Dear Nate,
I saw that same conspiracy as well.
I suppose the value of this story is to remind me that psi, military, and paranoia are a very bad mix when put together; to be aware that just because people are military, doesn't necessarily make their personal beliefs accurate; and to be careful when researching stories of high strangeness not to fall into a group mental health vortex like this one.
Military and paranoia will ALWAYS be together. Militaries only exist because of paranoia. Namely, the fear of losing one's own homeland.
I have no idea what the Gulf Breeze Six where ultimately up to, but I can see that it takes $145.96 USD on Amazon to get that book.
Well actually, a quick look at the comments section yields this:
"Unbroken Promises" is first of all Mr. Davis's autobiography. He is a psychic trained in Silva Mind Control who eventually goes to work for the NSA. Davis, who is also keenly interested in consciousness expansion, learns how to go into deep meditative states, to the point of meeting spirit guides, such as Kia, who claims to be from a planet forty-five light years away. Yet Mr. Davis also is a religious, or better-stated, spiritual man, and he repeatedly asks Jesus for help in all his endeavors. To some having contact with aliens while believing in Christ might seem strange!
The real story of "Unbroken Promises" occurs during the summer of 1990, when Davis and 5 other mililtary personnel begin to dabble in the paranormal while stationed in Germany, eventually to the point of communicating with spirits through an Ouija board. They have 7 sessions with these spirits. At first there isn't a totally religious overtone, but quickly more spirits come through, and almost all of these spirits use the names of apostles of Jesus. The messages they give are a mixture of good ol' Biblical global apocalypse, a la the Book of Revelations, along with specific directions to the 6 humans to leave their posts and return to America, to help with the "big changes" that are imminent. They are told not only the approximate date to go AWOL, but also, repeatedly, that they will be protected from danger.
So the 6 do go AWOL, ending up in Gulf Breeze, FL. Unfortunately they are caught, and initially are treated like hardened criminals who have engaged in espionage. After about 3 weeks of imprisonment, during which the story becomes a public scandal, they are not only released, but almost unbelievably are given a choice - they can actually remain in the military or receive honorable discharges (they of course choose the latter)! In short, all the predictions that the spirit guides make concerning their welfare come true (assuming none are omitted, and I question that). We are told implicitly and explicitly that in fact the 6 do have "friends in high places," and one of the important points made in the book is that the US govt. is divided into "good" and "bad" factions.
Meanwhile, here is a run down of a conspiracy that, at the very least, has more merit than that....
So when Michael Riconosciuto was arrested over a so-called "drug lab" in the 1990s is when he first started talking about Thomas Townsend Brown, claiming that the barium powder found on his property was related to mining technologies originally developed by Brown.
The drug trial was a complete sham and played out as follows: The DOJ claims to have Michael on tape selling drugs. The tape is never entered into the evidence file. Michael's assets are seized and he is forced to rely on a court-appointed attorney, who never reviewed the file. The courts are told about the video by the DOJ, of whom they assume would never lie about evidence. The court never sees the video, which at this point doesn't even exist physically anymore. The DOJ refuses to turn it over and forces the court to rely on their word. Danny Casolaro traveled to Tacoma to provide some assistance, where he was met by Ted Gunderson. Vali Delahanty disappeared before testifying on their behalf, and her skeleton was found some months later with a shot to the back of the head. Michaels attorney Dennis Eisman was shot dead in a parked car, and his other attorney John Crawford, died of a heart attack in a manner similar to Alan Michael May.
Because Thomas Townsend Brown was something of a celebrity figure in conspiracy circles, it is entirely conceivable to me that Riconosciuto grabbed him out of one conspiracy magazine and rewrote him into yet another conspiracy. I believe he is innocent of the drug charges, but as for whether he ever really knew anything about Brown... I cannot say and would not assume that just yet.
HOWEVER, Raymond Lavas comes here to divulge that Robert Maheu was developing submarine technology with Brown's work. And that he also worked with Riconosciuto on the over-drive detonator, which used the same principles. Finally, he says that intersecting polarized laser beams in a VAX 11730 system (with two RA80 RLO II disks and a corresponding 1625 BPI 9 track tape on a TU80 tape drive) are the key to the PROMIS software encryption that Marcus G Kuhn claimed Riconosciuto refused to reveal to him.
Lavas turned over the empty disks to the Brooks committee, who failed to use them properly, because they where encrypted with the same 10-digit codes that Paul Morasca and Mary Quick where murdered over. When Michael realized that they where killed by the US Government, he shelved the codes into storage, where the key to the PROMIS scandal remained hidden until Lavas handed it over to some investigators who failed to have the technical knowledge needed to operate the VAX 3900 component that decodes the twin VAX 11730s.
Now all of this is ancient history copied from Cheri Seymour's own book, and I don't mean to force any of it into the story of Thomas Townsend Brown. All we have are hints from Raymond that Peter Wright, Robert Maheu, and Michael Riconosciuto ALL used Brown's technology for their own unique purposes. We know too that Raymond knew Douglas Kendall, the man who orchestrated the fall of Gough Whitlam.
