SiTU MEMO: MAJESTIC 12
Membership
All the alleged original members of MJ-12 were notable for their military, government, and/or scientific achievements, and all were deceased when the documents first surfaced (the last to die was Jerome Hunsaker, only a few months before the MJ-12 papers first appeared).
The original composition was six civilians (mostly scientists), and six high-ranking military officers, two from each major military service. Three (Souers, Vandenberg, and Hillenkoetter) had been the first three heads of central intelligence. The Moore/Shandera documents did not make clear who was the director of MJ-12, or if there was any organizational hierarchy.
The named members of MJ-12 were:
- Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter: first CIA director
Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, Navy, (Ret.)
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Born
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(1897-05-08)May 8, 1897St. Louis, Missouri
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Died
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June 18, 1982(1982-06-18) (aged 85)
New York City[1] |
Buried at
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Section 3Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington County, Virginia, United States |
- Dr. Vannevar Bush: chaired wartime Office of Scientific Researchand Development and predecessor National Defense Research Committee; set up and chaired postwar Joint Research and Development Board (JRDB) and then the Research and Development Board (RDB); chaired NACA; President of Carnegie Institute, Washington D.C.
Vannevar Bush
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Vannevar Bush, ca. 1940–44
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Born
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(1890-03-11)March 11, 1890Everett, Massachusetts
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Died
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June 28, 1974(1974-06-28) (aged 84)Belmont, Massachusetts
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Fields
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Institutions
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- James Forrestal: Secretary of the Navy; first Secretary of Defense (replaced after his death on MJ-12 by Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, 2nd CIA director)
- Gen. Nathan Twining: headed Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB; Air Force Chief of Staff (1953–1957); Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957–1961)
General Nathan F. Twining, USAF, (Ret.)
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Born
| (1897-10-11)October 11, 1897Monroe, Wisconsin |
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Died
| March 29, 1982(1982-03-29) (aged 84)Lackland Air Force Base, Texas |
Place of burial
| Arlington National Cemetery |
- Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg: Directed Central Intelligence Group (1946–1947); Air Force Chief of Staff (1948–1953)
Hoyt Vandenberg
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Hoyt Vandenberg
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In office
June 10, 1946 – May 1, 1947 | |
President
| Harry S. Truman |
Preceded by
| Sidney Souers |
Succeeded by
| Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter |
Personal details
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Born
| Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (1899-01-24)January 24, 1899Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Died
| April 2, 1954(1954-04-02) (aged 55)Walter Reed Medical Center, Washington D.C. |
- Gen. Robert M. Montague: Guided missile expert; 1947 commander of Fort Bliss; headed nuclear Armed Forces Special Weapons Center, Sandia Base
Montague as commander of the Sandia Missile Base
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Born
| August 7, 1899 (1899-08-07)Portland, Oregon |
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Died
| February 20, 1958 (1958-02-21) (aged 58)Balboa, Panama |
Buried at
| Arlington National Cemetery |
Dr. Jerome Hunsaker: Aeronautical engineer, MIT; chaired NACA after Bush
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (August 26, 1886 – September 10, 1984) was an American airman born in Creston, Iowa, and educated at the Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Rear Adm. Sidney Souers: first director of Central Intelligence Group, first executive secretary of National Security Council
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Died
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Gordon Gray: Secretary of the Army; intelligence and national security expert; CIA psychological strategy board (1951–1953); Chairman of NSC 5412 Committee (1954–1958); National Security Advisor (1958–1961)
Gordon Gray
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President
| Harry S. Truman |
Preceded by
| Kenneth_Claiborne_Royall |
Succeeded by
| Frank Pace |
Preceded by
| Frank Porter Graham |
Succeeded by
| William Clyde Friday |
President
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Preceded by
| Robert Cutler |
Succeeded by
| McGeorge Bundy |
Personal details
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Born
| (1909-05-30)May 30, 1909Baltimore, Maryland |
Died
| November 26, 1982(1982-11-26) (aged 73)Washington, D.C. |
- Dr. Donald Menzel: Astronomer, Harvard; cryptologist during war; security consultant to CIA and NSA
Donald Howard Menzel
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Donald Howard Menzel by Babette Whipple
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Born
| April 11, 1901Florence, Colorado |
Died
| December 14, 1976Boston, Massachusetts |
Nationality
| United states |
Fields
| Astronomy, Astrophysics, Star Formation |
- Dr. Detlev Bronk: Medical physicist; aviation physiologist; chair, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council; president Johns Hopkins & Rockefeller University
Detlev Wulf Bronk
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Bronk in 1963
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Born
| (1897-08-13)August 13, 1897[1] New York City[1] |
Died
| November 17, 1975(1975-11-17) (aged 78)[1] New York City[1] |
Fields
| Scientist |
- Dr. Lloyd Berkner: Physicist; radio expert; executive secretary of Bush's JRDB
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