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Harald Malmgren

2024-08-21what this date marks is not recorded

American trade negotiator and lobbyist (Nixon/Ford-era USTR official). In 2024, shortly before his death, claimed he had been briefed on "otherworld technologies" by CIA officer Richard Bissell, investigated an alien object recovered during a nuclear test on President Kennedy's behalf, and personally confronted Curtis LeMay during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A 2025 investigation using declassified FBI background checks and his own 1960s job applications found no evidence for these or his other self-described government/intelligence roles.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record, after the automated screen proposed "neither" for it. The screen's "neither" only means that no term from its vocabulary fired; the deciding phrase here is this entity's own: "claimed he had be". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

None of this entity's 5 connections has a source you can open. 1 carries no citation at all.

5 connections

ColourWhistleblowersJournalistsScientistsFFRDCs
  • Douglas Dean Johnson names a source we do not hold
    Douglas Dean Johnson published an investigation disputing his claims
    Douglas Dean Johnson investigation, May 2025
    Caveat REWORDED 30 August 2026. "Investigated and refuted" is this map asserting, in its own voice and between two living men, that the investigation succeeded. Refuted is a verdict; disputes is what an investigation does. The sentence now names who made the claim so a reader can weigh it against the person who made it. Nothing about Malmgren's own account is changed and his entry still carries it.
  • Pippa Malmgren names a source we do not hold
    his daughter
    Pippa Malmgren bio (daughter of Harald)
  • Thomas Townsend Brown names a source we do not hold
    late-life focus; Malmgren claimed a foreign-intelligence source gave him documentation of Townsend Brown collaborating with Tesla on gravity (podcast claim, uncorroborated)
    UAP roundtable podcast (Harald Malmgren / program-tracker panel)
  • Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) names a source we do not hold
    reportedly used IDA as an NSC-adjacent cover (podcast claim, uncorroborated)
    UAP roundtable podcast (program-tracker panel)
  • Gary McKinnon nothing behind it
    says Malmgren separately described naval intelligence UAP secrecy as an inescapable "closed system"

1 correction to this record

Generated from the record, not written by hand. Every change keeps what the map used to say, because a correction nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having been wrong.

Harald Malmgren → Douglas Dean Johnson
his claims were investigated and refuted
Douglas Dean Johnson published an investigation disputing his claims