CIA Agent: Roswell happened

[NEOWatcher]

From the Times via CNN link:
Roswell Really Happened, Says Former CIA Agent
I'm glad to see that the times is skeptical of this story. They state right up front:

A 35-year agency veteran says he knows what went down in the New Mexico desert 65 years ago -- and, coincidentally, has a new book to promote.

New book = Wild Claim. business as usual.
Of course, this guy is not going to explain anything. He's hiding behind his CIA oath.
At least they treated the story better than the article that the they referenced which brings our good old freind Stanton Friedman into the picture.

[swampyankee]

If he says "the whole UFO thing was all made out of whole cloth by the CIA," I'd believe him. After all, this was the agency that deliberately administered LSD to unknowing innocents, and making up a story about UFOs to test people's gullibility would be a) interesting as a psychological warfare test, b) gobs of fun, and c) unlikely to be lethal.

If, on the other hand (alas, it's probably the more likely one), he claims that there were aliens there, I'd suggest that he was one of the subjects in one of the CIA's LSD tests.

[NEOWatcher]

If, on the other hand (alas, it's probably the more likely one), he claims that there were aliens there

Probably? Did you even see the headline on the second article. It's there in plain sight.
Roswell UFO Was Not Of This Earth And There Were ET Cadavers: Ex-CIA Agent Says

[SkepticJ]

Why would a CIA agent be privy to that hypothetical knowledge anyway?

[swampyankee]

Probably? Did you even see the headline on the second article. It's there in plain sight.
Roswell UFO Was Not Of This Earth And There Were ET Cadavers: Ex-CIA Agent Says

Well, total speculation with no information was much more fun, and more in keeping with some of the recent (early 2000s) rules of evidence.

[HenrikOlsen]

I would say this is one of the best indications that there was nothing interesting at Roswell.

CIA agent is definitely one of the jobs that teach people not to tell what really happened, trying to do so would put him where the sun doesn't shine really fast.

[starcanuck64]

and spent 10 years as the agency’s first entertainment and publication industries liaison.

Which may explain where he got the idea to write a book about Roswell.

[Charlie in Dayton]

I keep thinking of how well(?) this little occurrence (among others) have been kept quiet...
I was gonna equate this to a recent President's adventures in the Oval Office, but in the interest of keeping my point count to a minimum,
I'll just leave it at this...

As the old saying goes, three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

...'nuff said...

[TJMac]

So, because he is a 35 year veteran of the agency, he automatically knows secret (top secret, above top secret, for no ones eyes only, ludicrously top secret?) information from 30 years before his hire date?

I'd ask at what point they share that information. "Well, Jim, it's your 20th anniversary, just ten more and we can let you in on what really went on at Roswell! Hope you make it another 10, because that's really cool stuff."

FF 10 years. "OK, Jim, old buddy, here is what happened. I know that you have no need to know, but it's a reward for you being a stand up guy for 3 decades." Cue the X-Files music.

Hmmm.

TJ