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MI5: Crop Circle Makers

Posted by Jon King on Jan 06, 2010

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Explosive new film by Richard D Hall exposes alleged MI5 psy-ops agents in crop circle hoaxing operation…

MI5: Crop Circle Makers

By Jon King

The Hidden Truth

An explosive new documentary aired on Sky Channel’s Controversial TV (Channel 200) has revealed MI5 operatives as the makers of some of the most complex crop circles.

Crop Circles – The Hidden Truth investigates claims that Britain’s Security Service MI5 recruited agents to design and make crop circles as part of a government psy-ops program.

In the film, director Richard D Hall (left) “uncovers the involvement of MI5 in crop-circle making,” and claims that “we are naming certain individuals who we believe are involved in UK psy-ops disinformation”.

He added: “I have found that the world of crop circles … has what I call an ‘information war’ going on. I believe that much of this information is being spread by intelligence agencies via their ‘operatives’—researchers or journalists who are broadly accepted by most in the crop circle or UFO community.”

As well as investigating the involvement of British intelligence agencies in the crop circle phenomenon, Hall also explores the mystery of whether the circles are man-made—or whether some might be “genuine”.

With the help of researchers David Cayton, Robert Hulse and Roy Dutton, he settles on the opinion that a small percentage cannot be explained.

But it’s Hall’s claim of MI5 involvement in the phenomenon that gives this film intrigue. The added fact that he is prepared to name those he suspects as being agents, doubly so.

“I now know who several of them are and in the coming months I hope to expose these individuals to the world and end the disgraceful psy-ops program which MI5 has been peddling for decades.”

MI5: Crop Circle Makers

Alleged Agents Named

The claims made by Hall centre on information he uncovered during the making of the film, in which he names self-professed crop circle maker John Lundberg as an MI5 agent.

Hall claims Lundberg (left) was recruited by the Security Service in 1992 after studying at a London art college which, as Hall points out, was situated next to MI5’s old headquarters.

“We revealed in the television documentary that Lundberg was probably recruited by MI5 in 1992,” Hall affirms. “Since then he has been paid by British Intelligence continually.

“We believe that due to the anomalies about the property where he lives, MI5 have also been providing him with free lodgings in London since around 1995.”

Hall also names other associates of Lundberg as MI5 agents, including well-known journalist and television broadcaster, Jon Ronson.

Hall believes “Ronson is an MI5 psy-ops operative” who works closely with Lundberg and whose programmes are largely made to promote government disinformation.

“If there is going to be a mainstream documentary about an ‘alternative view’,” Hall states, “it is often given to Ronson because he’ll make sure that truth and objectivity are the last things on the agenda.”

I have contacted Mr Lundberg and offered him the opportunity to confirm or deny the allegations made against him and his associates. To date I have received no reply.

MI5: Crop Circle Makers

Personal Witness

The idea that British and US intelligence agencies are involved in both the crop circle and UFO phenomena is not a new one, a fact to which I can bear personal witness.

As some of you might recall, I was myself responsible for exposing a CIA cell involved in these phenomena back in the mid-1990s, when I was Editor of the UK high-street magazine, UFO Reality. The article, which I called ‘The Aviary’, landed me in deep water.

But I wasn’t the only one to face the wrath of a few irate secret agents.

My good friend Colin Andrews, at the time the world’s heavyweight champion of crop circle research, suffered similar threats when he too confronted and exposed the infiltration of the crop circle phenomenon by British and US intelligence.

As revealed in an interview I conducted with him in 1995, Colin and I were both made aware that MI5 was behind the infamous ‘Doug and Dave’ hoax campaign in 1991, and that both British and American intelligence had played a hand in Operation Blackbird, the media-hyped crop circle surveillance operation carried out on MOD land in Wiltshire the previous year.

Operation Blackbird was later exposed as a government-sponsored disinformation exercise designed to debunk the crop circle phenomenon and discredit Colin Andrews on live TV.

To some degree at least, it achieved just that.

Colin also revealed in the interview how he was hounded and bribed by the CIA, and how his office was broken into and ransacked by thugs from the Las Vegas-based research facility I later exposed as a CIA front. An extract from the interview is included below.

[The full interview, in which other CIA operatives are exposed and named, can be read HERE…]

All in all I have to say I sympathize with Richard D Hall and wish him well with both his film and his ongoing endeavour to expose the hidden hand in crop circle making. Not because I wish to prevent innocent ‘landscape artists’ plying their craft, nor even because I desire to prove that ET is the real crop circle architect.

But because I, like Richard D Hall, object to my tax money being used to fund government games, especially when those games are turned on the British people.

In any event, something tells me this particular game is not yet over…

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MI5: Crop Circle Makers

CIA Agents Exposed And Named

Extract from original interview with Colin Andrews © Jon King 1995-2009.

A SWISS BANK ACCOUNT

JK: Can you think of any other instances where government agents have become involved in the crop circles research program?

CA: Yes, yes, I can. One instance in particular comes to mind.

A man who announced himself as working for the CIA back in, I think, June or July of 1989, approached me and said he had been assigned to ‘bring me into a plan’, or more precisely, ‘buy me into a plan’. He said this was the sole reason he’d come to England – that his assignment was to implement and execute this plan in which I was to be involved.

JK: And did he tell you what this plan was?

CA: He did, yes. He told me that certain individuals, all of whom you know, Jon – Richard Andrews, Terence Meaden, Pat Delgado, to name a few – he told me that the CIA were about to promote each major researcher in turn and then publicly debunk them. He said this was a ploy that was frequently used. He said they would give them a stage, encourage them to declare their hand and, one by one, take them out. He said that I would then be left with a ‘role’ that he later revealed to me.

JK: How did this man make his approach? How did he contact you?

CA: Well, when he first arrived, Pat and I were asked to go up to Pebble Mill television studios in Birmingham to take part in a program called Daytime Live. It was a kind of live TV debate situation. They were going to air the sequence that contained the mysterious sound detected in a crop formation and recorded by the BBC – the sound that destroyed a hundred thousand pounds’ worth of TV camera one sunny afternoon at a crop circle site in Wiltshire! As we came on air, they were running this particular sequence.

Anyway, on the morning of the program we were in our hotel, and we received a phone call from David Morgenstern of the BBC who said that they had received some communication from a man who claimed he had actually seen a crop circle being formed, and what questions should they ask that would allow them to know if he was telling the truth? So we gave them some questions that we thought would be helpful. When we arrived at the studios we were told that this man had been flown directly in to Birmingham and that we would not be able to meet him because they wanted it to be an absolutely first-time contact on air. As we came on air they panned to the studio audience, and this man described what he’d seen, live on TV.

JK: What exactly did he say?

CA: That he’d been out studying foxes in Scotland, and that one of the foxes on this particular night had refused to follow its regular path which, he explained, was not consistent with the usual behaviour of foxes. I don’t know if this is right or not, but it sounded plausible. The fox apparently refused to go any further and instead went back the way it had come. The man then apparently heard some rustling, and then he described the way this circle formed. What he was saying is that the fox had presumably sensed something strange and that after it had scampered off he witnessed the formation of this circle. But the point is that his live TV appearance seemed to legitimize him.

JK: You think this was his way of becoming accepted on the crop circle scene?

CA: Right. From that moment on his being seen in the presence of the crop circle researchers, myself and Pat in particular, became acceptable. It was his ‘way in’, so to speak.

JK: So what happened next?

CA: Well, some weeks later there was a rap on my door, and when I answered it I immediately recognized the man standing there. It was the ‘fox-study’ man. He said that he’d come to tell me something … he wanted me to get Pat Delgado over to my place because he wanted to talk to both of us.

Pat lived about seventeen miles away. It was late at night but I phoned him and he agreed to come over. When he arrived the man spent all evening into the early hours with both of us, asking question after question. He appeared to be comparing the answers I gave against those that Pat gave. Well, perhaps not surprisingly, Pat eventually grew more and more frustrated, and said to the man: ‘Look, exactly what have you come to tell us?’ But the man just shook his head, as if to say: ‘I’m not ready to tell you yet.’ So Pat just stood up and said something like: ‘Well, I’ve got better things to do with my time,’ and headed out the door and went home. He was very angry.

The guy accompanied me to the door to see Pat out (I didn’t know whether he was going to leave as well; I was rather hoping he would because I was pretty bloody angry about it, too) but as Pat left and I closed the door the man just spun round on me and said: ‘Get your jacket on. I want to tell you something.’

So against my better judgment I went through into the front room and told my wife I was popping out for a few minutes (I wanted to tell her so she didn’t become worried). We then went out.

JK: Where did you go at that time of night?

CA: We wandered down towards Andover town centre, then back up Salisbury Road, back and forth, back and forth, questions and more questions, most of a fairly general nature, but none of the questions were about me. Rather they were to do with things like, you know: Where were the circles? Who were we in touch with? What did we know, particularly about the Russians? That kind of thing. He was asking every question you could possibly think of that an intelligence agent would probably ask. But the conversation wasn’t going anywhere at all. As for myself I was furious, but I didn’t quite have the courage to walk away.

JK: But presumably at some point he told you what it was he’d come to tell you?

CA: Yes. When we eventually started to walk back towards my home he stopped on the pavement and said: ‘You are now one of us.’ So I said: ‘What do you mean by that?’ He said, simply: ‘CIA.’

When I asked him for ID he just laughed and said: ‘You really think a CIA agent would carry identification?’ And then he laughed again.

He told me I would never see his boss, and that he never saw his boss’s boss. He said that was the way it worked. He said that from here on in I was ‘one of them’. He gave me no say in the matter whatever. He never asked me if I wanted to be associated with the CIA, he just told me that from then on I was to consider myself one of them.

Following this he named a lot of people – most of whom were my colleagues in crop circle research – who were to be eliminated from the research program (he did not mean that they were to be killed or anything quite like that, but they were nevertheless to be taken off the stage, so to speak). And they have been. I have watched the process in operation for some years now, a process he openly told me about on that night. And every name he named that night has since been got at, and everything that he said would happen has happened.

JK: Could you give us an example?

CA: Well, for instance, the following year Terence Meaden was never out of the newspapers. Nobody else could get a look in. This is exactly what he told me would happen. But where is Terence Meaden now? Who knows what Terence Meaden’s latest ideas are? Answer: no one. Because, presumably, his stage has been taken from him – he’s been ‘taken out’. Pat Delgado was next, and we all know what happened to him. [Author’s note: sadly, Pat Delgado was so taken in by the Doug And Dave episode, and so shaken up because of it, that he retired from crop circle research soon thereafter, somewhat worse for wear.]

JK: Do you think there was a reason why you weren’t taken out, too? Did this man indicate why you should be singled out from the rest?

CA: He did, yes. The CIA guy told me that, so far as they were concerned, I seemed to have a particular affinity and contact with the public. ‘You have a way,’ is what he said. ‘The public identify with you.’

JK: And at the time, of course, you were getting a lot of media coverage.

CA: Yes, I was. There were really only two people in those days, Pat and myself. We’d written a book and it had sold a lot of copies. We were getting a lot of TV and radio coverage. But a decision seemed to be made that night that I was the one. I mean, if you look at it logically, it could have been either one of us. So this man must have been in a position to make a decision. He must have carried some authority within his agency.

JK: Right.

CA: So he chose me to go with this ‘role’…

JK: And what was this ‘role’?

CA: Once they had taken these other researchers out of the frame, so to speak, they wanted me to do something for them. He said I was to carry on being Colin Andrews, researching the phenomenon, just doing my thing, and at some point in the near future I would be asked to do one interview which would enjoy maximum, saturated media coverage. During the course of this interview I was to make one statement, and one statement only.

They wanted me to state publicly that the crop circle phenomenon was a hoax. When we got back to my home he said that he would show me how to say it and what to say. In return for this I was offered a bank account in Switzerland, in which would be enough money that I would never need to even think about money ever again. On top of this he said that they were in possession of some kind of ‘instrument’ which they would send to me within two weeks. He said that this instrument would allow me to identify immediately a real crop circle from a hoax – something that, presumably, could measure some or other microwave residue, or some other residual effect. He told me: ‘You will then be in a privileged position, and we will put you right out there as the number one crop circle expert.’ He then said that they would send me to a certain college … (which I know to be a government establishment, so my ears pricked up at this point) ... where you will be familiarized with coding structures. I mean, this is an absolute bloody horror story I’m hearing … I mean, I was … God, no one will ever know how I felt that night. I was terrified. I even cried. I was completely and utterly bloody freaked. I even saw my daughter the next day and I broke down while I was talking to her, too. I said to her: ‘Darling, I want you to forget everything I’ve ever told you about crop circles. I think I’m in terrible trouble. You know, I’m in bloody trouble.’ Of course, she didn’t know what I was talking about but I just wanted my family out of it. It took everything I knew to get over that ordeal and carry on a relatively normal life…

...So anyway … I was told that there would be another couple of contacts made and that these would be ‘voice-only’ contacts via the telephone. And sure enough they phoned me, but by this time I’d had time to think about the situation and I’d decided I was going to take his head off, you know. There was no way I was going to give them what they wanted.

JK: So what did you do?

CA: I was given a contact number at the Ministry of Defence and I rang that number and told them that I’d had this approach, but I was told they had no jurisdiction. Can you believe that? A British subject was being harassed by a member of US Intelligence and the MoD had no jurisdiction to protect me! My God! I mean, it really made me ashamed to be British. Anyway, they also told me that I was not to be concerned, that I should simply refuse to cooperate with them. They said that if I refused to go along with it there should not be any danger to me. Hah! I thought: ‘Thanks for the invaluable assistance!’

JK: And is that what you did?

CA: In the event, yes. That’s precisely what I did. I literally ignored the phone calls. And I guess, in retrospect, it might just have saved my life, the fact that I’d contacted the MoD. Perhaps they have a little more jurisdiction than they admitted to. Perhaps the fact that I contacted the MoD meant that the CIA dared not harm me in any way.

JK: So how did you know which calls to ignore? How did you know it was them?

CA: Oh, it was them, all right. The guy was on the answer machine saying: ‘Pick up the phone. Pick up the phone.’ But I didn’t. I just let it go. Then the voice said: ‘Ring me back at this number.’ And then they gave a number, but I didn’t ring back. A few days later they phoned again, and this time what they said was vile, and frightening. But my answer was: ‘Sorry, I’m not playing.’ And that was that so far as I was concerned. Like I said, perhaps they knew I’d contacted the MoD. Maybe, just maybe, this was enough for them to leave me alone.

FULL INTERVIEW HERE…

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main image: Rich Planet

colin andrews photo: The Official Colin Andrews Website