The CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK was a citizens' watchdog and oversight group on government accountability and a network of researchers, investigators and intelligence gatherers whose primary focus was on the government' so-called Black Budget programs at locations such as at the operating base at Groom Lake, Nevada and research on environmental impact of such programs. A loosely-knit network, CI
VINTEL CENTRAL now support groups such as the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), the nation's largest and most well-funded citizens' watchdog group on government accountability. CIVINTEL NET/OPERATIONS also focus on the research on the U.S. intelliegence communities' manipulation (and, in some cases) creation of certain ''beliefs in UFOs" in counter intelligence operations. Its present focus is on the study of how a segment of the population's "beliefs in UFOs" have been manipulated (and in some cases, even created) and taken advantage of by the U.S. intelligence community and by the military in counter intelligence operations, even while they themselves and the government continue to be perplexed by this enigmatic phenomenon which they cannot explain and thus will not disclose to the public. The Civilian Intelligence Network fully supports such organizations as the Aerial Phenomena Investigations Team (based in Washington, D.C.) which stated that:
"The serious study of UFOs has been suspended for decades. The entire field of UFOs has become a toxic swamp of pseudoscience, puerile pranks, sophisticated hoaxes, conspiracy mongering, shoddy and often unethical research, new age claptrap, cheap entertainment and true belief. Although we agree with the mainstream scientific consensus that the evidence for alien visitation is not persuasive, we think there are hints that something unknown may be going on, although judging whether or not that unknown is extraterrestrial is premature at best." E-mail: [email protected]
