Harald Malmgren, who served under John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, made the eyebrow-raising claim about the alleged conversation with CIA officer Richard Bissell in a viral post on X this week, reports news.com.au.
“Sixty-plus years ago I was provided highest level classifications to lead DOD (Department of Defence) work on nuclear weapons and antimissile defense,” Mr Malmgren wrote.
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Subscribe to the Newsletter“Informally briefed on ‘otherworld technologies’ by CIA’s Richard Bissell (who had been in charge of Skunkworks, Area 51, Los Alamos, etc.) but sworn to secrecy.”
60+ years ago I was provided highest level classifications to lead DOD work on nuclear weapons&anti-missile defense. Informally briefed on "otherworld technologies" by CIA's Richard Bissel (who had been in charge of Skunkworks, Area 51, Los Alamos, etc.) but sworn to secrecy. https://t.co/GcSEDiwPeH
— Harald Malmgren (@Halsrethink) August 19, 2024
Mr Malmgren had been replying to an earlier thread about “above top secret” clearances, in which he claimed to have been told by rocket scientist Lawrence Preston Gise — the grandfather of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — about “his alleged work on reverse-engineering of [UAP] objects” during a conversation in 1963.
Mr Malmgren wrote in a follow-up post that he was briefed by Mr Bissell — the architect of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba who stepped down from the CIA the following year — “off the record after his resignation”.
“I am not seeking public confirmation status — just telling my personal story,” Mr Malmgren wrote. “Confirmations will be up to others directly involved, in coming months.”
He added that “I never directly worked on UAPs, nor indirectly used such research in my own work” and therefore “cannot be treated as a source of confirmation of UAP info”.
“What I learned was sketchy, slightly illuminated by Bissell as he felt I needed a heads up in case the subject ever came up in my meetings with presidents or others,” he wrote. “I swore secrecy to him, not under any law.”
“I simply thought time has come for the rest of humanity to start thinking about what it means for understanding of the world in which we live,” he wrote.
