Getting Spooked

Getting Spooked

Forbidden Science Dispatches #4B

James McDonald the UFO Scientist, Betsy McDonald the Socialist, and the Surveillance of 1970s American Activists

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Tanner F. Boyle
Dec 21, 2023
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Read Dispatch #4A here.

Read Dispatch #1 here.

Revolutionary fervor, rampant infiltration and surveillance, as well as a permeating (but justified) paranoia clearly defined the late 60s and early 70s. Although one would expect these topics to be far away from the UFO issue, there is some curious overlap in one of Vallée’s later journal entries. James E. M…

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