Defense Intelligence Agency

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Yeah, I lost colleagues from Defense Intelligence Agency and, and folks, uh, in the Navy Command Center and-

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John Blaxland was working on exchange for the US Department of Defense in Washington, DC when news started filtering out that planes had hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

And I went home that evening, and we lived in Old Town Alexandria, just across the river from Defense Intelligence Agency, just down the river from the Pentagon.

Our house was full of smoke from the Pentagon fires.

The next day, we went into work, uh, sandbags, machine guns, checkpoints, a free and open, post-Cold War city really entered into the 9/11 era.

Now, that's a difficult task, even in 1960.

But this became quite a mainstay in early ufology of the 1990s, given that in addition to Request Anonymous telling this extraordinary story, there were several alleged DIA or Defense Intelligence Agency officials, uh, who were also coming in and saying, "Yeah, we have knowledge of this case too, and we can verify what Request Anonymous is talking about."

Could you estimate what his, the level of intellect was?

Smarter than me.

Now, that's a difficult task, even in 1960.

But this became quite a mainstay in early ufology of the 1990s, given that in addition to Request Anonymous telling this extraordinary story, there were several alleged DIA or Defense Intelligence Agency officials, uh, who were also coming in and saying, "Yeah, we have knowledge of this case too, and we can verify what Request Anonymous is talking about." Could you estimate what his level of intellect was? Smarter than me.

He was smarter than me by, by a long range.

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And pretty much after that, after that day, it happened early enough in the semester, I changed my major.

I focused like a laser on military studies and the Middle East and applied and got into the Defense Intelligence Agency and prepared to go to war as quickly as possible.

Having grown up in Hawaii, I immediately felt like it was my December 7th moment.

And whatever my misgivings were, concerns with the Bush administration at the time, it just felt like this was the moment.

Those that are going to go down with Trump's sinking ship.

Congressman, there was an unclassified assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency last year that said that Iran would not have a missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland until 2035.

And they hadn't directly attacked U.S. bases until the U.S. launched this war in February.

So how exactly is it that there was an urgent need to start this war when they wouldn't have been able to hit America, the American mainland, directly for another decade? Number

Obviously, that meeting never happened for very clear reasons.

I was supposed to have a meeting earlier in the day, one of my clients, Leadership Institute, which sat directly across the street from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

When I called when this first started, I said, are we still doing this? They said, yeah, be there.

Ten minutes later, I got a call that the DIA had walked into the Leadership Institute headquarters and told everyone to leave now, go home.

Obviously, that meeting never happened for very clear reasons.

I was supposed to have a meeting earlier in the day, one of my clients, Leadership Institute, which sat directly across the street from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

When I called when this first started, I said, are we still doing this? They said, yeah, be there.

Ten minutes later, I got a call that the DIA had walked into the Leadership Institute headquarters and told everyone to leave now, go home.