The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week. MEMRI REPORTS MEMRI Daily Brief No. 586 – 'The Real Problem With Having The Americans As Your Allies Is You Never Know When They Will Turn Around And Stab Themselves In The Back' – Turkish
Michael S. Rosenwald15:57, May 24 2021
In 2007, United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called his colleagues Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye to a specially secured room in the US Capitol where highly classified information was discussed. Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, and Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, controlled funding for supersecret Pentagon operations. Reid wanted to put an idea on their radar, one that needed to be kept hush-hush not just for national security but because it was, as Reid s aides told him, kind of crazy. He wanted the Pentagon to investigate UFOs. “Everyone told me this would cause me nothing but trouble,” said Reid, a Democrat who represented Nevada, home of the military s top-secret Area 51 test site, a central attraction of sorts for UFO hunters. “But I wasn t afraid of it. And I guess time has proven me right.”