In 2011, we learned that a former senior NSA official, Thomas Andrew Drake, had been involved with Christopher Robinson, a psychic based in the UK.
Was Drake's interest in Robinson's alleged ability to dream about future events officially sanctioned by the National Security Agency? And was there more to Drake's indictment under the Espionage Act for whistle-blowing? How seriously was the U.S. government taking so-called psychic spying? Is there a covert operation to protect U.S. intelligence from foreign paranormal spying?
The uncovering of the Drake-Robinson NSA connection is STARpod.org's Story of the Year for 2011:
"The Shadow Knows: Thomas Drake, NSA, and SECRET Psychic Espionage"
My latest follow-up story, "Is NSA in the Psychic Spy Business," is scheduled to appear in the next issue of Daz Smith's "Eight Martinis" magazine.
In July, we published an interview with Apollo lunar astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon.
Mitchell is not shy about discussing his belief that the Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial intelligence, but are their alien avatars walking among us? And what are we to make of tales of an extraterrestrial presence on the Moon?
When I contacted astronaut Mitchell, I naturally inquired if he knew anything about visitors inhabiting our nearest neighbor in space, noting that Kit Green, a former CIA analyst who consults to the US Defense Intelligence Agency on emerging technology threats, had come forward about government contact with alleged extraterrestrial biological entities (see Mark Pilkington's book "Mirage Men" and my own "Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape" for further information on the alleged alien presence).
How did Mitchell respond? His answers to our questions became our most revealing interview of 2011.
Is there some THING on the Moon? Astronaut Ed Mitchell Says Aliens Walk Among Us (Maybe)
Our conspiracy of the year for 2011 goes to the team at "Secrecy Kills" for the interview with Richard Clarke, the former George W. Bush White House counter-terrorism czar. Clarke wants to know why the CIA failed to share information about two al Qaeda terrorists who had entered the U.S. Was there a deliberate effort by senior CIA officials to withhold intelligence from the White House and the FBI? And what about our source Dan T. Smith and his claim that CIA official Ron Pandolfi knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance?
'Secrecy Kills' CIA 9/11 Cover-Up Conspiracy Theory: FBI Was Told Senior Official Had "Prior Knowledge"
2011 was also the year I launched PsycheLeaks, a new project intended to push forward disclosure of paranormal secrets big and small. Our biggest disclosure in 2011 was the original email stream leaked by CIA's Ron Pandolfi in 2011, along with a couple of emails he sent us requesting we keep everything on the down low.
CIA UNAUTHORIZED Spy Games: The Pandolfi-Green-Doty Affair leaked email stream Source: Dr. Ronald S. Pandolfi, CIA
Finally, don't miss our review of the alleged human outpost on Mars. It looks like this story is about to grow legs once again, after Spencer Ackerman from Wired and Gizmodo managed to get a response from Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council.
It's not called "High Strangeness" for Nothing.
First, check out the story by Ackerman, then learn more behind the scenes intrigue. Is there a White House connection? And should we be more concerned about the Martians, or the Russians?
All Our Favorite Martians: The Secret Mars Mission Affair
It's been an interesting year over at STARpod.us, the new STARstream Research website.
Migrating the older Microsoft-based website to a new Wordpress content management based site has been time consuming but the new site promises to be a more efficient way for us to provide you with the latest news from the strange world of weird science, psychic intelligence and perhaps, extraterrestrial alien contact.
