"The Black Vault"..Is this site for real?

Question

http://www.theblackvault.com/documents/parapsychology/PsychokinesisandItsPossibleImplicationtoWarfareStrategy.pdf

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

I did not even have to read it, just look at the website address. If it were authentic government documents, it would say:

www.blahblahblah.gov

www.blahblahblab.org

Something like that.

Answer 3

The easy answer is "no", though I will admit that a lot of what they have does appear genuine. However, I have a personal experience that basically turned me off from them.

I have three long-term friends who work for the CIA. We're not in close contact, ever, but we do remain friends and they are on my Christmas card list. About August of 2004, someone involved with the site came up with a letter that was supposedly signed by my friend, which validated that there was a coverup surrounding some evidence of 9/11 and that it could seriously undermine public trust if this information ever came to light (or some tripe like that). My friend's name was given, but not his correct title. My friend is a software engineer and develops software used for signal interception (or something like that, I don't really understand it, and he doesn't ever go into detail, nor do I really need him to). He doesn't actually work the equipment used for said interception, but he does write the software to make it work.

Additionally, when I discovered this little bit of information, I tried to contact them to tell them their error and got told I had to prove that the letter wasn't real. I couldn't. However, I contacted my friend's section leader (through my friend) and reported this, along with a written affidavit that the people could not validate or authenticate the origination of such a letter. The CIA told me to ignore it. I haven't been back since.

Black Vault does have some real and valid documents, but the reality of it all is that it's never complete. Their goal seems to be to prove conspiracy, not to find the truth of the matter. As such, they cannot be trusted as a source of information (though they can be trusted to have bits and pieces to correlate).

Additionally, pieces of information their members have requested through the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) which they claim to have been redacted have had no redaction on similar requests I've made for the very same documents, and so I sometimes wonder if they intentionally black things out, or if the government really just doesn't trust them to be able to tell any story but "don't trust the government".

There's a difference between demanding the truth and trying to decide what the truth is before you get there. Where there are no records of something, it's suspect because in general this means that a high-level security clearance has been used to remove them (i.e., something to hide). However, be aware that records can take up to 18 months to be processed in, so the lack of a record of a recent event isn't really good proof. It's when this evidence isn't ever available that it becomes a truth issue.

What a lot of conspiracy theorists miss is that real facts must be used to justify the occurrences of what happened. I've laid my hands on amazing things simply by timing it right. I've had audio from Air Traffic Control towers on 9/11 which were in direct contact with the planes. I even laid my hands on the cell phone audio from Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania that day. But none of the factual evidence that I laid my hands on really pointed to a conspiracy within the government. It did point to a lot of fear, and the idea that Flight 93 was shot down, but there simply wasn't enough proof to make something like that work as a theory. In short, I lacked enough information to convince myself that it was the absolute truth.

And yet, Black Vault continued to claim for almost 3 years that there was ironclad proof of a cover-up, that they had evidence to support it, and that my finding was more evidence of the coverup.

Yeah, I'm pretty ticked off at them. Having had a friend die in one of the WTC towers, it feels almost like they're cheapening his memory. My finding pointed a direction, it wasn't solid proof. And yet they made it solid by declaring it so. It was removed.

Hope this helps... conspiracies do exist, but not at the extreme levels that people think they do. I like the tin-foil-hat stuff, but I'm not going to jump out over a limb and say something's true unless I have either personal experience or solid evidence that supports it.

Answer 4

Is the site for real? Yes. Is the specific document cited for real? Yes. Are all such documents available for real? Unknown.

Answer 5

Do you have a need to know?