Thanks for mentioning The Vindicator Scrolls, Langley. I read Cosmic Conspiracy in the 80s and Vindicator when it first came out (1988 maybe? Early 1989 at the latest) and I'm often a little confused as to what was mentioned in which book. Deyo fascinates me because his descriptions of propulsion technology, while a bit fractured, seem to be much in the same ballpark as Townsend Brown. Constant reference to MHD, fluid flow, gyroscopic effects. Almost as if he stumbled on some of this material but without a lot of context to put it all together.
Now this jumped out at me:
Langley wrote:
On page 22 Stan cites his contact with Dr James Maxfield "who was a close associate of Dr Edward Teller. ...I was summoned ...to attend a meeting ...Dr Maxfield...(said) Dr Edward Teller had "overseen" some fifty or more projects which had been designing "flying saucer" type craft since the early fifties. (Maxfield) and Dr Teller had been on excursions to the South Pole including a sub polar jaunt by submarine; and he showed me photographs to prove the point."
Maxwell then points out to Stan that "the place for a young man like myself ...was Australia. There, I could finish off my work unhampered."
It's interesting to compare this story circa 1988 with his original story in Cosmic Conspiracy circa 1978.
http://au.geocities.com/psyberplasmic/ccS1-0.html
The Sun had just appeared over the horizon, as I sat down to my first cuppa Java for the day. My eyes caught the calendar on the wall.. "October 23, 1978".
My thoughts drifted back to my own training at the U.S. Air Force Academy sixteen years before. I remembered its rigid discipline and the beautiful, snow-covered landscapes that surrounded those of us who had lived there 7,000 feet up the slopes of the Rockies overlooking the world below. It was there that our fertile, young minds had been impregnated with post-hypnotic suggestions and crammed with subliminal data banks at speeds of up to 200 pages per second. When the 186 of us who had been 'programmed' by mind-control experts were prematurely released - ostensibly for cheating on our final exams - everyone had believed it. In my case, I had been lucky... because, for some reason, one of my instructors had 're-programmed' my mind just before I had left the Academy. I was reasonably certain that he had been a man of good report... a Christian, now, according to 'old friends'. It was partially his interference in my conditioning that had allowed me to eventually remember things that had been locked-away in my sub-conscious mind - without knowing the proper key sequence.
It had been quite spooky at first when I started having those incredible dreams. Three years had passed since I left the Academy; and I had not immediately associated my newly-found 'dream library' of science with the previous subliminal training. 'Visions' of new types of circular-shaped aircraft and spacecraft along with their associated technology had paraded through many of my early-morning 'dream times'.
As I sat and pondered the weight of the years of discovery and understanding that had led me to that moment there in the study, I suddenly felt very tired... very old for my age of thirty-three.
A bird flew past the study window and, briefly, I wished I could fly again... "Those were the days.." My favourite instructor pilot (I could never forget his name) had been Captain Miracle... I had really loved those hours in the sky - soaring and sailing in that tiny silver speck of a T-33 jet... It had seemed like being in another world. Up there, the scene had always been crystalline - especially above cloud level. My gaze fell upon the telephone scratch pad; and my thoughts returned to the conspiracy.
I remembered how word had passed down the FBI ranks to me and my ilk who had acted as patriotic informers on various international companies' unconstitutional activities in Middle-East-related affairs. "There's an intelligence war going on between Hoover and the CIA. You guys had better make tracks and wait till you're called back..." I had then been sent to Australia to 'keep a low profile' until Hoover recalled us. My last instructions had been : "stay put;... but if Hoover, himself, is either replaced by the president or dies suddenly, you will be on your own from that time forward until the 'victors' find you." The rest had become history.
The letters from Dr. James R. Maxfield arrived in Melbourne on the fifteenth of May 1972. They had been dictated six days earlier in Dr. Maxfield's radiation research clinic in Dallas, Texas. One of the letters instructed the recipient - to have a visit with Sir John Williams. Apparently, Dr. Maxfield had previously contacted Sir John about this author's coming to Australia... (see copies of this letter and the other as Appendix-4). The same letter also stated that the Chief Superintendent of the Aeronautical Research Lab. at Melbourne would be contacted by both Sir John and Dr. Maxfield on this author's behalf (so that he might seek employment there to continue his research into 'anti-gravity'). Dr. Maxfield's letter went on to say that he and Dr. Edward Teller were planning to come to Australia in October and hoped they might 'get together' with this author at that time.
The second letter was a copy of the one which Dr. Maxfield had sent to the A.R.L. Superintendent. It had told the superintendent that, although this author was then working as a computer systems analyst for a well-known tractor firm in Melbourne that he (Maxfield) hoped the A.R.L. could find a position for him - as this author had been working in a field that he (Maxfield) and Dr. Teller had been 'interested in'. This author knew what that 'field' was...: 'anti-gravity'.
In his last meeting with Dr. Maxfield in America in 1971, this author was told about various other research projects in America which had been or were under the watchful eye of Dr. Edward Teller. It was an incredible moment! It was like meeting the real Santa Claus... finding out that the mysterious 'they' really did have names and faces... and super technology. Dr. Maxfield told the author how he and 'Ed Teller' had 'sponsored other young minds' (like this author's) in the pursuits of the secrets of gravitational energy... It was mind-boggling. He went on to say that there had been over fifty 'antigravity' research projects in the U.S. since 1948!... (Some of the results of these projects and their accompanying contract numbers from the issuing authorities will be discussed in the next chapter).
This author then prepared two preliminary papers on electro-gravitic propulsion for the A.R.L. as per Dr. Maxfield's instructions. After a few weeks had passed, Dr. Tom Keeble - the director of the mechanical engineering division of the A.R.L. - called this author into the facility for a critique of his preliminary papers. Dr. Keeble with two of his research staff attended the closed-door meeting. A short time was spent discussing the papers and some of the somewhat embarrassing mistakes this author had made when preparing the material. After this, Dr. Keeble asked why this author had not stayed in America to finish his research.
This author then related the long story of his FBI involvement, his training at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and his subsequent and somewhat peripheral involvement in the U.S. 'anti-gravity' research program. Dr. Keeble looked as though he wanted to say something which he felt he could not because of certain 'restrictions'. His furrowed brow framed his bushy eyebrows as he finally said, "Look, we know your theory works;... your design is not the best for a fully-operational model;... but it will work... What has puzzled us the most is how you found out about it... about the project..."
He went on to say, something like "We knew that the Yanks - no offence meant - and the Canadians did some mind control or tuning experiments in the early sixties; but we thought they had abandoned it because so many of the test blokes had gone mental or suicided under the subliminal effects of the conditioning - Yet, here you are as living proof that they did succeed."
This author interjected saying, "Yes, that could be quite true; however, if it is then you have apparently made the assumption that I am not one of those who cracked up under the strain... haven't you?"
"Yes," he said as he smiled, "We have made that assumption here. Furthermore, I, personally, feel that your mind is one of those that they tuned to tap into - now, don't laugh - other people's sub-conscious minds."
Dr. Keeble tryed to say something more,... "You see, there's something like a group of us who ...ah..." This author interjected, "By group, do you mean a club or a formal organization?"
"No", he said, "...scientists, engineers around the world... we feel... well.. I..." and his voice trailed off leaving the sentence unfinished as he allowed one of his staff to add further comments on the earlier subject of 'mind training' before he, himself, joined into the same discussion. "...So you see", Dr. Keeble resumed, "your mind can theoretically eavesdrop on the collective knowledge of all those people in the world who study or practice any of the subjects your mind might ever wish to, consciously, address as a means to solving any problem requiring conceptual knowledge which you haven't previously gained by any other scholastic or practical means..."
Huh, I guess his story hasn't actually changed much.
(That last bit, about hypnosis and mind control and psychic dreams, would have really pegged my bullshit-ometer, if it didn't stack up with one of the recurring trends in the 'MKULTRA survivor' literature, which as far as I know only started really hitting the Internets in the 1990s. And, of course, it's the whole theme of the 'Caroline Group' and this forum.)
Anyway, looking at Deyo's claimed timeline:
* 1962 (sixteen years before 1978) - Deyo is in USAF Academy (presumably Colorado Springs) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... ce_Academy . Sixteen years later he's 33, so he must have been 17 or 18. Fresh out of high school? Must have had pretty good grades? How easy is it to go to the Academy?
* He flew a T-33 jet at the Academy -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-33_Shooting_Star
* How long does it take to do the Academy? Before the end of his course, he and a group of 186 participates knowingly or unknowingly in a 'mind-control' or hyno-learning experiment. That's a heck of a lot of people. They are all 'failed' from the Academy for cheating on finals, but presumably this is a cover for black projects.
Well well well, look at what Wikipedia dredged up:
The first Honor scandal broke in 1965, when a resigning cadet reported knowing of more than 100 cadets who had been involved in a cheating ring. 109 cadets were ultimately expelled. Cheating scandals rocked the Academy again in 1967, 1972, 1984, 2004[38] and 2007.[39] Following each of these events, the Academy thoroughly examined the etiology of the mass cheating in addition to alleged excessive pressures that the academic system at the time placed on cadets and made changes in attempts to reduce the opportunities for future incidents.
And a Time Magazine article from the era:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 39,00.html
Some apropos quotes:
But another result of the academic and disciplinary pressure is the dropout rate, which is considerably higher than at the other military schools. Two years ago, 93 cadets resigned in a mass protest against certain rules; in 1964, another 90 tried to withdraw for reasons never made public.
Zuckert will not review the cases for another two or three months. Until then, cadets returning home are still considered members of the Air Force; all have been given strict orders not to discuss the scandal, which left parents and friends in doubt over whether they were cheaters or had only tolerated cheating by others. The Air Force labeled the investigation "classified"; students who talked were threatened with dishonor able discharges and denial of the right to transfer their academic credits to an other school. It was, as one cadet parent put it, "a pretty strong weapon"−as well as a good way to guarantee that full details of the scandal will remain hidden for a long time to come.
Classified investigation, hmm? Hmmmmmmm.
So can we assume he 'graduated' in 1965? What about the rest of his 'class'? Is there any way of tracking them down and cross-correlating for mental illness caused by MKULTRA gone wrong?
* Three years after 'graduating' (1968) he starts having saucer dreams and decides he has unauthorised access to his experimental 'hypno-learning' library without the code phrase. Presumably this is where he believes his Townsend Brown et al material comes from.
* Deyo claims to have had 'FBI involvement' at some time. Presumably after the USAF Academy, since being an FBI officer at age 17 would seem to be hard. Doesn't seem like he stuck with it for long.
* Claims to have had 'somewhat peripheral involvement in the U.S. 'anti-gravity' research program' at this time. That could perhaps mean anything from 'was employed by a research group' to 'was completely on the outside but interested in it'.
* In 1971 he meets James Maxfield in America (in Dallas, Texas perhaps, where Maxfield has a radiation laboratory?) and told about 'fifty other gravity projects' under the control of Teller and Maxfield
* While in the FBI, his activities are somehow related to an intelligence war between J Edgar Hoover (who died in May 1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_edgar_ho ... _and_death) and the CIA (fronted at this time by Richard Helms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms who is the only DCI to be convicted of lying to Congress over CIA activities.) Before Hoover's death, he is told to go to Australia to 'lie low' and enters Australia by a 'very quiet manner'.
* In 1972 Deyo is in Australia working as a systems analyst for a tractor company and is introduced via letter from Maxfield to Dr Tom Keeble at the Aeronautical Research Lab in Melbourne. He submits some antigravity vehicle designs to the ARL. Keeble claims that the RAAF have libraries of saucer footage.
* Meanwhile, in 1972 or 1973, Helms destroys the MKULTRA records -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
* Watergate scandal begins with the hotel break-in on June 17, 1972 and ends with resignation of Nixon on August 9, 1974
* After contacting Dr Allan Hynek, Deyo is visited by ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian ... ganisation) and ASDL (Australian Defence Standards Laboratory, now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Sc ... ganisation ) staff.
* This spooks him so that he 'goes bush' for a year or two and resurfaces in Perth.
* In 1977 he watches the TV documentary 'UFOs Are Here' which he tapes and now has up on Youtube
* This spurs him into writing the first edition of Cosmic Conspiracy
Any interesting leads here?