Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Helene Cooper
Liberian-born New York Times Pentagon correspondent (b. 1966), lead byline on the December 2017 AATIP story.
2017 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official
The account
Cooper, formerly the Times' White House correspondent, brought a mainstream national-security reporter's credibility to the story, which ran under her byline with Blumenthal and Kean. Her involvement is one reason the article was taken seriously across the press.
The sceptical view
The story reported the existence of a programme and its videos; it did not establish what the objects were.
Connections in the atlas
- Ralph Blumenthal
- "Glowing Auras and Black Money" (New York Times)
- Leslie Kean
- The New York Times reveals AATIP
- USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac'