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This talk is about the ways the many components of governments interact and
respond to challenging and anomalous events-highly relevant to hacking by all
definitions and at all levels. If you don't know the lay of the land, you can
not engage in appropriate research and reconnaissance, counter-measures, and
operations. The proliferation of reliable reports of unidentified flying objects from the
1940s forward represented just such a challenge. The phenomenon was anomalous,
well-documented, and certainly challenging—because, as Major General John
Samford said, "credible people have seen incredible things." The UFO History Group includes some of the best researchers in the
field. Richard Thieme was privileged to be invited to join the group and their
project which resulted, after nearly 5 years of work, in "UFOs and Government: A
Historical Inquiry," an outstanding work of historical scholarship that
nevertheless reads like a fascinating detective story. In almost 600 pages and
with nearly 1000 citations, the work illuminates the response of the government
since the early 1940s. how and why policies were set, and how they were
executed. The book has been recommended by CHOICE, the primary resource for
academic libraries, for inclusion by libraries at all levels because the book
stands out as "an exception" in a field filled with speculation (there is
virtually none in this book). Other reviews say, "this is the best book about
the UFO phenomena that was ever written" and "UFOs and Government is a triumph
of sober, conscientious scholarship unlikely to be equaled for year You have never heard a talk like this - about a subject that has been
ridiculed and marginalized intentionally for sixty years as a matter of policy
and politics. As Don Quixote said, "insanity is seeing things as they really
are." This speech uses UFO phenomena as dye in the arteries of "how things
really are." BIO: Richard Thieme has established a reputation for edgy
thinking, the mindset of a hacker, and radical clarity ("insanity is seeing
things as they really are," said Don Quixote). Jeff Moss said of him, "His
ability to be open minded. conspiratorial, ethical and subversive at the same
time is inspiring." Clint Brooks, Asst. Deputy Director of NSA (ret) said,
"Thieme takes us to the edge of cliffs we know are there but rarely visit." He is an author and professional speaker focused on the deeper implications
of technology, religion, and science for twenty-first century life. He has
published hundreds of articles, dozens of short stories, three books with more
coming, and has delivered hundreds of speeches. A novel, FOAM, is in progress
and "A Richard Thieme Reader," collecting fiction and non-fiction, interviews
and book reviews, will be published in 2013. Thieme speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies
and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and
creativity in response to radical change. He has spoken for numerous hacker,
security and intel conferences around the world. He recently spent a day at NSA
doing a speech, a panel, and a discussion. His column, "Islands in the
Clickstream," was distributed to thousands of subscribers in sixty countries
before collection as a book in 2004. When a friend at the NSA told him, "The
only way you can tell the truth [that we discuss during a decade-long project on
intelligence and ethics] is through fiction," he returned to writing short
stories, one result of which is "Mind Games," a collection of nineteen stories.
Other edgy realities are referenced in the recently published and critically
extolled "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry" to which he contributed, a
5-year research project using material from inside the military and intelligence
communities to document government responses to the phenomena from WW2 to the
present.
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