Sir Eric M. Gairy,
Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs of the Caribbean
Island nation of Grenada, spoke before the United Nations, General
Assembly, Thirty-Third Session, 32nd Plenary Meeting, on Thursday, 12
October 1978.
The key points of Sir Eric’s U.N. speech, which are relative to this article, are quoted below an underlined.
182: "During our four
years of membership in the United Nations we have raised many matters
of importance and some of which have been considered innovative, others
were current and regular but our views ushered in new thoughts about
them, thoughts that aroused new vistas in an attempt to tackle
traditional thought-patterns. And still further we have been
introducing some very thought-provoking subjects of world importance
and world concern, subjects considered by some to be strange and
extraneous, but which we feel are sufficiently important and
significant to merit our constant articulation and review of them,
however and whenever the opportunity permits. Permit me to refer to
only a few: the question of women’s rights, the universality of God,
economic cruelty, the problems of man and his environment, disarmament,
man and his material and spiritual behavior, the Bermuda Triangle,
unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial phenomena,
decolonization and territorial integrity, human rights, and undue
solace given to terrorists."
It is reported that
prior to returning home to Grenada Sir Eric visited with President
Jimmy Carter, during which they discussed their individual UFO sighting
experiences and the pending U.N. resolution. It is also reported that
Zbigniew Brzezinski attended this meeting.
Sir Eric returned to
New York City on March 12, 1979 to meet with the then Secretary General
of the United Nations, Kurt Walheim. The official purpose of this
meeting was to discuss the fact that on December 18, 1978, the United
Nations General Assembly voted to approve decision 33/426, inviting
U.N. Member States "to take appropriate steps to coordinate on a
national level scientific research and investigation into
extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects, and to
inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research and
evaluation of such activities." The United States was the sole U.N.
member nation, which unsuccessfully attempted to block that 1978 UN
E.T. resolution.
The efforts made by the
United States to block this United Nations resolution was by exerting
various forms of pressure on a number of other member nations.
On the very day that Sir Eric was to visit with Kurt Walheim and
discuss the UFO resolution, it was learned that a Cuban sponsored
Marxist group, known as the New Jewel Movement (NJM), had overthrown
him and his government. The NJM was led by a young attorney named
Maurice Bishop, who along with 46 others planned and executed the coup
using weapons smuggled into Grenada in a barrel of petroleum jelly.
At this point Sir Eric
was stranded in the United States, during which he lived in New York
City and spent considerable time broadcasting anti-Cuban and
anti-Communist radio messages from station WLIB, to listeners on
Grenada and the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. During his
stay in New York Sir Eric was under constant US Government surveillance.
Maurice Bishop
and the NJM responded to Sir Eric’s radio messages with some radio
messages of their own. Other than trying to hang charges of corruption
on him and his cabinet members they concentrated on destroying Sir
Eric’s character in particular. They emphasized that a search of Sir
Eric’s home brought to light physical evidence that he practiced
"Voodoo." They also said that they learned that he arranged and
participated in sexual orgies during which drugs were used. They also
said that his declared belief in the reality of UFOs was just another
piece of evidence that proved beyond all possible doubt that he was
mentally defective.
Oblivious to what was
going on the Island of Grenada at the time, I was living in the
community of Mira Mesa, which was located a few miles north of San
Diego, California. At the time I was director of the "Molecular Energy
Research Institute" which was engaged in the construction of a device
intended to extract entrapped crude oil from tar sands and shale rock.
Our office and laboratories were located directly across the roadway
from the "Miramar Naval Air Station."
I remember that it was
a Monday morning when Don B….. came into the office filled with
excitement. Don was in the public relations business and also managed
the funds, which a Canadian oil company had invested in our project. As
a sideline Don also restored classic cars (a subject that will be
mention again).
Don started our
conversation with the question: "Do you know Sir Eric Gairy?" My answer
was "no." The name was slightly familiar, but I had no idea who Don was
talking about.
Don went on to explain
how he on occasion attended meetings of a group calling itself the
"Dilettantes. The group met once a week in La Jolla, California to
delve briefly into subjects such as French cooking, art, travel
destinations, and even UFOs. The subject of UFOs was one they just
could not leave alone; an UFOs were the subject of the previous Friday
night meeting that Don attended.
Don went on to say that
Sir Eric Gary, the recently deposed Prime Minister of the Caribbean
Island of Grenada was also present at the meeting. Sir Eric asked the
host if he could address the group and obtained immediate permission to
do so.
Sir Eric first
asked the group if any one of them could help him locate any of the
people he had listed on a sheet of paper. Don said that he could have
fainted when the first name Sir Eric read from his list was mine.
Don was quick to tell Sir Eric that he knew me personally and could arrange for us to meet.
That afternoon I met Sir Eric Gairy in Don B…..’s Point Loma home that was on a hillside that overlooked the Pacific Ocean.
Sir Eric first informed me that he preferred to be addressed as Doctor Gairy.
Dr. Gairy was
accompanied by a young African American minister (who’s name I can not
recall). I really can’t remember anything the young man might have
said. I did become aware that Dr. Gairy was the Reverend’s houseguest.
Both of these gentlemen were well mannered and very well dressed.
This meeting was one of
many that Dr. Gary and I had over the following two weeks. Some times
we met as much as two times a day either at Don B….. house, at the
Molecular Energy offices and at various restaurants for lunch or dinner.
Eventually Dr.
Gairy’s companion (the young minister) disappeared and Scot ….. (a
friend of mine) or Jennifer B….. (Don B…..’s daughter) became Dr.
Gairy’s chauffeurs and tour guides. They escorted Dr. Gairy to the Zoo,
Sea World and the Ruben H. Fleet Space Center.
I learned from
Scot that Dr. Gairy had rented a studio apartment in a very run down
part of San Diego and was definitely being followed about by what
appeared to be government agents. A number of articles written about
Dr. Gairy, all make the point that he was under constant government
surveillance when he lived in New York and in San Diego.
On one occasion we went
to an early lunch at a restaurant that was located on a pier. In our
party was Dr, Gairy, Don B…., his daughter Jennifer, Scot and myself.
With in minutes 5 young men in black business suits joined us. Each
took individual tables, which surrounded us. That is none of them sat
together
.
In the course of
our conversation the relative locations of Grenada and the Panama Canal
came up. The room, which was silent, to begin with, suddenly got even
quieter. Dr. Gairy gave me a knowing glance and moved his eyes from
side to side to alert me. The conversation was immediately changed to
the bird life of San Diego and Grenada.
When we left, we were
sure to take some pieces of bread to feed the sea gulls that were
waiting patiently on the railing of the deck outside the restaurant.
Scot, Jennifer and Dr. Gairy walked down the deck and out of sight. Don
and I had parked one of his restored classic cars in another parking
area. From our position we watched as one of the "men in black" who was
in the restaurant came out and hurried after Dr. Gairy and the others.
Don and I watched as
the other 4 men in black came out of the restaurant together and got in
to an older model car that had at least 50 antennas placed on the roof,
fenders and trunk of the vehicle.
I quickly
scribbled a note to Don, which said: "The car could be bugged." With in
3 days of the event Don was able to sell the car along with any
electronic bugs the men in black might have planted.
Finally one afternoon
Dr. Gairy came to the Molecular Energy offices, I sent for some
sandwiches from a near by delicatessen. This was the first time we were
able to get together privately.
Dr. Gairy looked at me smiled and said: "Any questions?"
I inquired as to what
happened to the young minister who he was with when we first met. With
no hesitation Dr, Gairy told me that the "young man felt that his wife
was becoming infatuated with him and they mutually agreed it was best
for Sir Eric to find another place to live." He added that the whole
thing was simply in the young man’s mind."
My next question was:
Where did he learn of me and my interest in UFOs? He said, "after a
number of UFO sightings that were reported though out the island of
Grenada, he put out the word that he wanted to talk to anyone that had
any knowledge of UFOs or intelligent extraterrestrial life. From this
search, a woman contacted him that claimed she had telepathic contact
with extraterrestrials. She gave him the list of names he should
contact for more information. When he mentioned that he wanted to learn
as much as possible from me about the "Frequency Barrier" I knew Dr.
Gairy was seriously trying to solved the UFO mystery.
Dr. Gairy went on to
tell me that he always believed that UFOs were extraterrestrial space
craft, but he had very little time to study the subject. The Grenada
sightings force him give the subject his full attention. The question
in his mind was: What interest could any extraterrestrial race have in
the island of Grenada? If they made an open physical contact by landing
on the island, how was he going to deal with them? His advisors were at
a total loss as to what should be done.
Dr. Gairy owned a
string of restaurants on the island. Nightly he could be found at the
"Evening Palace" one of his night clubs at Morne Rouge above the
western point of a five-mile white sand beach. From this club it is
said Sir Eric conducted business like a small town American Mayor, who
also owned the local hardware store.
It said that for a fee
or a bottle or two of champagne a person could sit with the Prime
Minister and present him with a petition or complaint.
Dr. Gairy confirmed
this story to me about his nightly audiences at the "Evening Palace."
For as he said, "it was during an late evening at this night club that
a fisherman from the north east coast of Grenada came to him with a
story that would change his life forever." With in minutes of hearing
the fisherman’s story, he put together a group of people he trusted, a
small military unit with two trucks, and a photographer.
They followed the
fisherman north and arrived at the coast just before dawn. There they
met with two other fishermen that were standing guard over a
tarp-covered object. The tarp was removed to reveal a giant human body
that was between 7 1/2 to 8 feet in length. One of the fisherman
directed Dr. Gairy to the fact that the body had six fingers on each
hand. The body appeared to be of a white skinned man that had long
white braided hair. Sir Eric said the body appeared to be of a young
man, who if compared to a man of normal size would have been in his
early thirties.
By now Sir Eric had
concluded that he and his group were looking at an extraterrestrial. He
ordered the photographer to take pictures of the body with flash bulbs,
but had the foresight to tell the photographer to save some film and
wait for better day light.
The alien was
dressed in a skintight 1 piece dark blue suit the footwear was
attached. This appearance first fooled the fisherman that found him to
think that the body was that of a scuba diver that met with some
misfortune. After a closer examination they quickly realized that this
was not a scuba diver from this world.
Dr. Gairy said that one
could stretch the alien’s suit to about two feet from the body. The
weave did not separate. After releasing the material it would slowly
return to its original position on the body and during the course of it
doing so, emitted a low audible "humming" sound.
As the sun rose
it became evident to Sir Eric and his excited group that the beach was
covered by metal wreckage of various sizes. There were also pieces of
metal and "containers" rolling about in the surf. These items were
photographed.
When all the wreckage
they could find on the beach and in the surf was gathered it filled
about 1/2 the bed of one of the two pick up trucks that they brought
with them. With considerable physical effort they placed the covered
alien body on the bed of the second truck.
Among an estimated
number of 8 metal containers, they found that they were able to force
open two of them. The largest of the two contained specimens of fish
and plant life, as well as packets of sand and coral from the seabed.
Sir Eric had the
fisherman go further out to sea to search for more bodies and wreckage.
Three soldiers were left at the site to look for more wreckage and wait
for the fisherman to return. The fishermen never returned. The soldiers
were eventually ordered back to their barracks with additional orders
not to say anything about what they had seen.
Sir Eric paused in his story at this point, and stared at me as he waited for my reaction:
I asked him: What happen to the body? Was there an autopsy? Was the body preserved?
His answer was that the
only place that he would trust to perform a proper autopsy was at the
"Medical School." Though he would not say where he sent the body, I got
the feeling that he did in fact send the body to the school for
preservation, if not for an autopsy. I think he did this in order to
give himself time to think about whom else he was going to tell about
the alien, and what he could gain for his country and possibly what he
might gain for himself (?).
I also asked if
he ever got any of the other containers open? If so, what was in them?
His reply was he never saw any of the other containers opened, He said
that he ordered that any one who tried to open one would be strongly
punished.
My next question was: Who else knows about this event?
His answer was: "There
is a small number of people that I have confided in. Not being on
Grenada the orders I gave to those in the know, not to talk about this
matter cannot be enforced. I have no idea who these people might have
told."
I asked if he told Kurt
Walheim. He said he never got the time or opportunity. "Although the
alien body was really my only reason for arranging a one on one talk
with him, I was emotionally reacting to the rebellion and I knew I
could not prove the story, unless I was back in Grenada and personally
showed him the alien body. Returning to Grenada and being reinstated as
Prime Minister was my first priority."
My next question was: What do you intend to do about this matter in the future?
Sir Eric answered: "I am still formulating my plans."
After this meeting I
never met with or talked to Sir Eric Gairy again. He suddenly vacated
his apartment. I never heard a word as to where he went or what he did.
On October 19, 1983
Bernard Coard, a hard line member of the New Jewel Movement (the group
that over threw Sir Eric) led a military coup and placed Prime Minister
Maurice Bishop and other leading moderates under arrest. When a mob of
Bishop supporters freed the ousted prime minister and his allies from
prison, troops responded by killing dozens of protesters and executed
Bishop and also two other cabinet members.
THE U.S. INVASION of GRENADA
It is reasonable to
assume that a U.S. invasion of Grenada was planned as early as two
years before the revolution’s self annihilation (the Bishop over
throw), which gave the United States (Reagan Administration) the excuse
it had been waiting for.
The U.S. invasion of
Grenada came in the fall of 1983. The bloody coup in Grenada, along
with a presumed threat to American students attending the St. George’s
Medical School on the island, provided the U.S. with an excellent
excuse to eliminate a Marxist regime, which was allied with Cuba.
The island quickly fell
under American control. They were met by considerable resistance from
the Grenadian army and Cuban military units stationed on the island.
Heavy combat continued for several days, but as the invasion force grew
to more than 7,000 troops. The defenders either surrendered or fled
into the island’s hill country. Some fighting continued as U.S. troops
hunted down those who resisted the invasion to the bitter end.
U.S. combat forces left Grenada in the middle of December, after pro- American government was established on the Island.
The following is quote
from and article titled, " Foreign Policy In Focus" By Stephen Zunes.
He is an associate professor of politics and chair of the Peace &
Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, and serves
as the Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project. He
is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of
Terrorism (Common Courage, 2002).
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"The major
justification for the invasion was the protection of American lives.
Reagan administration officials falsely claimed that the island’s only
operating airport was closed, offering the students no escape. In
reality, scores of people left the island on charter flights the day
before the U.S. invasion, noting that there was not even a visible
military presence at the airport and that customs procedures were
normal. Regularly scheduled flights as well as sea links from
neighboring Caribbean islands had ceased as of October 21, however,
though this came as a direct result of pressure placed on these
governments to do so by U.S. officials. Apparently, by limiting the
ability of Americans who wished to depart from leaving, the Reagan
administration could then use their continued presence on the troubled
island as an excuse to invade. The Reagan administration admitted that
no significant non-military means of evacuating Americans was actively
considered.
Particular concern was
expressed over the fate of 800 American students at the U.S.-run St.
George’s University School of Medicine. The safe arrival in the United
States of the initial group of happy and relieved students evacuated
from Grenada resulted in excellent photo opportunities for the
administration. It appears, however, that the students’ lives were
never actually in any danger prior to the invasion itself.
Grenadian and Cuban
officials had met only days earlier with administrators of the American
medical school and guaranteed the students’ safety. Urgent requests by
the State Department’s Milan Bish to medical school officials that they
publicly request U.S. military intervention to protect the students
were refused. Five hundred parents of the medical students cabled
President Reagan to insist he not take any "precipitous action." Staff
members from the U.S. embassy in Barbados visited Grenada and saw no
need to evacuate the students.
The medical school’s
chancellor, Charles Modica, polled students and found that 90% did not
want to be evacuated. Despite repeated inquiries as to whether
Washington was considering military action, he was told nothing of the
sort was being considered. As the invasion commenced, Dr. Modica
angrily denounced the invasion as totally unnecessary and a far greater
risk to the students’ safety than Grenada’s domestic crisis.
Vice-chancellor Geoffrey Bourne and Bursar Gary Solin also declared
their steadfast opposition. The U.S. media focused great attention on
the students who were first evacuated and "debriefed" by U.S. officials
who generally supported the invasion. However, virtually no attention
was given to those who stayed behind, who tended to be more familiar
with the island and who largely opposed U.S. intervention. There were
no confirmed reports of any American civilians harmed or threatened
before or during the invasion. It was three days after U.S. troops
initially landed before they decided to take control of the second
medical school campus, raising questions as to whether the safety of
Americans was really the foremost priority."
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It is now clear
that the St. George’s Medical School was a prime location the U.S.
Military wanted to capture as soon as possible.
Even though it is also now very evident that the American students at the school were at no time in any danger.
I think it is safe for
me to conclude that Sir Eric by this time had passed on to the U.S.
government where he had place the giant alien body and the metallic
debris that was recovered that early morning on the island of Grenada.
It is known that a team
of specially selected Graves Registration (GRREG) personnel were
assembled on 27 October 1983 at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary in
Dover, Delaware. This group of experts, which were to serve as an
Identification team, were assigned to the US forces occupying the St.
George’s Medical School on the Island of Grenada. Their cover story was
they were sent there to identify the bodies of the crewmembers of two
helicopters that accidentally crashed during the invasion. Why were
specialists needed for this purpose?
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy
returned to Grenada in 1984, from exile in the United States. There he
suffered from a stroke, and became totally blind, he also became
mentally incapacitated. Sir Eric Gairy died on 23 August 1997. He was
given a state funeral as he was recognized for being a unique
personality in the history of Grenadian politics.
The reader can find a
great deal about Sir Eric Gairy by searching the Internet. You will
find that he is mostly described as once being a despotic dictator of
the Island nation of Grenada who was over thrown by a Marxist group of
rebels. Furthermore the reader will find that most author’s of these
articles relish in the fact that they have the opportunity to say that
Sir Eric was a strange person that believed that extraterrestrials
existed and were visiting the planet Earth.
I am pleased that I had
the personal honor and privilege of meeting Sir Eric Gairy. I found him
to be a gentleman of exceptional intelligence and truthfulness. I
believe that the real Sir Eric that I met would be best understood by
reading the speech he gave before the United Nations, General Assembly,
Thirty-Third Session, 32nd Plenary Meeting, on Thursday, 12 October
1978.
After the Invasion of Grenada President Ronald Reagan in several
speeches he said variations of the following statement:
"At our meeting in
Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by
extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join
forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis,
although I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion. It is
much more important to think about the problems that have entered in
our common home."
I wonder what put this idea in his head???
