1/13) The "United States Department of Naval Intelligence," an agency Bob Lazar claimed employed him for captive-UFO studies in 1988-89, has never existed, two key authorities on Navy intelligence history (both former 2-star admirals, one now the Navy's head historian) told me.
2/13) Bob Lazar, in muddled and conflicting statements, has claimed that a 1989 W-2 form from the IRS proved that he had worked for a "United States Department of Naval Intelligence." Lazar promotors such as Jeremy Corbell have made much of the document.
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3/13) But in a 10-19-22 email, Samuel J. Cox, Director of the U.S. Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), told me no such organization ever existed. "There has been no Department of Naval Intelligence, either external or internal to the Department of the Navy."
4/13) Prof. Tony L. Cothron, who as a two-star admiral was Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence 2006-2008, wrote to me (10-19-22), "I am not aware of any organization named 'Department of Naval Intelligence...[T]here was never a 'shadow' Department of Naval Intelligence."
5/13) Cothron added, "I was actually stationed in Washington DC in 1989 [W-2 year] and assigned to the Naval Operational Intelligence Center but working on a special assignment for the Director of Naval Intelligence. There was no 'Department of Naval Intelligence' at that time."
6/13) Recently, some people became excited at finding the phrase "Department of Naval Intelligence" in various old newspaper clippings and obituaries, captions for WW II ship photos on government websites, etc, illogically asserting such miscellanea somehow validates the W-2.
7/13) Navy chief historian Cox (who was the 2-star Commander of ONI in 2012-13) wrote: "References to the Department of Naval Intelligence in newspapers are inaccuracies that occasionally occur in press reporting...The Library of Congress reference is also an inaccuracy..."
8/13) Real govt agencies (even covert) produce warehouses of real paper documents, many of which are eventually accessible. None of the would-be Lazar validators have produced a SINGLE document created by the purported decades-old "United States Department of Naval Intelligence."
9/13) In the Navy, a small organizational component on a ship is sometimes called a "department," but that is orders of magnitude removed from the fantasy of a federal intelligence agency that remained hidden for decades, yet betrayed its existence in the writings of
10/13) newspaper court reporters, obit writers, librarians writing captions, etc. It is like claiming there long existed a large 51st state, so secret it is missing on every map, yet revealed in scattered clips, and on a form sent by the IRS to scientist-impersonator Bob Lazar!
11/13) In the real world, the OFFICE of Naval Intelligence (ONI) was formed in 1882. Prof. Cothron recommended as "the best source" on ONI's history the book A CENTURY OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE by Capt. Wyman Packard (1996).
12/13) I found a PDF of Capt. Packard's book at the link below. In the book's 515 pages, the phrase "Department of Naval Intelligence" does not appear a single time.
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13/13) Enough on this for now... but more to come, in due course.
14/n) @richgel999 continues to assert that finding the term "Department of Naval Intelligence" in scattered places--e.g., SecureNinja site--is evidence that a super-secret intelligence agency has existed for decades. It's just silly. SecureNinja corrected within hours of inquiry.
15/n) Geldreich insists the secret agency has existed since at least 1943--79 years ago--yet he has failed to uncover a single memo, letter, or other document actually created by it. The idea of a real government agency producing no retrievable documents in 79 years is absurd.
16/n) On this topic at least, Geldreich's "research" involves implausible assumptions, breathless leaps of untethered speculation, serial non sequiturs, and unbounded subjectivity. I confess that his investigative style puts me in mind of the fictional Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
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