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http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Update5-29-17.htm

Steve Bassett has been to Russia....


Stephen Bassett, executive director of PRG International, spent the week of May 3 to May 10 in Moscow taking meetings and giving an interview regarding the extraterrestrial presence issue, the politics of Disclosure and the truth embargo.

During the interview, which will be broadcast in Russian in August, Bassett discussed various considerations that might prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the first formal acknowledgment by a head of state regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. PRG believes this may be the first time anyone has made this argument on Russian media inside or outside Russia.

In addition to the interview Bassett took meetings with a number of groups addressing the extraterrestrial phenomena issues in Russia. These groups included a number of former Soviet and Russian military and agency officials. There has always been a considerable, open engagement of extraterrestrial related phenomena within Russia and the Soviet Union by the public and the government.

Asked why he made the Moscow trip, Basset stated, "Since 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia have spent in excess of $40 trillion (in 2016 dollars) contesting over political and economic ideologies, fighting proxy wars around the world and building the most dangerous threat to the human race ever conceived. Drawing upon the current proposed U.S. budget, the combined expenditures over the next ten years will be around $7.5 trillion dollars."...
If disclosure benefits Russia and Putin or weakens the US than he may disclose. But are the benefits from disclosing greater than the those of the status quo of keeping it all secret? But if Putin does disclose I don't think it be for altruistic reasons.