Free The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure by Robert M. Collins, Timothy Cooper, Rick Doty

in covert UFO operations.
     
         When Helms started his career with the new agency 55 years ago, he was one of a group of young veterans of clandestine warfare during World War II. They chose to stay in the secret world to fight a new and, in many ways, a more formidable enemy. Seemingly, Helms was a natural at managing secret operations. He rose from desk officer to DCI and came to represent a new type of government professional: The career intelligence officer steeped in the culture of clandestine activities––like Majestic-12 ––and devoted to the agency as an institution. Intelligence work, Helms would later say, was “not merely . . . a job, but rather . . . a calling.”
     
         Richard Helms was born in 1913 into a family of means and international connections. He grew up in the middle class suburbs of Philadelphia and New York. One of his brothers described their youth as “conventional upper-middle class, well educated, well traveled, interested in good schools and sports, and with a social life centering on the country club (1).”  Helms took part of his schooling at academies in Switzerland and Germany and became fluent in French and German. In 1931, he entered Williams College and majored in literature and history. He became class president and head of the school paper, and was voted “most respected,” “best politician,” and “most likely to succeed.”
     
    Wartime with the OSS
     
    In 1942, Helms joined the US Naval Reserve, received a commission as a lieutenant, and worked in the Eastern Sea Frontier headquarters in New York City, plotting the locations of German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean. A former wire service colleague approached him about working for the new Office of Strategic Services in its Morale Operations Branch, which produced “black” propaganda. In 1943, the Navy transferred Helms to the OSS in Washington.
     
         Helms was able to organize infiltrations of agents behind German lines to spy and set up resistance networks. Late in the war, he was “forward deployed” to Paris. Then, after V-E Day, he moved on to Luxembourg and Germany where he was made deputy chief of the espionage element in Wiesbaden. In August 1945, he was transferred to a similar job in Berlin under Allen Dulles. From there, he tracked down Nazi sympathizers and war criminals, collected information on stolen goods, traced German scientists, and monitored Soviet military misdeeds.
     
    A Life’s Work
     
         After President Truman abolished the OSS in late 1945, Helms moved into the Berlin office of the Strategic Services Unit, a carryover operational organization warehoused in the War Department. In December, he came back to Washington (for good, as it turned out) to run the central Europe branch of the short-lived Central Intelligence Group. Then in late 1947, he took a somewhat similar position in the new CIA’s Office of Special Operations which was the same office that James Angleton worked in; as a senior aide, he undoubtedly kept Helms informed of the most guarded secrets and most likely UFOs were on the list.
     
         This is reinforced by a conversation on March 26, 2000 between Tim Cooper and James Angleton Jr. where JA Jr. said that his grandfather James Jesus Angleton (JJA) helped establish MJ MAJESTIC-12 CI operations before he was appointed Director of Counter-Intelligence (2). Note: recent information has come to light and it seems Jim Angleton’s Jr. Father Angleton SR (who died of a brain tumor in 2004) was adopted out of wedlock. Angleton SR would often call himself the nephew of James Jesus Angleton.
         Since its inception in 1947, the CIA was engaged in advancing the art of reconnaissance especially over the old Soviet Union and UFOs (Chapters 1 and 2).
         In the same breath, the CIA was busy debunking the many “flying saucer” reports being reported to the USAF. Informed speculation had circulated among upper air intelligence