Michael E. Salla - 16 Oct

Just before beginning his first term on January 20, 1993, President-Elect Clinton made a very strange request to close family friend and lawyer Webster Hubbell: If I put you over there in Justice I want you to find the answer to two questions for me: One, who killed JFK. And two, are there UFOs. Finding answers to these two questions appeared to be very important for Clinton and his future presidency. Why else would he assign a trusted friend to a senior position in the Department of Justice to find answers to questions most often asked by fringe conspiracy theorists?

We do know that Clinton did go on to assign Webster Hubbell to the Department of Justice on the first day of the new Presidential administration. We know that Clinton wanted to appoint Hubble to the top job as Attorney General, but finally had to settle for Associate Attorney General. Nevertheless, as the third highest ranking official in the Department of Justice, Hubble enjoyed impressive executive powers and security clearances to find answers to Clintons questions. Hubbell would eventually write about Clintons strange request and what he was able to find out in his memoirs, Friends in High Places .

We dont know why Clinton asked Hubble to find the answers to these two questions. Was it just curiosity over two unrelated issues: the death of a childhood hero, and Clintons private interest in UFOs? Or did Clinton believe there was some link between Kennedys death and the UFO issue? Was Clinton using Hubble to test the bureaucratic waters to find if there was indeed such a link, in order to fathom how far he, himself, could go in learning about the UFO issue?

There have long been rumors of a link between the Kennedy assassination and the UFO issue. Veteran UFO researcher and Emmy Award winner, Linda Moulton Howe, for example, was confidentially told of such a link by intelligence sources:

I had been told by two different government intelligence agents in two different parts of the United States that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated on November 22, 1963 on orders of the CIA because after a long and tense period of grievances that included the controversial pull back of American air cover at the Bay of Pigs, JFK - based on some firsthand knowledge from his service as a U. S. Naval intelligence officer - had demanded access to all files and images concerning an extraterrestrial presence on earth.

How plausible is the idea that Kennedy was assassinated because of his efforts to learn about UFOs and extraterrestrial life? Also, did Kennedy learn about extraterrestrial life during the World War II era as a result of his service with U.S. Naval Intelligence?

What we do know for certain is that Webster Hubbell said that he was stymied in his efforts to find satisfactory answers to Clintons two questions. Hubbell wrote: I had looked at both [questions], but wasnt happy at the answers I was getting.

Ultimately, Hubble had to resign on March 14, 1994, over a financial scandal involving his overbilling clients while serving as an attorney in Arkansas. The removal of Hubbell may well have been the first case of a manufactured scandal to undermine Clintons efforts to learn about the Kennedy and UFO issues.

We do know from FOIA documents that Bill and Hillary Clinton were actively seeking answers to questions over the UFO issue. FOIA documents reveal that both traveled in August 1995 to the Teton, Wyoming Ranch of Laurence Rockefeller and received an informal briefing about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. An August 4, 1995, memo by President Clintons Science Advisor, Dr Jack Gibbons, confirmed that the Clintons would be vacationing with Rockefeller at his Teton Ranch in Wyoming that summer, and they would discuss UFOs: