This comes from the Daily Mail, so take it with a grain of salt. That said, some interesting bits and pieces.
- The Office of Global Access (OGA) – a wing of the CIA – has played a central role in crash retrieval since 2003.
- OAG is a wing of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Science and Technology Directorate.
- A source with knowledge of the OGA’s role said that they specialize in allowing the US military to secretly access areas around the world where they would usually be ‘denied’ – for example behind enemy lines.
- Multiple sources briefed on the OGA’s activities contend that most of its operations involve more conventional retrieval missions, such as stray nuclear weapons, downed satellites or adversaries’ technology.
- Documents published by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in December 2016 showed that the OGA was one of 56 offices in the CIA, with its chief and deputy making up two of a total 286 director-level officials in the spy agency.
- Doug Wolfe helped set up the CIA’s Office of Global Access in 2003 and served as its deputy director.
- Wolfe’s bio cryptically adds that he ‘was responsible for leading and managing strategic, unwarned access programs that deliver intelligence from the most challenging denied areas’ and ‘served as program manager with responsibility for the end-to-end system acquisition of an innovative new source and method for the IC [Intelligence Community].’
- OGA coordinates with Special Operations Forces such as SEAL teams or Delta Force under the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), or nuclear weapons experts such as the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST), to collect the crashed or landed craft. But another source, who has briefed members of Congress on alleged crash retrievals, said that NEST had not been involved in any of these operations. A spokesperson for the agency also denied involvement. ‘[NEST] personnel encounter materials from unknown origins on a regular basis,’ a spokesperson said. ‘In fact, one of NEST’s missions is to help determine the origin of nuclear material interdicted outside of regulatory control or used in a nuclear device.
- A former SEAL team member noted that they had been on operations coordinated by the CIA to retrieve high-value stray enemy weapons, and that they knew of colleagues who had been on similar operations where they recovered technology that appeared highly advanced – though not necessarily out-of-this-world.
- One source said that the Air Force Special Operations Command’s 24th Special Tactics Squadron, based at Pope Field Army Airbase in North Carolina, has also been involved in securing areas for UFO crash retrievals.
- Sources said the CIA office then often hands the wreckage or material over to private aerospace contractors for analysis, where it is not subject to rigorous government audits and can be shielded with protections for trade secrets.
- ‘The CIA is the portfolio manager or owner of the UAP [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena] crash retrieval operation,’ one source, who has shared their information with Congress
- ‘The Department of Energy national labs are materials analysis contractors whenever recovered radioisotopes are involved but not always just radioisotope materials. The aerospace-defense industry are also contractors that specifically do not handle any recovered radioisotopes, but they handle the other non-radioactive material – and intact craft.’