The Simpkinson Nasa Ufo The CIA-Sanitized Briefing Document They Never Intended You to See-Pull the Wool From Your Eyes-A REPORT TO CONGRESS
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20.01.2026
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Ed WilsonSeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9798901830260
This book is a document-based exposé.
Not of belief. Not of speculation. But of a historical system that shaped what could be seen, what could be shared, and what remained obscured during the Cold War.
For decades, public scrutiny focused almost exclusively on NASA-an agency widely accused of withholding or denying photographic evidence. Drawing on a never-before-assembled body of declassified intelligence-era documentation, much of it originally classified SECRET or TOP SECRET, this book demonstrates that this focus was misplaced. NASA was not the final authority over its most sensitive Gemini-era photographs. In many cases, it never had custody of them at all.
What follows is not an accusation, but a reconstruction.
Based entirely on original government memoranda, technical reports, and intelligence correspondence obtained through extensive CIA FOIA research, this work assembles an end-to-end evidentiary record explaining how Gemini XI mission photography was reviewed, controlled, reproduced, and selectively disseminated within a national security framework. The documents-many reproduced and cited in Appendix G-include records related to Project GALAXY, NSAM-156, and National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) briefing practices, including the use of halftone and lithographic surrogates prepared for restricted circulation.
The record shows that almost no one-inside or outside NASA-ever saw original Gemini XI photographs. What the public came to know as "the photographs" were most often second- or third-generation products: briefing boards, cropped prints, and reproduction artifacts designed for controlled viewing rather than detailed analysis.
In this context, NASA functioned not as a deceiver, but as a visible surface institution (a red herring)-absorbing public scrutiny for decisions governed elsewhere. The documentary record shows that this misdirection arose not from dishonesty, but from Cold War national security architecture that placed image custody and disclosure authority outside public-facing agencies. NASA officials who stated they possessed no photographic evidence were, in many cases, entirely truthful.
Within this tightly managed intelligence briefing ecosystem, the existence of the Simpkinson lithograph becomes comprehensible. Its format, limitations, and survival pathway align with documented CIA and NPIC practices for handling sensitive imagery deemed unsuitable for public release, yet necessary for restricted, high-level briefings. When viewed in this historical light, the lithograph emerges not as an anomaly or error, but as a plausible intelligence-era artifact.
This is not belief.
It is documentation.
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