[TOP SECRET // DOE-Q // HANDLE VIA RESTRICTED CHANNELS]

Note: Some pages missing. Several entries appear altered. Source integrity uncertain.

[FILE 79-10-14] Embassy Defection – Vienna

[Embassy Log – Vienna, 14 OCT 1979]

Subject: VOLKOV, Dmitri (Age 43, Soviet Spectroscopist). Entered premises 14:32 with briefcase, refused to surrender contents to local staff. Verbal statement: “I bring evidence of what Tunguska truly was.”

Status: DEFECTOR HOLD. Immediate extraction approved. Transfer: Andrews AFB.

Analyst’s Note (1992, FOIA review): GRU designated Volkov’s Tunguska work “sensitive” in 1963. Research continued only under direct military oversight. Reason for classification remains [REDACTED].

[Gap – 4 pages missing from embassy debrief transcript]

[DOSSIER SEGMENT] The Tunguska Anomaly

[Recovered Papers – Volkov Residence, Las Vegas, 1994]

“Spectroscopic analysis (1967–78) of site fragments: isotope ratios do not correspond to terrestrial or meteoritic baselines. Alloys suggest controlled fabrication, beyond 1908 industrial capacity. Blast modeling excludes random impact. Signature consistent with deliberate detonation.”

Witness Archive (Volkov Collection, 1962–67): Remote Siberian villagers describe object altering course mid-flight. Sample: “A tube of fire turned toward the horizon before the sky split open.”

Counterpoint – Dr. Sarah Chen (CIA Psych, 1980s): “Trauma distorts recall. Yet Volkov’s interviews came from villages without media exposure. Consistency across accounts is anomalous.”

[File Insert – Handwritten marginalia on Volkov’s notes:] “If not comet… then what? And why directed?”

[FILE 80-84] American Reception

Volkov’s post-defection whereabouts obscured. Public record gap: ~6 months.

[Personnel File Extract – DOE Clearance Roster]

Clearance: Q-Level. Assignment: Materials Analysis, Sandia Labs (Nevada). Notation: “Non-nuclear, special samples. Forward results direct to DC. Prohibit discussion with peers.”

[Testimony – Dr. Robert Hammond, Retired]

“I asked Dmitri once what he worked on. He said: ‘The same thing I’ve always worked on. The same thing I’ll never stop working on.’ His eyes were hollow. Like he was already somewhere else.”

Neighbor Account (Las Vegas, 1982–85): Volkov lived modestly. Described as “sad, like carrying something heavy.”

[FILE 83-03-14] Cascade Timber Incident

[Cascade Timber Co. Incident Report – 14 MAR 1983]

Witnesses: 57. Descriptions: “aircraft aflame,” “air being torn.” Location: ~40 miles NE of Mt. Rainier. Containment: Site secured within 2 hrs by unidentified personnel in fatigues. No insignia.

Official Statement (DOE/AF, 16 MAR 1983): “Prototype drone malfunction during training exercise.”

Analyst’s Note: McChord AFB records – no drone flights logged. SeaTac radar – object > Mach 7, executing angular maneuvers impossible for 1980s UAVs. Volkov documented in Washington State during same 48-hr period – only known absence from Nevada (1980–87).

[Witness Interview – Frank Chen, 1995]

“I saw what I saw. Then I saw men with badges and checkbooks. They didn’t threaten me—they bought me. And that’s worse. Once you’re paid, you start doubting yourself. Start thinking maybe you dreamed it. That’s the trick. They don’t silence you. They make you forget.”

[File Gap – subsequent witness recantations unavailable]

[BRIEFING MEMO] Architecture of Disbelief

[Extract – Dr. Sarah Chen, “Information Containment in the Modern Era,” 1997]

Official Denial: Deny, but clumsily – so skeptics look less credible than believers. Cultural Saturation: Flood fiction with diluted truth. Reality dismissed as derivative. Controlled Opposition: Seed genuine leaks among absurd claims. Pollute the field until no one credible will touch it.

Analyst’s Note: Compare w/ entertainment surge: alien films 1950s–90s. Consider inoculation effect. Volkov’s case fits framework precisely.

[FILE 94-03-08] Death & Encrypted Disks

Volkov deceased – 8 MAR 1994, apparent cardiac arrest. Age: 58. No prior heart condition. Autopsy conducted at military, not civilian, facility. Reason: [REDACTED].

[Apartment Search Log – Las Vegas, 1994]

Recovered: 3 floppy disks. Hidden in VHS case, beneath drawer, storage unit. All encrypted.

Decryption achieved 1997 by anonymous computer science student. Content: >300-page memoir detailing Soviet years, defection, U.S. assignments, and analysis of “materials of non-terrestrial origin.”

[Memoir Extract – Nevada Facility Work]

“Panel: 2.3m across, curvature suggests structure ~15–20m diameter. Titanium-aluminum alloy – grain structure impossible. No welds, no rivets. Optical surface both absorbs and reflects. Electron microscopy: molecular patterns too regular for natural, too complex for human.”

“After four years I conclude with 94% certainty: fabrication predates 1947, by means unknown to mankind.”

Analyst’s Note: Technical detail aligns with Volkov’s expertise. Certain dates cross-verified. Physical samples absent.

[ASSESSMENT] The Unanswered Questions

Arguments for authenticity:

• Technical expertise evident in memoir.
• Verifiable Soviet research references.
• Consistency with other alleged insider accounts.
• Physical disks date-confirmed to early 1990s.
• Volkov held verified Q-clearance.

Arguments for fabrication:

• Convenient posthumous discovery.
• No surviving physical artifacts.
• Psych profile: obsessive tendencies.
• No corroboration from supposed colleagues.
• Memoir aligns neatly with popular UFO narratives.

Stranger anomalies remain unresolved:

• CIA response to 1996 FOIA: “Any records responsive, if they exist, remain properly classified.”
• Multiple names in memoir later deceased – accidents, illness, cardiac arrest.
• Witness Frank Chen (Cascade Timber) died 1995: “I still can’t tell you what it was. Either I don’t know, or I’m afraid. Maybe both.”

[SUMMARY] Disclosure Debate

[Volkov Memoir – Final Pages]

“Truth without disclosure is just another prison. Yet projections show revelation = collapse: faith, economy, politics, order. Perhaps mankind is not ready. Or perhaps this is cowardice. Both may be true.”

Analyst’s Note: Dossier leaves epistemic trap intact. If suppressed, suppression is proof. If fabricated, denial appears identical. Outcome: indistinguishable.

Editor’s Note (Estate Release, 1995): Article submitted to five publications. All declined. Author deceased. Files circulated independently. Make of them what you will.