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For anyone interested in UFOs and the American Military,
this is the “must have” book of the millennium
UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973
By Oxford-educated academic Richard M. Dolan
Foreword by Jacques F. Vallee, Ph.D
One aspect of U.S. government policy which has continued to hold the public’s imagination for over half a century is the question of unidentified flying objects. Richard M. Dolan is a gifted young cultural historian whose study of U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and their accompanying secrecy since World War II and the nation’s rise as a superpower.
UFOs and the National Security State is the first volume of a two-part detailed chronological narrative of the national security dimensions of the UFO phenomenon from 1941 to the present day. Working from hundreds of declassified records and other primary sources, Dolan centers his investigation on the perspective of the American military and intelligence communities, and finds that despite their proclaimed stance they take UFOs very seriously indeed.
Included in this volume focusing on the early years of the phenomenon from 1941 to 1973, are the activities of more than fifty military bases relating to UFOs, innumerable violations of sensitive airspace by unknown craft, analyses of the Roswell controversy, the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel, the Condon Committee Report, and more. Dolan also highlights the development of civilian anti-secrecy movements, which flourished in the 1950s and 1960s until the adoption of an official government policy and subsequent “closing of the door” during the Nixon administration.
Richard M. Dolan studied at Alfred University and Oxford University before completing his graduate work in history at the University of Rochester, where he was a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship. Prior to his interest in UFOs, Dolan studied U.S. cold war strategy, Soviet history and culture, and international diplomacy. He lives in Rochester, New York, where he is at work on volume two of his study.
ISBN 1-57174-317-0, Trade paper, $15.95, 6 x 9, UFOs/History