UFO TwitterThanks to the eagle eye of Twitter user @tploft2008, it has come to light that some distribution lists of the former Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS); where the subject matter was UFOs, had the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Australian Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) on that list. What was the FBIS?The FBIS was an open source intelligence component of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Directorate of Science and Technology. Its role was to monitor, translate and distribute the contents of foreign broadcasts to various components of the US government. The FBIS was dissolved in November 2005, and became the CIA Open Source Center (OSC.) For some of its life, its headquarters was in Reston, Virginia, USA. In 2015, the OSC became the Open Source Enterprise, which monitors radio, television and online. Documents@tploft2008 located a number of such documents including the following examples:1. A document dated 16 November 2000, where the subject was “Azeri Security Ministry denies Russian reports of UFOs flying over border.” Here the distribution list has a line “To RAYWAP/Attorney General.”2. A document dated 25 August 2001, subject “Azerbaijan Aerospace scientist says aliens have ‘resesarch base’ in Caspian.” This distribution list has “To RAYWAP/Attorney General D Branch Canberra…
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ASIO and DIO on distribution list for FBIS material
