Condon, Commies, Con Artists and Cult leaders in Science - an unusual and rare letter.

[Jim_Duyer]

In my bag of tricks, my collection of interesting tidbits to share some day, I came across a letter that is authentic, but one that you very probably have never laid eyes upon. I thought it worth sharing. The letter is addressed to Edward Condon:


Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974) was an American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant during World War II in the development of radar and, very briefly, of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
He was asked to leave the Manhattan Project and the development of the first nuclear bomb when evidence surfaced that he was indeed a communist party member.

During the McCarthy period, Condon was one of the first prominent scientists to become a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee, charged publicly in 1948 with being "one of the weakest links in our atomic security" on account of his extensive knowledge of classified information, his connections with the development of the atomic bomb, and his alleged sympathies for communism and the Soviet Union. Evidence was presented that he did indeed belong to several groups of communists in America and had frequent contacts with Embassy representatives of several communist countries.

On May 29, 1946, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote a letter intended for President Truman that named several senior government officials as part of a Soviet network. It described Condon as "nothing more or less than an espionage agent in disguise."

His case became a cause célèbre among those who opposed McCarthyism, especially scientists, and was one of the most prominent cases of its time, and he was defended by many prominent scientists, as well as by Democratic President Harry Truman. Democrats in government and the sciences as well as liberals and social/communists of the left defended him at every turn.

Condon became widely known in 1968 as principal author of the Condon Report, an official review funded by the United States Air Force that concluded that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have prosaic explanations. The lunar crater Condon is named for him.

Condon was professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis from 1956 to 1963 and then at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1963, where he was also a fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, until retiring in 1970.

Because they had something on him (his actions as a spy for the communists) and thus he was easily controlled, he made an easy choice for the head of a Committee that was designed to put and end to the topic of UFOs, the infamous Condon Committee.

"From 1966 to 1968, Condon directed Boulder's UFO Project, known as the Condon Committee. He was chosen for his eminence and his lack of any stated position on UFOs." That last part is a complete lie - in the reports notes of conculsion it was commented by other members of the Committee that Condon had made up his mind about the lack of any real UFOs prior to the first evidence being presented - and he never wavered from that stance.

He later wrote that he agreed to head the project "on the basis of appeals to duty to do a needed public service" on the part of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Its 1968 final report - which drew on Project Blue Book information from the USAF, as well as reports collected by two civilian organisations - concluded that unidentified flying objects had prosaic explanations. Blue Book was terminated at the end of 1969 - shortly after the Condon Report reached the general public - and the latter work has been cited as a key factor in the generally low levels of interest in UFOs taken subsequently by mainstream scientists and academics.

In 1961 he was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution. Or, in other words, the New World Order proposed by certain Illuminati and related members.

Few people would know, or remember, that at one time L. Ron Hubbard was a member of the American Rocketry Society and a personal friend of some of the founders of JPL - yes the same JPL that launches satellites and more along with NASA.

So in this unusual letter from 1958 he is asking his friend, Condon, to join with him on the Island of Cuba, where they have promised some free land to open a University where Communist American scientists and wacko pushers of Cult religions can get together in peace and study the events of the world and the universe.