claims with archival evidence and declassified government documents.
While Malmgren had legitimate roles under Presidents Nixon and Ford, primarily
related to trade negotiations, Johnson’s research reveals that many of his
grander claims — including key advisory roles to Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson — are unsubstantiated.
A particularly sensational aspect of Malmgren’s legacy is his claimed
association with the UFOs/UAP, aliens and or UFO crash debris. In his later
years, Malmgren claimed high-level insider knowledge of classified UFO
programs and extraterrestrial-related national security concerns, painting him
as someone deeply embedded in secret government deliberations about non-human
intelligence and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
However, Johnson finds no credible evidence to support these assertions.
Malmgren’s official records, including declassified FBI files and government
employment documents, show no involvement in national security or intelligence
matters outside of his economic advisory capacity. Notably, Malmgren’s own job
applications from the 1960s make no mention of such roles, describing instead
modest academic and advisory functions. Furthermore, thorough searches of
presidential archives and correspondence — including efforts by historians
affiliated with the JFK Library and the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute —
yielded no mention of Malmgren in the contexts he later claimed.
Johnson concludes that Malmgren, while not entirely a fabricator, skillfully
blurred the lines between fact and fiction, leveraging real but limited public
service into a legacy laced with dramatic and unverifiable embellishments. His
late-in-life elevation to quasi-mystical insider status in UFO and conspiracy
circles illustrates how unchecked personal narratives can metastasize into
accepted lore — a cautionary tale in the age of viral misinformation and
selective memory.
Source: www.theufochronicles.com