(NewsNation) — When John F. Kennedy became president in the early 1960s, there was a lot he knew about unidentified flying objects, aka UFOs, former Australian intelligence official Geoff Cruickshank told NewsNation’s “Reality Check with Ross Coulthart.”
But it’s what he wasn’t told that may be the more fascinating story, according to Cruickshank.
“He knew quite a bit as he entered the Oval Office in 1961, but what he didn’t know was the existence of a very, very highly classified program called Palladium that was injecting false (unidentified aerial phenomena) signals into the Soviet air defense system, messing with their heads,” Cruickshank said. “The man that was one of the masterminds of that program … was David Lamar Christ.”
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Christ, a scientist with the Central Intelligence Agency, was tortured by Cuban and Russian interrogators while in a prison in Cuba called the “Isle of Pines.” While there, Christ revealed all about the secret program.
Watch “Reality Check” dive into UAP/UFO activity during the Cold War in the video above.
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