From: Franklin D. Fields <fields.nul>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:31:14 -0400 (EDT)
Archived: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:31:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Admiral Never Looked For UFO Data


>From: Brad Sparks <RB47x.nul>
>To: ufoupdates.nul
>Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:15:57 EDT
>Subject: Re: Admiral Never Looked For UFO Data

>>From: Richard Dolan <keyhole.nul>
>>To: <errol.nul>,
>>Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:49:32 -0400
>>Subject: Re: Admiral Never Looked For UFO Data

<snip>

>The AF evidently gets its revenge against Navy man Donald Keyhoe
>(Marines are part of the US Navy) who harassed the AF for so many
>years over its UFO coverup policy.

>Also, I have found Adm. Wilson's job title in 1997 has been
>exaggerated to spice up the story. He was not the J-2, but was
>the director of the J-2 Support Office of the DIA, in 1997,
>apparently. The Director of the DIA is the J-2, wears two hats.
>Wilson did not become DIA Director and thus the J-2 for another
>two years, until July 1999.


Mr. Sparks,

As a former U.S. military officer, I believe my experience
qualifies me to offer an expert opinion. I can verify that
rivalry between the U.S. military services does occur. However,
today’s U.S. military is very integrated and I don’t think that
service rivalries would impact how the U.S. Department of Defense
(DoD) handles an issue as important and highly classified as the
reality of extraterrestrial beings or ships.

As you said the “Director of the DIA is the J-2’. The "J" in J-2
stands for Joint. Meaning that DIA is a command that is made up
of officers from all branches of the U.S. military. The “2”
refers to intelligence functions. So the J-2 simply means a joint
(integrated) command with intelligence being the primary
function.

Congress began implementing joint requirements as part of the
Goldwater-Nichols Act passed in 1986. This law, as well as
others, specifically directs the military to groom and assign
high-caliber officers to joint duty assignments. As a matter of
fact, the current director of the DIA is an Army General (General
Maples, was appointed the 16th DIA Director on November 4, 2005)
as are many of the other officers assigned to the command.

To get an assignment to a joint position within DIA, an officer
would be viewed by his service as one of their top performers.
One that has received extensive schooling and that is expected to
rise in the ranks. In addition, the officer would already have
been assigned to intelligence assignments within their respective
service and would have performed well.

On the issue of Admiral Wilson’s job assignment in 1997, he would
not have been in his assignment if he were not being groomed for
the top job or one like it. He would have been privileged to most
if not all of the information known by his boss. It is safe to
say that Admiral Wilson was someone that would have been “in the
know”. Categorizing his assignment as only administrative or in
some way not an important and active member of DIA’s leadership
would be a gross misunderstanding of the U.S. military.

Lastly, the Defense Intelligence Agency is the responsible agency
that conducts analysis of threats from ALL foreign entities. DIA
directly supports the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
Military Departments, the world wide Combatant Commanders, and
the Heads of other DoD Components. It is the agency within the
U.S. DoD that should logically analyze threats such as UFOs. If
Admiral Wilson truly did not know about the program or have
access, it seems logical that Wilson would have looked outside
DoD to civilian private contractors or to non military agencies
such as the CIA.


Best,

Frank


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