Robert Hastings, UFOs and Nukes

After the recent podcast from The Good Trouble Show, I started reading UFOs and Nukes in preparation for the second part.

In his book, Mr. Hastings quotes a former CIA officer Victor Marchetti along with John Marks the book “The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence”. I have included a portion from this chapter found on page 175 about halfway down the page is where this starts. For context Mr. Hastings is writing about why there is official secrecy about UFOs/UAP.

From the chapter-

“After resigning from the agency, Marchetti wrote (with U.S. State Department analyst John Marks) the best-selling book, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, whose publication the CIA fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Eventually, a partially-redacted version was published in 1975, making it the first book in American history to be successfully censored by the U.S. government. In 1979, in an article published in Second Look magazine, titled, “How the CIA views the UFO phenomenon”, Marchetti wrote, My theory is that we have, indeed, been contacted— perhaps even visited—by extraterrestrial beings, and that the U.S. Government,

in collusion with other

national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public. The purpose of the international conspiracy is to maintain a workable

stability among the nations of the world and for them, in turn to retain institutional control over their respective populations. Thus, for these governments to admit there are beings from outer space attempting to contact us, beings with mentalities and technological capabilities obviously far superior to ours, could, once fully perceived by the average person, erode the foundations of the Earth’s traditional power structure. Political and legal systems, religions, economic and social institutions could all soon become meaningless in the mind of the public. The national oligarchical establishments, even civilization as we know it, could collapse into anarchy. Such extreme conclusions are not necessarily valid, but they probably accurately reflect the fears of the ‘ruling class’ of the major nations, whose leaders (particularly those in the intelligence business) have always advocated excessive governmental secrecy as being necessary to preserve ‘national security.’ The real reason for such secrecy is, of course, to keep the public uninformed, misinformed, and, therefore, malleable…

[Let’s assume] there are UFOs or there have been contacts—if only signals—from outer space, but the evidence reveals the aliens are interested only in observing us [and] they have no hostile intentions and are no direct threat to any nation. [If this is the case,] public knowledge of these facts could become a threat. If the existence of UFOs were to be officially confirmed, a chain reaction could be initiated that would result in the collapse of the Earth’s present power structure. Thus, a secret international understanding—a conspiracy—has been agreed to by the world powers to keep the public ignorant of and confused about contacts or visitations from beyond Earth.^13

Marchetti’s commentary is important, not because it reveals the CIAs

bottom-line assessment of UFOs—it does not—but, rather, because it presents the valuable insights of a professional intelligence officer whose arguments elucidate one possible explanation for the U.S. governments

secrecy on the subject of UFOs.”

-end quote

I thought that this sounded eerily similar to what Grusch had said in his interviews about the motivation of those in the know about what is occurring.

In any case check out the book UFOs and Nukes by Robert L. Hastings. We owe him a debt of gratitude for his diligence on this subject.