His influence continued for decades, spanning the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
It's a collection of over 3,000 pages from different eras leaked over decades. Yes, some of these could be forgery. Some of these could be purposeful misinformation, part of a limited hangout strategy.
A fact that would have been impossible for a forger to predict decades earlier upon release of the MJ-12 documents.
And that brings us back to Kissinger. If such a program existed, and if it evolved over the decades from how it was supposedly set up in the 1940s, how would somebody like Kissinger fit in?
Others suggest that MJ-12 and PI-40 were interchangeable names for the same group, which evolved over decades but remained embedded in the US national security structure.
And despite the decades of tension and mistrust that came after, Kissinger remains a popular figure in both Beijing and Moscow.
His access to power remained unbroken for decades, and he was continually sought out for foreign policy council on China, post 9-11, Iraq, and even AI.