Elizondo frames Roswell as the origin of a seven-point secrecy playbook: deny everything; make counteraccusations; retrieve crash material; move it to undisclosed facilities; reverse-engineer under restricted access; intimidate and discredit witnesses; threaten espionage prosecution

Record

Date

1947 onward (claimed)

Claim or item

Elizondo frames Roswell as the origin of a seven-point secrecy playbook: deny everything; make counteraccusations; retrieve crash material; move it to undisclosed facilities; reverse-engineer under restricted access; intimidate and discredit witnesses; threaten espionage prosecution

Evidence category

Interpretive allegation (memoir)

Firsthand?

No

Publicly accessible?

Yes (book)

Independent corroboration

No dated examples or documentary corroboration located

Assessment

Interpretive claim; not established as policy

Notes

Attributed claim by Luis Elizondo in Imminent (2024); chapter/page not yet supplied (Jason worked from a user-supplied paraphrase). Avoid assuming causation from Roswell to later secrecy. Chunk M search (2026-11-12): Elizondo's sworn November 2024 House testimony does not mention it, and no file hosted on this site does either. No public statement by Puthoff confirming or denying the conversation was found. The Air Force's 1994 Roswell report on this site concerns the Mogul balloon project, not two crash sites, a test-range EMP, a secrecy playbook or the Rosenberg executions. Nothing independent of Imminent. Flag stays.

Linked case IDs

CASE-003