C. B. "Scott" Jones papers

Cecil B. “Scott” Jones (b. 1924) worked for the government and on the board multiple non-profits during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s in fields related to Extraterrestrial contact, Parapsychology, alternative medicine, survival research and international peace. He received an A.B. in Government from George Washington University in 1961, a Masters degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 1963, and finally a Ph.D. in International Studies from American University in 1975. Jones started his professional career as a fighter pilot in the navy during the Korean war, afterward he served in Naval intelligence for 20 years. While in the Navy he taught at various army colleges from 1970-1972, at the University of Kansas with the navy in 1973-1975, and finally he was a professor at the University of Wyoming from 1975-1978. Once he left the University of Wyoming, Jones worked with the private firm CACI Managing intelligence contact with DIA for 2 years, during which spent 10% of his time on applied anomalous phenomena. Then he worked for the research and development firm Kaman Tempo investigating and reporting on all oceanic nuclear tests for defense nuclear agency. During this time he met Senator Clairborne Pell and organized two symposiums on Applied Anomalous Phenomena and Consciousness and Survival respectively.

After this, Dr. Jones served as Special Assistant to Senator Clariborne Pell from January 1985 until March 1991 with the purpose of investigating consciousness research being conducted in other countries, primarily the USSR and China. During this time he founded Center for Anomalous Phenomena (CAAP) in 1985. In 1989, he founded the Human Potential Foundation (HPF) with Senator Pell, CAAP was absorbed into the HPF at this time. While working with the HPF he managed three centers, the center for interspecies communication, the center for Intercultural medical exchange, and the center for the Thanatology and survival research.The center for interspecies communication organized research in two main areas, the first being the potential for psychic communication with dolphins, manifested in project Neptunes Helper. The second being human interaction with potential extraterrestrials, resulting In the 1995 “When Cosmic Cultures Meet”conference preparing for when extraterrestrial civilization encounters humanity. The HPF also operated a small press for limited runs of books which covered topics related to the various programs of the HPF. The primary donor for the HPF during the first two and a half years of the organizations lifespan was Laurence Rockefeller, whose support was conditional with a program designed to get the United States government to acknowledge the existence of alien life. The HPF dissolved in 1998.

In 1998, following the dissolution of the HPF, Dr. Jones founded Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth (PEACE). The main directive of PEACE was to establish student run peace centers at universities throughout the world. The goal of the peace rooms being to provide a space for the future leaders of the world to have a space to develop conflict resolution skills as part of an international movement despite his best efforts, these peace rooms never came into being.