NIDS, the so-called "National Institute For Discovery Science", is
made to sound like some public-purpose academic organization. In actuality,
it is the private holding of shadowy billionaire Robert Bigelow, a Las
Vegas casinos operator, closely allied with rogue military-intelligence
psy/psi-warfare officers suspected of being part of the renegade UFO
Cover-Up organization a former NSC consultant dubbed "The Cabal".
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