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Sidney W. Souers

First Director of Central Intelligence, alleged MJ-12 panel member · US · b. 1892–1973
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Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers was the first Director of Central Intelligence, establishing the organizational framework that would become the CIA. In MJ-12 lore he served as the committee's executive secretary and administrative coordinator, leveraging his intelligence-community architecture expertise to build the compartmented information channels that allegedly kept the UAP program hidden from Congress. His subsequent role as the first Executive Secretary of the newly created National Security Council gave him unparalleled access to the highest classification infrastructure in the U.S. government.

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Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers was the first Director of Central Intelligence, establishing the organizational framework that would become the CIA. In MJ-12 lore he served as the committee's executive secretary and administrative coordinator, leveraging his intelligence-community architecture expertise to build the compartmented information channels that allegedly kept the UAP program hidden from Congress. His subsequent role as the first Executive Secretary of the newly created National Security Council gave him unparalleled access to the highest classification infrastructure in the U.S. government. Souers was the consummate intelligence bureaucrat, and his organizational genius is credited in the lore with designing the secrecy architecture that persisted for decades.

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