Overview
A new Medium article links David Grusch’s public remarks about child trafficking on The Joe Rogan Experience to a broader theory involving post–World War II intelligence, political and financial networks, and alleged UFO secrecy. The article, published July 21, 2026, is the first installment of a two-part series titled “The connections between Nazi Otto Skorzenzy, Allen Dulles, Bill Donovan, Robert Maxwell, World Commerce Corporation, and UFOs.” However, the material provided does not independently substantiate the connections or confirm the claims discussed by the author.
Grusch, a former U.S. intelligence officer who became a prominent figure in congressional investigations into alleged secret UFO-retrieval programs, has previously made controversial statements concerning trafficking and hidden power structures. The Medium post attempts to place those remarks within a much larger historical narrative, drawing connections among former Office of Strategic Services chief William “Wild Bill” Donovan, future CIA Director Allen Dulles, counterintelligence officer James Angleton, German commando Otto Skorzeny, publisher Robert Maxwell, and business entities associated with the Bahamas and Resorts International.
The World Commerce Corporation
At the center of the article is the World Commerce Corporation (WCC), which the author says was established on Aug. 13, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. The post describes the corporation as a possible bridge between former intelligence officials, international commerce, and later networks alleged to have intersected with covert operations.
The author also highlights the timing of the WCC’s founding alongside what is described as the first use of the term “MAJESTIC” and President Harry Truman’s order concerning the development of nuclear propulsion. These temporal overlaps are presented as potentially significant, although the excerpt does not provide archival evidence demonstrating that the events were coordinated or directly related.
The article says the WCC’s history was discussed by researcher Jason Samosa during an interview with Jesse Michels. According to the post, their discussion traced alleged links from the corporation to work associated with physicist Thomas Townsend Brown in the Bahamas, Resorts International, InterTel, and Maxwell. The author says these claims were compared with more than 8,000 documents using a research tool called “Moongraph.”
Intelligence, finance and UFO claims
The post situates its argument within earlier research concerning Dulles and Angleton, including an alleged 1933 UFO incident in Magenta, Italy, and a purported retrieval following the liberation of Rome in 1944. It also references claims made by researcher Whitney Webb that Resorts International served as a vehicle for transnational criminal activity connected to the Dulles brothers. Those assertions remain contested and are not established findings of official investigations cited in the excerpt.
The article ultimately suggests that figures and institutions involved in postwar intelligence and international finance may also have played a role in maintaining UFO secrecy. It references an alleged statement attributed to former Lockheed executive Ben Rich, but the supplied text does not quote Rich directly or identify an independently verified source for the claim.
Evidence and limitations
The Medium series is best understood as an interpretive investigation rather than a verified account. The excerpt offers a network of names, dates, companies, interviews and previously published theories, but it does not present independent confirmation that these individuals or organizations coordinated UFO-related activity, trafficking operations or a continuing secret program.
The connections described should therefore be distinguished from documented history. While the careers of Dulles, Donovan, Maxwell and others are matters of public record, the alleged links between them and UFO concealment remain claims requiring corroboration through authenticated documents, testimony and independent reporting. No commenter analysis or separate evidence supplied with the source confirms the article’s conclusions.
