Are the MJ-12–Cooper files nothing more than fabrications by ufologists with far too much time on their hands…?
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
The Cooper collection of material is as intriguing as it is controversial, but I did find it very thought provoking that (regardless of who wrote or created the documents and for whatever purpose—obscure or otherwise) the IPU document suggested that U.S. authorities had allegedly addressed the idea that the Roswell event was borne out of a “well-orchestrated hoax (maybe by the Russians).”
This is, of course, all very relevant to the story told to Annie Jacobsen and cited in her Area 51 book. Did her source, Alfred O’Donnell, see the IPU document at some point decades ago? Did he have access to further files (or testimony) relative to how this determination of a Russian hoax was made? What was it that prompted the creator of the IPU document to include that particular data on the “Russian hoax” in its pages? Are the MJ-12–Cooper files nothing more than fabrications by ufologists with far too much time on their hands, or is the revelation above indicative of something weirder going on, such as a disinformation-themed plot to confuse the truth of Roswell?
Whatever the answer, the fact is that yet another disputed document addresses the Russian hoax/mass hysteria angle. The story can be found in what is known as the “White Hot Technical Report.” The nineteen-page-long document (real, disinformation, or hoax—one is forced to take one’s pick) states in part: “There is a good chance that the Russians may try to make use of the flying saucer scare by public news media and diplomatic means of a technological breakthrough in aircraft and missile development.
We feel that such a disclosure would most certainly cause great embarrassment to our elected officials and to the military, not to mention the panic felt by the citizenry.” Finally, one of the reasons why a very small number of UFO researchers felt that the story as told to Annie Jacobsen by Alfred O’Donnell might have some truth to it was because Josef Mengele actually did have a twisted and very disturbing interest in dwarves and children. As evidence of this, one and all should take a look at Yehuda Koren’s book Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz, which is an eye-opening read, to say the very least.
The press release for Koren’s book said: “Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz is a moving and inspirational story of survival, of a troupe of seven dwarf siblings, whose story starts like a fairy tale, before moving into the darkest moments of their history; the darkest moments of modern history. At a time when the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ was paramount, the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarfs, less than three feet tall, defied the fate of so many other Holocaust victims.… “Descending from the cattle train into the death camp of Auschwitz, the Ovitz family was separated from other Jewish victims on the orders of one Dr.
Joseph Mengele. Obsessed with eugenics, Dr. Mengele experimented on the family, aiming to discover the biological and pathological causes of the birth of dwarfs. Like a single-minded scientist, he guarded his human lab-rats, and subsequently, when the Russian army liberated Auschwitz, all members of the family—the youngest, a baby boy just 18 months-old, the oldest, a 58 year-old woman—were alive.”
Whatever the truth behind the recollections of Alfred O’Donnell, one thing we can say for sure is that a great deal of effort went into carefully creating a scenario revolving around Josef Mengele, Joseph Stalin, the Horten brothers, surgically altered children, and the 1947 Roswell event. Does any evidence support the claims of Alfred O’Donnell? Let’s take a look.