Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell on Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAPs)

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well I eventually went to the Pentagon and asked for a meeting with the Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which I got with another naval officer who had had many similar experiences and we told our story and there's gentlemen a vice admiral said to us well I don't know about that but I'm going to find out and called a few weeks later and said he had found the source of of the black budget funding for this project and that he was going to subsequently investigate because if it was real he should know about it and it's a fact matter of fact he should be in charge that was his words and so we did get calls from sometime later and a report much later than that that he had found the people responsible for the cover-up and for the people who were in the know and we're told I'm sorry Admiral you do not have need to know here and so goodbye and we do know that there have been very high-level people politicians over the last years from Barry Goldwater through Gerry Ford and others in our government and President Clinton Bill Clinton tried to break into that circle of knowledge and was resoundingly rebuffed and what was not we're not able to do so so to me it's a very it's a cancer growing in our mist that this information is known to some but as being well hit