[Это копія поста изъ телеги.]
The details are murky, but it seems clear that at the very least a Western intelligence element existed alongside the search for the Yeti. The mixture of cloak-and-dagger spy work with anomalous primate research seems almost comical in its unfolding. It raises the question, who was not working for the CIA or British intelligence in this operation [Slick-Johnson Nepal Yeti expedition]? Carleton Coon spied on Tom Slick, who may have been a spy himself. Coon worked with Slick, but did not trust him, nor did he care for Peter Byrne, another alleged agent. Coon told fellow spy George Agogino to watch himself round Slick, and Agogino heartily agreed. Did Carleton Coon do anything in Asia besides hunt monsters? As with any study of intelligence operations, the hidden motives, demagoguery, secret documents, sealed archives, and the fog of the cold war make it difficult to be sure just what happened until more official documents are made available. To add one last intrigue to the story, this author received an interesting reply to attempts to procure Freedom of Information Act requests from the United States government over this issue. The CIA supplied once-classified documents on the intelligence work of Dillon Ripley, Carleton Coon, and others. Whenever I made a search term request they happily gave me what they had or requested further information to help them make a more thorough search, then sent that material along. When I made requests for information they did not have, I received almost apologetic letters stating they did not have any materials on that topic. When I made a request using the search terms, YETI and ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, however, they did not say they had no such materials. The terse and cryptic reply stated “the mission of the Central Intelligence Agency is primarily concerned with the collection of foreign intelligence matters that affect the national security of the United States. Therefore, we must decline to process your request.” This suggests they have documents on these topics, but they are considered national security, so the information will not be released. Ivan Sanderson’s ranting about the importance of getting the Yeti before the Soviets may have had some basis after all.
Brian Regal – Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology (2011), p. 51
Контекстъ:
“Like Dillon Ripley and Carleton Coon, Agogino had served with the OSS in Asia during the war—many of the scientists investigating anomalous primates during this early phase had military intelligence as well as Asia in common. The Soviet government in Moscow noted the intelligence connec- tion with Slick’s operation and saw it as “a diabolical anthropological maneuver aimed at the subversion of Communist China.” In classic cold war rhetoric the Russian newspaper Izvestia said the Americans only searched for the Yeti as a cover to spy on and gather intelligence about the Nepalese-Tibetan border. The Chinese government com- pared the Slick expedition to others then searching for the biblical relic of Noah’s Ark along the Russo-Turkish border [“Soviet See Espionage in U.S. Snowman Hunt,” New York Times (April 27, 1957):8].
On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik and the world turned its attention to the heavens. The International Geophysical Year also began in 1957, a worldwide operation with dozens of countries engaging in research activities on various earth sciences, especially in the polar and frozen zones of the world. While this all went on, the Russians also looked for a Snowman. Not to be left behind with a monster gap, Russian scientists began nosing around the Pamir Mountains northwest of Nepal and Tibet, along the Chinese border. Russian investigators like Sergei Obruchev and Boris Porshnev “collected all available material in the Soviet Union, China and Mongolia” [“Soviet Scientists Trail ‘Snowman,’” New York Times (November 16, 1958): 122] on the Yeti. As will be explained later, the Russians, officially at least, seemed to go back and forth during this period.”
Ibid., pp. 44-5
Къ слову: упомянутый выше геологъ Сергѣй Обручевъ – сынъ Владимира Обручева, также геолога и знаменитаго автора “Плутоніи” – написаннаго въ 1915 и опубликованнаго въ 1924 году научно- (и просвѣтительски-)фантастическаго романа, построеннаго на (фантастической) предпосылкѣ, что земля полая внутри. Гипотеза полой земли – извѣстный оккультный тропъ, помимо прочаго теософскій. Геологи и палеонтологи – вообще интересные люди, взять хотя бы “Ивана” “Ефремова”, чье творчество заодно также не чуждо эзотерикѣ.
It was nothing, it was business, but it left an ugly mark: соединеніе паранормальнаго, оккультнаго, темъ вродѣ происхожденія человѣка (предѣльно расіализированной и оттого завязанной на фашистскія / нацистскія повѣстки, см. неплохое, несмотря на легкомысленное названіе, изслѣдованіе “Strange Creations” Донны Косси) или, скажемъ, инопланетянъ, восходящихъ, навѣрное, къ ренессансному герметизму, далѣе Сведенборгу, но въ узнаваемой современной формѣ – ко всё той же теософіи, с параполитикой въ лицѣ, какъ минимумъ, спецслужбъ – довольно типичный паттернъ.
Какъ разъ недавно инопланетяне начали всплывать опять, въ связи съ Covid-19 Bill: изъ перваго попавшагося вотъ, вотъ или вотъ.
Заодно переименовали UFO въ UAP (‘unidentified aerial phenomena’); ребрендингъ!
(Если нужны переводы цитатъ – сдѣлаю.)