[0:50:48 - 0:50:54] Firstly, we have circumstantial evidence of Harold
Maumgren brought into the Nixon administration in 1971.
[0:50:54 - 0:51:00] Analyst Matthew Pines has suggested that
Maumgren was, at times, just as influential as Kissinger.
[0:51:31 - 0:51:39] Maumgren was used explicitly by Nixon to check Kissinger in many negotiations to, like, confirm that Kissinger wasn't going rogue on various things.
[0:51:39 - 0:51:46] And the whole China thing, the back channels with the Soviets,
Maumgren was Nixon's, like, you know, confirmation, you know, route.
[0:51:56 - 0:52:03] It would certainly make sense, then, that if
Maumgren had been read into otherworldly technology by Richard Bissell around this time,