Firstly, we have circumstantial evidence of Harold Maumgren brought into the Nixon administration in 1971.
Analyst Matthew Pines has suggested that Maumgren was, at times, just as influential as Kissinger.
Maumgren was used explicitly by Nixon to check Kissinger in many negotiations to, like, confirm that Kissinger wasn't going rogue on various things.
And the whole China thing, the back channels with the Soviets, Maumgren was Nixon's, like, you know, confirmation, you know, route.
Maumgren was there to kind of, like, act as a bit of a, a check.
It would certainly make sense, then, that if Maumgren had been read into otherworldly technology by Richard Bissell around this time,