Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim
"It is easy for three people to keep a secret, as long as two of them are dead." B. Franklin
A secret can be kept successfully (for a time) if all of the knowlegdeable parties feel their is a serious need to keep it.
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Unless The Powers That Be (TPTBTM) could convice everyone involved that the earth was doomed if it got out, keeping knowledge of ET secret would be impossible. Someone wouldn't be convinced, someone would think it wrong to withhold, someone would have an agenda, someone would brag, someone would want money...
Franklin was right.
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hoaxorreal addresses this in the opening post with a link to a newspaper article discussing the Brookings Report which said that the discovery of intelligent aliens might lead to the collapse of civilization. Of course, all it takes is for one person in the know to disagree with that conclusion.
I've never read it, but I don't think the Brookings Report was an advisement to cover-up any evidence of ET, but rather an advisement to prepare for the potential outcome of such a discovery. In other words, even the Brookings Institute realized that it would be impossible to keep such a discovery (were it ever happen) under wraps.