Government / Military

Gene Poteat

1960

S. Eugene Gene Poteat - CIA electronic-warfare officer (later first president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers) who ran Project Palladium. In a 2019 War Zone interview he and TD Barnes argued that Cold-War radar-deception techniques are a plausible conventional explanation for the Navy Tic Tac encounters.

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confirmedProject Palladium

the CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran the program

Source: The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75

confirmedCentral Intelligence Agency

CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran Project Palladium

Source: Wikipedia: Gene Poteat

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