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Chase Brandon, a thirty-five year veteran of the CIA, will tonight appear as a guest on "COAST TO COAST AM" with John B. Wells. Many listeners will no doubt be unfamiliar with Brandon and his career with the CIA, but his name has passed my lips literally thousands of times over the past several years.
Brandon spent twenty-five years in the Agency's elite Clandestine Service as an undercover, covert operations officer. His foreign assignments involved international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He was also an Agency foreign political affairs analyst, Presidential briefer to Bill Clinton and an instructor in paramilitary and espionage tactics at multiple secret CIA training camps.
Brandon is perhaps best known as the CIA's former Entertainment Liaison Officer - a position that required him to establish working relationships with many of the biggest names in Hollywood and to provide advice to filmmakers on matters of "accuracy and authenticity" with regard to the CIA's image onscreen. He was - though he prefers to phrase it more sympathetically - the CIA's chief frontline propagandist in Hollywood. He advised on countless films and TV series - often uncredited - quietly shaping scripts, characters and concepts.
As a great deal of my academic research has been focused on cinematic propaganda efforts, Brandon's activities in Hollywood naturally have been of considerable interest to me and I have spent countless hours discussing with colleagues and writing about the CIA's role in Hollywood and the influence wielded by Chase Brandon and other CIA advisors in the entertainment industry.
The CIA/Hollywood relationship is a sordid one, and it predates the start of the Agency's "official" involvement in Tinseltown by four decades. You can read about this relationship in Professor Tricia Jenkins' excellent new book, "THE CIA IN HOLLYWOOD: HOW THE AGENCY SHAPES FILM AND TELEVISION", and I'll be exploring the CIA/Hollywood symbiosis in great detail in the context of the UFO phenomenon in my forthcoming book, "SILVER SCREEN SAUCERS: SORTING FACT FROM FANTASY IN HOLLYWOOD'S UFO MOVIES".
With Chase Brandon's credentials in mind, the UFO community is set to engage in furious debate about this CIA man's first novel, which is now on sale and is titled "THE CRYPTOS CONUNDRUM". It is a "fictional" book dealing with the UFO/ET issue, specifically with the Roswell crash and cover-up. This marks the first time ever that any retired CIA operative has written a book (presented either as fact or fiction) on the UFO topic that has received the Agency's official stamp of approval. On that basis alone, it's a must-read.
On the first page of the book, a bold, underlined notice reads:
THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN REVIEWED BY THE CIA TO PREVENT THE DISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.
But, of course, classified information can't technically be disclosed if it is presented as fiction. Brandon is gleefully aware of this, and selects as his first quote of the book a musing by Francis Bacon:
"TRUTH IS SO HARD TO TELL, IT SOMETIMES NEEDS FICTION TO MAKE IT PLAUSIBLE."
I've read Brandon's novel. Obviously, it's intriguing, to say the least, and Brandon clearly wants it to be seen to contain many truths, despite its "fiction" label. Does Brandon have 'inside' information on UFOs? It is my assessment that, yes, probably he does. "Some". The circles he's walked in during his career would almost certainly have made him privy to UFO-related chatter; to whispers and suggestions, if not hard evidence. This is not to say the information Brandon might have is true. What he 'knows' is very likely based on what he's been told, not on what he's seen. More than anything, what readers should remember when reading Brandon's tantalising book is that the author is a trained expert in propaganda and psychological warfare. Buy his book, then, but don't buy into it.
BY ROBBIE GRAHAM "SILVER SCREEN SAUCERS"
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