Apr 25 2008
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Van Tassel and the FBI
Following on from my post of yesterday (on how the FBI secretly watched Contactee George Adamski), here are a number of extracts from FBI files of November 1954 which demonstrate how closely Hoover’s G-Men were deeply watching yet another of the Contactees: George Van Tassel.
In a memorandum to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover dated 16 November 1954, an FBI agent wrote (after paying Van Tassel a personal visit out at Giant Rock, CA, no less):
“Relative to spacemen and space craft, VAN TASSEL declared that a year ago last August, while sleeping out of doors with his wife in the Giant Rock area, and at about 2.00 a.m. he was awakened by a man from space. This individual spoke English and was dressed in a grey one-piece suit similar to a sweat suit in that it did not have any buttons, pockets, and noticeable seams. This person, according to VAN TASSEL, invited him to inspect a spacecraft or flying saucer, which had landed on Giant Rock airstrip. VAN TASSEL claimed the craft was bell shaped resembling a saucer. He further described the ship as approximately 35 feet in diameter and is now known as the scout type craft. Aboard this craft was located three other male individuals wearing the same type of dress and identical in every respect with earth people.
“VAN TASSEL claims that the three individuals aboard the craft were mutes in that they could not talk. He claimed they conversed through thought transfers, and also operated the flight of the craft through thought control. He stated that the spokesman for the group claimed he could talk because he was trained by his family to speak. The spokesman stated that earthmen are using too much metal in their everyday work and are fouling up radio frequencies and thought transfers because of this over use of metal. According to VAN TASSEL, these individuals came from Venus and are by no means hostile nor do they intend to harm this country or inhabitants in any manner. He declared they did not carry weapons, and the spacecraft was not armed. He mentioned that a field of force was located around the spacecraft which would prohibit anything known to earth men to penetrate. VAN TASSEL claims this craft departed from the earth after 20 minutes and has not been taken back since.”
According to the FBI, Van Tassel added that, “through thought transfers with space men,” he had been able to ascertain that a third world war was on the horizon, which was likely to be “large” and “destructive;” that much of this correlated directly with certain biblical passages; that the war would not be “universal;” and that the “space people are peace loving and under no circumstances would enter or provoke a war.”
And to illustrate their benevolence towards humankind, the aliens, Van Tassel told his FBI visitors, had bestowed upon him some remarkable data, including information relating to the way in which the human lifespan could be extended to anywhere between three hundred and fifteen hundred years. “This principle was not developed by Van Tassel,” said the FBI.
Van Tassel then described his newsletter to the FBI agents, as J. Edgar Hoover was informed:
“In connection with his metaphysical religion and research, he publishes bi-monthly a publication in the form of a booklet called PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLLEGE OF UNIVERSAL WISDOM, YUCCA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. He declared this publication is free and has grown from an original mailing list of 250 to 1,000 copies. VAN TASSEL stated that he sends his publication to various individuals, Universities, and Government Agencies throughout the world. He declared this publication is forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Washington, D.C. He stated that he has donated 10 acres of his ranch holdings to the college. He mentioned that many of the buildings will be made free of metal; which will be keeping within the request of the spacemen.”
And as with George Adamski, the FBI’s surveillance of - and interest in - Van Tassel extended until well into the 1960s. For more details see my book, On the Trail of the Saucer Spies.
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April 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am
That “banning” against the use of metal is rather peculiar. I sure wish our space brothers could return an install a new ban, this time against plastic!
April 25th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Thus was The Integratron built of wood!
Actually, I’m not sure, but there may be some nails and other bits of metal. As often as I’ve been around it, I’ve yet to go inside.