"Taking into consideration that almost two thousand years of recorded scientific advancement on earth has sent probes into deep space, it is my opinion that any aliens in the universe are sub-intelligent; otherwise they would have reached us by now."
-- CHETO Director Dr. Peter T. Mountjoy, Last Will and Testament, Maryland, August 1973

Extraterrestrial Intelligence
While the goverment takes a tongue-in-cheek public stance, the fear of an alien invasion has nevertheless inspired many official scenarios and preparations, especially in the post-WWII era, inspired by nuclear fallout and the cold war. In 1951, the illegitimate son of a robber baron (Emil McQuinty Mountjoy) used a large personal endowment to form an organization called Convergent Human/Extra-Terrestrial Operations (CHETO), which was eventually made a government agency under NASA, though allowed to work directly with Congress and the President on issues of approval and appropriations. Mountjoy did exhaustive analyses of the heavens, read extensive UFO claims and eventually provided the government with an alien invasion theory that led them to take secretive and some would say paranoid actions. Mountjoy died in 1963, leaving his endowment and therefore the organization to his son Peter, who did little of note with his position except for an animal infantry experiment with baboons during which he was killed when a bee-bee punctured his esophagus. His children, the twins Travis and Mabel Mountjoy (above images from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technique, Issue 1969), received word while attending the Phd. Program at MIT, and took over CHETO at the ages of 17. Their father's attorney left them with a sealed folder, which they eventually publicized, listing his personal opinion that there were, in fact, no creatures in the universe of higher intelligence; stating, "if there were, they would be here by now." Travis and Mabel Mountjoy took over the CHETO program with the understanding that a reversal in philosophy would take place. No longer would we prepare for our citizens to be dominated by super-intelligent beings. We would instead prepare our astonauts to dominate abroad.

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