purge all documentation that might tie MJ-12 (and therefore by default, Nixon himself) to JFK’s assassination. Only a few documents survived this purge – one was the MK-ULTRA financial record that was missed, and the others were the ones Miler gave Timothy Cooper under the cover of “Source S1”, including the infamous “Burned Memo”. The handwritten note on the side of the cover letter that accompanied the Burned Memo compares well against known specimens of Miler’s handwriting from his CIA personnel file, which was declassified in the 2023 JFK Assassination Records release.
Handwritten note in the margin of the “Important Memo”
https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/burnedmemocoverletter.pdf
The samples of Miler’s handwriting were taken when he wrote out his service history with the CIA, between pages 330-333 of the following document:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10224-10007.pdf
What are some of the things Miler claimed through his “walk-in” document drop?
During 1962, MJ-12 were running PsyOp operations against the Soviets, confusing air defences with “phantom” radar returns. Miler states the “Extraterrestrial Biological Entities” were actually doing this for real, so the Soviets decided to put nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba as a countermeasure.
We now know through declassified records that the CIA was actually doing this through Dr. Albert “Bud” Wheelon of the Directorate of Science and Technology and its Project PALLADIUM.
https://roadrunnersinternationale.com/wheelon.html
We also see Nikita Khrushchev complain to President Kennedy about the on-going PALLADIUM phantom radar returns through the “Hotline” on 12th November 1963 – 10 days before his death.
NSA Presidential Hotline intercept
The 12th November 1963 is also the date that Kennedy writes the following memo to the Director of Counter Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency – James Angleton:
https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/kennedy_cia.pdf
The handwritten note on the margin says “Response from Colby – Angleton has the MJ directive”. The directive, is of course, the Burned Memo, which Miler saved from the burn bag and gave to Timothy Cooper in 1999.
Burned Memo – “it should be wet”
https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/burnedmemo-s1-pgs3-9.pdf
So who was Scotty Miler? He was one of Angleton’s closest work collegues, and was disgusted at the way Angleton was treated by DCI William Colby after the Church Committee fallout. He was concerned that the CIA’s “institutional knowledge” was being discarded because of the new management “style”. He hung around long enough to rescue this knowledge. He also shared Angleton’s mistrust of Colby, which he shared with journalist Edward Jay Epstein in 1976:
https://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diary/miler.htm
He reiterated his regret at the loss of “Institutional Memory” within Counter Intelligence during a speech at the Association of Former Intelligence Officers Convention in 1985:
His alignment with Angleton’s views is demonstrated by the request for Miler to accompany Angleton to give joint testimony to the Church Committee regarding Counter Intelligence:
Angleton and Miler joint testimony
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/157-10014-10006.pdf
Colby also gets special attention from Miler in the “Important Memo” he sent to Timothy Cooper, stating that the mention of Colby in the margin of JFK’s memo to Angleton was the reason Colby was killed:
https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/important_memo.pdf
But why would Scotty Miler feel obliged to pull such documents out of the fire that would so obviously implicate beloved CIA Counter Intelligence division in the murder of President John F. Kennedy? In a word: NIXON.
Born in 1926, Scott Miler trained as a U.S. Naval Officer during the latter part of WW2, graduating just before the war in Europe ended. He then joined the OSS, serving in China, Tiawan (Formosa), Thailand, Korea and other South East Asian countries. He thus joined E. Howard Hunt, James Angleton, Raymond Rocca, Richard Helms and William Colby as the core group of OSS officers that transitioned to the Central Intelligence Agency after its formation in 1947. Moving through the ranks quickly, Miler became a CIA Station Chief in South Korea at the tender age of 25. He was marked for promotion from an early stage.
After Frank Wisner suffered a mental breakdown in September 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon selected Richard Bissell to replace him as the CIA’s Deputy Director for Plans (DDP). Bissell officially assumed the office on 1 January 1959. Richard Helms stayed on as Bissell’s deputy. The Directorate for Plans reportedly controlled over half the CIA’s budget and was responsible for covert operations. DDP oversaw plans to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Patrice Lumumba, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Ngo Dinh Diem, and others. Bissell’s main target was Fidel Castro under the ZR/RIFLE project, which Nixon authorized. Bissell was forced to resign from the CIA in February 1962 by President Kennedy, who also forced CIA Director Allen Dulles resign. I has always been stated that JFK said Bissell and Dulles “had to go” over the Bay of Pigs fiasco – however, given that this event happened 9 months prior, it certainly does not follow the Management 101 “hot stove” rule of immediate dismissal after an event. Instead, it appears Dulles is forced to go shortly after he responded to JFK’s “Terse Memo” requesting a “Review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operation as they relate to Cold War Psychological Warfare Plans” with a “The President of the United States does not have a Need To Know about MJ-12 as defined in the Atomic Energy Act 1954”.
Things go downhill from there for President John F. Kennedy, with the ZR/RIFLE project being used to fund and organise his assassination when he does not stop inquiring about MJ-12 and the UFO subject.
Becoming the Director of CIA in June 1966, Helms knew where “all the bodies were buried” so to speak. Having been Richard Bissell’s Deputy in DDP in 1958 when Nixon initiated the ZR/RIFLE program, Helms knew full well of Nixon’s involvement in assassinations -something that was not lost upon Nixon himself. Nixon slowly started to distance himself from the DCI as a source for intelligence – instead, all reports to Nixon had to go through Kissinger.
After first learning of the Watergate scandal on June 17, 1972, Helms developed a general strategy to distance the CIA from it altogether, including any third-party investigations of Nixon’s role in the precipitating break-in. The scandal created a flurry of media interest during the 1972 presidential election, but only reached its full intensity in the following years. Among those initially arrested (the “plumbers”) were former CIA employees; there were loose ends with the agency. Helms and DDCI Vernon Walters became convinced that CIA top officials had no culpable role in the break-in. It soon became apparent, however, that it was “impossible to prove anything to an inflamed national press corps already in full cry” while “daily leaks to the press kept pointing at CIA”. Only later did Helms conclude that “the leaks were coming directly from the White House” and that “President Nixon was personally manipulating the administration’s efforts to contain the scandal”. Helms came to Camp David to an interview with Nixon about what he thought was a “budgetary matter”. Nixon’s chief of staff H.R. Haldeman also attended. Helms was informed by Nixon that his services in the new administration would not be required. Thus began the decline of the CIA Counterintelligence group of James Angleton and his cronies – and may have been the primary driving force for Miler to save some of the incriminating documents that Nixon ordered destroyed. In revenge for Helms’ dismissal, Angleton arranged for Nixon’s exposure to ZR/RIFLE via the Watergate scandal, where CIA operatives E, Howard Hunt and James McCord tried to blackmail the Nixon Administration by threatening to “reveal everything”. Hunt’s wife was killed in a mysterious plane crash whilst she was acting as the “bag lady” for the extortion, but the damage had been done. Nixon knew he would have to resign or face exposure of involvement in the conspiracy to murder President Kennedy.
The coup de grace of Angleton’s Counterintelligence empire however was facilitated during the Church Committee hearing by William Colby, as the new Director of Central Intelligence. Firstly, Colby “spilled the beans” of the ZR/RIFLE assassination program:
Colby Church Committee testimony – ZR/RIFLE
It became apparent to Bissell, Helms, Angleton and Miler during the Church Committee hearings that Colby was “throwing them all under the bus” with regards to ZR/RIFLE. Here Colby admits that he “isn’t sure” that the Director of CIA would be informed of an assassination plot carried out by CIA staff:
During the testimony of former DCI John McCone, it is stated by McCone that he knew nothing of the assassination program. Colby is asked about this fact:
Colby then makes the most incredible statement of the entire Church Committee hearings – William Harvey, GS-18 level CIA Senior Executive Staff member, could organize and fund an assassination of a foreign leader WITHOUT approval of either the sitting President of the United States or the Director of Central Intelligence.
Harvey answers to no one to initiate assassinations
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2021/docid-32112724.pdf
The question of how such an incredible situation may have eventuated can be clarified by another essay that Source S1 (Scotty Miler) sent to Timothy Cooper in 1998 and is probably due to something in the fine print that Harry S. Truman signed into law in 1947.
https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/ufos-cia-congress-s1-00.pdf
Angleton died in 1987, and when Colby was “whacked” in 1996 before he could be questioned about the JFK memo to CIA (most high-echelon CIA people thought that Colby had “said too much” during the Church Committee hearings – they figured he might do the same thing if cornered), Scotty Miler probably thought it was time to set the record straight. From his home in Cuba, New Mexico (just down the road from the Aztec crash site), he set about the elaborate slow drip of information to researcher Timothy Cooper – someone who had a low profile at the time in the UFO community and thus would fly under the radar of the active countermeasures team that did not and still do not want this information to come out. Miler himself passed away in 2007, aged 80 years. He went to extreme lengths to retain these documents for our historical record.
Please make the most of it.
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