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The Good-Bye Man
Thomas Townsend Brown was, among many other things, one of the foremost pioneers in the capture of packets of radiant energy from the earth, air, and sea. Each time we pick up a cell phone, turn on a television, or dial in a radio station, we are grabbing similar invisible signals.
Those who retrieve and analyze these energy packets in the service of spycraft are the unseen spooks of the espionage world and they owe their careers to the man who was, perhaps, one of the premier spooks of all time.
Although the United States was without an intelligence network at the start of World War II, that would never again be the case afterward. Indeed, the tremendous advances in the three R's (radar, rocketry, and reconnaissance) that occurred during the war years meant that spycraft would soon encompass much more than the traditional cloak and dagger methods.
The CIA and Military Intelligence agencies would give birth to the National Security Agency And NASA's black counterpart, the National Reconnaissance Office, was a deep secret for the first thirty years of its existence. But the history and evolution of these and other intelligence agencies has been well covered by James Bamford and other authors.
Linda Brown's story is, on the other hand, a completely human one. She is certain that her father's genius was employed in the service of black operations projects and that her mother knew and protected many of his secrets. She now believes it is time to bring his work back into the "white" world, and hopes that her memoir will open doors for future investigators.
Her story is part oral history, as seen through a young girl's eyes: “Daddy said the brass was coming to see a demonstration.”
It is part love story: once upon a time a beautiful equestrienne fell in love with a good-looking classmate who aspired to become a "Secret Agent Man.”
And it is part magic: extraordinary things happen to and around those who are touched by it.
Those who retrieve and analyze these energy packets in the service of spycraft are the unseen spooks of the espionage world and they owe their careers to the man who was, perhaps, one of the premier spooks of all time.
Although the United States was without an intelligence network at the start of World War II, that would never again be the case afterward. Indeed, the tremendous advances in the three R's (radar, rocketry, and reconnaissance) that occurred during the war years meant that spycraft would soon encompass much more than the traditional cloak and dagger methods.
The CIA and Military Intelligence agencies would give birth to the National Security Agency And NASA's black counterpart, the National Reconnaissance Office, was a deep secret for the first thirty years of its existence. But the history and evolution of these and other intelligence agencies has been well covered by James Bamford and other authors.
Linda Brown's story is, on the other hand, a completely human one. She is certain that her father's genius was employed in the service of black operations projects and that her mother knew and protected many of his secrets. She now believes it is time to bring his work back into the "white" world, and hopes that her memoir will open doors for future investigators.
Her story is part oral history, as seen through a young girl's eyes: “Daddy said the brass was coming to see a demonstration.”
It is part love story: once upon a time a beautiful equestrienne fell in love with a good-looking classmate who aspired to become a "Secret Agent Man.”
And it is part magic: extraordinary things happen to and around those who are touched by it.
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First published March 27, 2011
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