Getting started

Posted by dt on Thursday, 17 July 1997, at 4:36 p.m.

Readers:

Beginning where I last left off......my response was something like, "Yeah,
give me a few minutes to come up with an answer."

I said know the human genome would be helpful to medical researchers like
Bishop and Varmus but "how does it help you...err..us?"

The answer to the above question came over time. for those of you who have
read Corso's book, you have a hint at the answer already. Let's say his lay
description of the alien's anatomy is fairly accurate. We could immediately
see that we weren't going anywhere in hyper-space with our present physical
structure. You guys have seen the old movie of early air force experiments
of the test subject's face almost turning inside out from the initial grin
when traveling on railroad tracks propelled by rockets.

Early thinking went something like this: Based on how the aliens looked, we
needed to do some changing, that is, speed up evolution. How? By using
genetic engineering, a science that only the nazi's has recently shown any
major interest at the time. We all knew the ability to "change" what we
didn't know yet would take time and would involve many people and labs. To
big of an effort to keep at low visibility and for the working group to
handle. This was the problem for the working group.

"We" thought the first step would be to map out the DNA sequence of the Homo
Sapien genome? For now, how were we going to get started? This meant how was
medical science going to pick up the ball and run with the idea. I said
researchers like Bishop and Varmus may have provided us with the answer.
"We" would therefore have to nuture their type of work.

The "We" represented groups with heavy working group infiltration. These
primary groups were the MIT people and (no not so much DoD as the)
Department of Energy. Tying the MIT people and DoE was done as a matter of
expediency more than anything else.

(remember- A51, S-4 is essentially run by DoE as well as DoD so what the
hell does MIT have to do with it......well, you have to look at who the
civilian workers work for, that is, the employer....yes, EG&G)

As Psiclops can possibly confirm, why would EG&G dedicate a special
educational center at MIT in 1984 (year?)?.....

Well, in 1947..1947... not only did the working group, US Air Force, and the
C.I.A. all get started but guess what company started that year
too...correct....EG&G, Inc..... You see the EG&G stood for three of the
founders Harold Edgerton, Kenneth Germeshausen & Herbert Grier. Do you know
where these guys earned their degrees? No, not Harvard! .....but yes...MIT.
(I'm sorry, I get carried away with these self-answering question games)

These patriotic gentlemen were EE Engineers who all knew each other as they
were all involve with the Manhattan Project during the big one. Now what I
don't know is whether all or just one was associated with the working group
(as at this time the only alien that I knew was in the Bugs Bunny cartoons).
What these guys had in there favor was that the MIT members of the original
working group knew these three- they were business organizers, handled even
in 1947 classified work, all interested in high energy electrical pulses,
inventors, ....you name it. (Capt. Zot would've liked Edgerton as he was a
photographer, Germeshausen worked with radar modulators, Grier, I'll save
for last)

(Remember the dilemma that the army air corp had, if the roswell event was
real, where do you store the crash pieces for safe-keeping? And, I said some
guys from Boeing suggested a possible solution to the MIT people...well
these EG&G guys were made to order)

E,G,&G (this refers to the individuals) really worked for the Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC) in weapons research and we know the working groups
connection to the AEC, right. Vannevar Bush was chairman of the JRDB (Joint
Research and Development Board) which eventually formed the AEC and was a
friend to E,G,&G.

It was actually Herbert Grier that found the perfect storage site at the
time for some of the physical items recovered from Roswell.

You see....hey, hmmmmmmm, just like Capt. Zot...he too took a trip to Las
Vegas and after seeing some desert north, told E,G he wanted to head EG&G's
western operations which DoD named the "Nevada Test Site" (NTS). Grier
wanted to keep his involvement in nuclear development.

In early 1950, he got backing from the C.I.A. Director (an original member
of the working group) Roscoe Hillenkoetter to start a new project, known as
the "Rover Program", which had the sole purpose of developing nuclear
propulsion engines for space flight craft. E, G said space flight, weird
they thought when even the Navy doubted such propulsion could be used in
their subs?

Here's some real coincidental intrigue. Grier wanted the top EE engineering
minds on his projects (which also included postwar A-bomb testing as he
brought on-board at EG&G a guy named Bernard O'Keefe from the los alamos
labs, O'Keeke was aptly rewarded as he worked his way up to EG&G's Board of
directors, I believe?) Anyway, Grier found that he had a problem....getting
some of the bright young minds to accept living out in the desert. The war
was over so the residual Manhattan Project stuff didn't go over too well
with the young. So Grier had to go to Las Vegas and negotiate a deal with
"The Mob." That is, guarantee a resident population of employees in exchange
for cheaply housing his employees in Las Vegas. A new problem arose. How to
get them to their location of employment? The answer was easy, and although
since has been modified, the method is the still the same.......

EG&G would take their employees to a place the government maps only i.d. as
"Area 51" by air.

-dt