Robert Goerman
does a great review of my new book:
Flying Saucers from the Kremlin: UFOs, Russian Meddling, Soviet Spies & Cold War Secrets.
Flying Saucers from the Kremlin: UFOs, Russian Meddling, Soviet Spies & Cold War Secrets by Nick Redfern
Paperback: 242 pages
Publisher: Lisa Hagan Books (June 9, 2019)
Review by Robert A. Goerman
Some governments need enemies. There must be reasons for keeping vital
secrets and building invincible armies. Enemies justify propaganda and
deception. Nowhere was this more apparent than during the Cold War
(1947-1991) between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. Humanity feared extinction from nuclear war.
American schoolchildren practiced surviving atomic weapons by diving
under their desks in futile "Duck and Cover" drills. Many countries
constructed fallout shelters. The antics of America's CIA and Russia's
KGB mirrored Mad magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" comic strip created by
cartoonist Antonio ProhÃas.
Rich and powerful men avoid losing wealth and influence.
Flying Saucers from the Kremlin documents whether the USSR used the
mythos of "flying saucers" to further the communist agenda and provoke
hysteria and paranoia in the western world. It also explores the
countermeasures of the United States and its allies. But this book is
not a skeptical look at the UFO mystery. Nick Redfern begins with an
important disclaimer: "There are real UFOs and there are
deliberately-crafted lies concerning UFOs."
Learning the
cloak-and-dagger accounts in this book is important for readers eager to
finally set the UFO record straight. Governments on both sides of this
Cold War were not suppressing knowledge and evidence of extraterrestrial
visits to Earth. These clandestine activities developed to perpetrate
and prevent espionage and psychological warfare.
So-called
"contactees" and flying saucer clubs were covertly scrutinized,
infiltrated, and intimidated. Official records verifying these facts
were not created as part of a disinformation culture by agents with the
foresight to know that future citizens could examine classified
materials using a Freedom of Information Act. Reports were composed to
be pertinent to the attitudes, perceptions, and context of the relevant
time periods. These documents are honest glimpses into our past.
It did not help that the "space people" loved communists and communism.
Have we been deliberately misled about many prominent UFO mysteries?
Nick Redfern is constantly blazing new trails to research. Flying
Saucers from the Kremlin held my interest captive. Redfern is the
hottest ticket in town.