Albert Stubblebine

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Albert Stubblebine
Invasion of Grenada
AwardsDistinguished Service Medal
Legion of Merit (2)
Bronze Star
Air Medal (2)

Albert "Bert" Newton Stubblebine III (February 6, 1930 – February 6, 2017) was a

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
(INSCOM) from 1981 to 1984, after which he retired from active service.

Over the course of his retirement, it became widely known that Stubblebine maintained a keen interest in psychic warfare throughout his service. He sought to develop an army of soldiers with special powers, such as the ability to walk through walls.[1][2]

Biography

Stubblebine graduated from the

armor officer, he later transferred to military intelligence
.

In 1968, Stubblebine was transferred to the staff of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam and later was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division as its G-2 (intelligence officer). For his service in the Vietnam War, Stubblebine was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal.

As a

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which he commanded from 1981 to 1984, to create "a breed of 'super soldier'" who would "have the ability to become invisible at will and to walk through walls". He attempted to walk through walls himself[1][4]—but failed, as he himself described in a 2004 interview.[5] (These activities feature prominently in Jon Ronson's 2004 book The Men Who Stare at Goats.[6][2]
)

A key sponsor of the

John Adams Wickham, Jr. by offering to perform a spoon-bending feat at a formal gala; Wickham, a devout Presbyterian, associated such phenomena with Satanism.[8]

Stubblebine's successor as the INSCOM commander was Major General

Harry Soyster, who had a reputation as a much more conservative and conventional intelligence officer. Soyster was not amenable to continuing paranormal experiments and the Army's participation in the Stargate Project ended during his tenure, though not until 1995.[9]

After Stubblebine retired from the Army he worked as a vice-president for BDM Corporation. He retired from that job in 1990. The same year, he was inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.[10] In 1994 his wife Geraldine was granted a divorce on grounds of adultery.[11] Shortly thereafter, he was remarried to psychiatrist Rima E. Laibow.[12] He also acted as a part-time consultant to two government contractors, ERIM and Space Applications Corporation.[11]

Conspiracy theories

Stubblebine, whose interests included

genetically modified foods.[12]

September 11 attacks

Stubblebine believed that an airplane did not crash into the Pentagon in the

September 11 terrorist attacks, but said he did not know what did.[12] According to Stubblebine, after analyzing the damage done to The Pentagon by the hijacked aircraft during the September 11 attacks, he concluded "(an) airplane did not make that hole". Stubblebine's statements have been cited by David Ray Griffin.[13][14]

H1N1 flu

In 2009, Stubblebine said he believed the H1N1 swine flu was "a genetically engineered virus that is part of a World Health Organization-United Nations-United States scheme to sterilize untold numbers of people".[12]

In popular culture

  • A character ("General Hopgood") in the 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats — a fictionalized adaptation of Ronson's book — is loosely based on Stubblebine as commander of the "psychic spy unit" (portrayed in the film) who believed he could train himself to walk through walls.

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4299-7261-1
    .
  2. ^ a b "Acting the giddy goat". The Guardian. December 21, 2004. Retrieved November 10, 2009.
  3. ISBN 978-0-7432-7060-1
    p. 70
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-313-39261-0
    .
  5. ^ Jon Ronson's Crazy Rulers of the World, Part I (2004), a BBC documentary.
  6. ^ Ronson (2004), Op. cit., pg 93.
  7. ^ Ronson (2004), Op. cit., pg 5.
  8. ^ Ronson (2004), Op. cit, pg 79.
  9. ^ Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001 by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2002, 2006.
  10. ^ "CSTI – Board Of Directors". Archived from the original on 2005-02-06. Retrieved 2009-11-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ^ a b Court Of Appeals Of Virginia. Albert N. Stubblebine, III v. Geraldine M. Stubblebine. Record No. 1915-94-4. Case heard on July 23, 1996. Accessed November 12, 2009.
  12. ^ a b c d Keller, Larry. "Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, Says 'Gen. Bert'". splcenter.org. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  13. ISBN 9781538164648
    . Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  14. ISBN 978-1-56656-686-5
    . Retrieved 27 March 2013.

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