All the president's (little green) men

[William Seger]

All the president's (little green) men: How Ronald Reagan asked Soviet rival Mikhail Gorbachev for help fighting alien invasion

• Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for help with aliens at summit


• The former US President and actor was said to be a science fiction fan


• He arranged private screenings of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and asked Gorbachev for help dealing with any future alien invasion


• Reagan's advisers edited out mentions of aliens in subsequent speeches

Former American President Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for help from Russia to 'fight the alien invader'.

The president and former actor went off-script during a peace summit in Geneva in the 1980s to ask the Soviet leader for his support in the event of an invasion from extra terrestrial life.

Reagan repeated the warning when he spoke to a group of students, and his subsequent speeches were examined by his advisers to remove any mention of aliens in them.

He confessed his favourite story was 'the invasion from outer space that prompts earthlings to put aside nationalistic quarrels and band together to fight the alien invader'.

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