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CAUSEAddress: P.D.Box 218Publisher: Coventry, Conn. 06Subscription:

Lawrence FawcettEdi to r :

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NUMBER 2J NEW SERIES Septembel" 1989

(Copyright 1989)A MAJESTIC DECEPTION

A. Wr!Ung In "N"",.ptQk: A Dlctlonary ofJargon," Jonathon Greena_ ha t Nazi lead .. Adnlf Hltior coined the ph",.. In hI!! book"Meln Kampf," Hitler advanced the premise that uie greater and rna";alXlaelous th e lie. tile more chance there I!I of th. maueo believing It....."""!"dlng to Gn'en, Ih. big Be 10 "" popular phllosophy of l o t a t o ~ ..ndd e m 8 ~ and Indeed. On a more aubtlo Iovel, of Mlppooedly 'demo-.rau" ~ v , , " , m e n t s . who ~ to gild the process by oxplalnlng that',..hal you don'l know WCIfI'j hurt you' when II 00..... to "",,_UngaffalTS of state Crnm lho.: ,..110 elect them."

July 1, 1989, may wel l be remembered In the history o f UFOresearch as the day when the "Majestic 12" story came crashing toEarth in a heap of rubble. Cause of death: Suicide!I n a long speech a t the MUFON annual symposium In la s Vegas,Wil l iam Moore, one of the chief promoters of the MJ_12 t a le , gavethe la tes t version of t he "fact s ;" a part_sympathy plea, part _confession, par t -assaul t on cr i t i cs .CAUS has e ~ p l o r e d this information in great detaI l over thepast several years. Briefly, for new readers, MJ-12 i s purportedto be a panel Of dist ingu ished sc ient i s t s and pol i t ica l and mili taryleaders assembled In the late-1940s to study reports of crashedflying saucers, in part icular the famous "Roswe-l l Incident" of 1947.The alleged panel i s said by some to be functionlng even today. Avariety of official- looking documents have been released to the UFOcommunity by William Moore, J aime Shandera and Stanton Friedman asevidence of the rea l i ty Of MJ_12. CAUS has been strongly c r i t i ca lof the story for a large number of reasons already on the record.The MSF have angri ly defended the story, despite a recent publ ic posture of being objective and undec ided about the t ru th , or lackof t ruth , in the reported information.Moore's speech at Las Vegas was an attemp t to e ~ p l a i n h i s in volvement in MJ_12 since the early 1980s and to answer scores ofseriOUS questions about his ac t iv i t i e s . Answers were given but thequestions were not se t t led .Some of the more remarkable claims:

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1) That Moore was recruited by government inte l l igencepeople to aid in an ef for t to c hang e off ic ia l UFOpolIcy. One of his "dutIes" ..as to observe and reporton a diSin f ormation campaign against Paul Bennewitz,a key figure in the sightings a t Kirt land AFB, N.M.,in August 1980 (see CLEAR INTENT, Epilog).Comment: Moore stated emphatically in a December 10, 1988

"Open Letter" that , "Rumors circulat ing to the effect that I amsame sor t of government agent or 'disinformation' expert aretotally false."Assuming that this scenario Moore paints 1s tru e , whetherhe l ikes i t or not this makes Moore an agent of t he U.S. govern -ment. Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary defines an agent as "One whoor that which acts for another." I f Moor e received instruct ionsfrom what he believed to be a government source, and reported onthe effects of offiCial dlslnformatlon on ~ e n n e w l t z . he is actingas an agent of the government, whether paid Or unpaid.2) That Moor e wes to supply information to the governmentthrough Richard Doty, an Air Force OSI agent, on the

act iv i t ies of Bennewitz, APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research OrganIzation of Tucson , Arizona, of which Moorewas an active member),and "several other individuals."Boasting that be ing a small part of this operationgave him an advantage, Moore intended to "play theadvantage for a ll the information I could get out ofI t . "

Comme nt: The outrageousness of this cannot be described.Moore, one of the major cr i t ics of government secrecy on UFOs ,had covertly informed on people who thought he was their friendand colleague. Knowing ful l well that the government people withwhom he was dealing were active disinformants, Moore pursued arelationship with them and observed the deterioration of PaulBennewitz' physical and mental health. Rather t han help the manwith whom Moore struck a friendship from ear ly 1981 to mid-1985,he stood by and did nothing. Moore reported the effects of thefalse information regularly to "some of the very same people whowere ' doing 1 t ' to Paul. " And Moore boasted in his speech as tohow effective i t was. He said he watched Paul become s y s t e ~ a t i cally more paranoid and emotionally unstable as he t rIed to under_stand what was happening to him.SUCh scurri lous behavior can In no way be excused . Mooreclaimed that this was the only way to get to the core of theoperation, to "play the disinformation game." All the while,he played games with UFO researchers, feeding false leadS andinformation , doing nothing to correct the si tuat ion, and wastinga lo t of people's t1me and money laying a t r a i l of sugar cubesfor UFOlogists, hungry for information, to lap up.What is most curious is what made Moore think that as oneof the main c r i t ics of government UFO policy, he thought he couldget very high up into an i ntell igence operation against UrOlog i sts?Moore is a professional writer. Intell igence operatives knew thisand were certainly aware that Moore could be a great danger Inexposing such an operation . Didn't Moore believe that he couldhave been a dlsinformation terget as well? Apparently not,as Msrhave quite readily distr ibuted known-disinformant's information

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through the UFO f ield end heve found no ~ r o b l e m wI t h thell." E V E R Y H I ~ G THAT OECEIVES MAY BE SAID TO ENCHAN T" (Pl ato)

15) sa i d , (Debunkers), are not onlyMoore in 19B7 (focus, Sep t emb er"charges of 'Hoax , ' ' fo rgery, ' and 'prella t ure but, in ~ y opi ni on , const lelloti ona l approach wh i ch s e e ~ sYet i n his La s Vegas speechhe brought Shander a andwas in co ntact with

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assoc -same sources as thewill ta i nt the whol eIn l ight of Moore's r emark that his partners were aware ofraIse informa t i on, we Invite comparison to re peat ed r emarks byMSF that no t a sing le guest ion has been r a ised that would castdoubt on the documen ts , whIch they endorse as strong evidence ofMJ_ 12. If a source feed s in for mation, at l eas t par t of whi ch isknown t o be false, how can good r esearche r s possibl y dec la re the

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J) That Moore and his contacts were responsible for "droppings ubtle hints " that Ooty was t he myste rious "Falcon" todraw at tention away from the real Falcon .Comment: "Falcon" and "Condor" we r e two or Moore's sour ce sappearing on the UFO Cov er_ Up _ Live l TV show i n October 1987.CAUS was the fi rs t source to draw a connection between Ri Cha r dOoty and Falcon , based on Doty ' s connection to past f a lse documents .Moore and his " h i n t s ~ ha s nothing to do with this deCision. Ourreasons we re clear l y def ined in the Sept ember 1987 I s su e or JustCause. Since Oo ty wa s exposad as a source, Moore has demot ed h i ~from a Fal con t o a "Spar row- and ha s lo t roduced anot her unknowncharac ter as falcoo . We' ve seen no evidence that such an indi vid ualexis t s. Ve do reca l l t hat when Ooty ' s oa_e ca.e i ot o the con t ra .versy an abs ur d t ale was concocted t hat there wer e t wo RiChard Oo ty sto take the heat off of Ooty. Both Hoa r e and Doty played th is ga mewith serious researcher s for a whlle but i t wa s gradually pu shedinto th e b a ~ g r o u n d when th e sham wor e thio.

4 ) T h HSF's pos i t io n on the documen ts has a l ways beenone of neutra l i t y and that t hey don't know whe t he r ornot t he paper s ar e authentic (see page 10 , Vegas speech ).3

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Com.ent : f c o ~ rocus, 9 - 1 5 _ 8 7 . ~ T h e c i s a lso compel l i ng evidence that . . ( t he Ei senhower BriefIng Pa per ) may we l l be authen t ic , "From u r o UtO Jour na l , Ju ly 1987, (p ag e 11 a r t i c l eby Moore) ," . . . t I s our cons idered opinion . . . tha t the do cument a ndi t ' s co ntents appear to be genuine. "f roll t he sime a r t i eie , " Indeeduncove r ed a t the Na tIo nal Archives whichthe e ~ l s t e of a n HJ - 12 group 1n 195A, ; ; i dt he National Secur i ty CouncI l and the .to i t . " (Ealphasis added)From Hoo r e 's own Veg as speech ,"We have been ableto confI r m that t here I s In fact . group known IS MJ-12 wh ic h oper_ate s at the White House /Na t i onal Security Council le vel."f rom the Vegas ,peech(on the Cut l er/T wi ni ng ~ e m o . . 1 can s t . t e wi th reasonable cer t a inty tha t it is an authen t iCdocumen t . -Who are HSF trying to kid? They haye been t he Major promotersof the e ~ l s t e n c of HJ - 12 s ince the sto ry fi r s t br ok e. They r e fuseto l end Iny weIght to even the s ~ l l l e s t flaw in the ta le , nevar mindthe ~ a j o r ones, and t hey continue to heap abuse on those who raise

s erious questions about i l .If HSF are truly neut ra l now , le t us see a paper by the i rchie f s p o e ~ . Stanton fr ied.an, deta i l in g wha t he perceiyes asthe we aknesses in t he s t ory. A good scient is t would be gl ad to dothis In t he interest or balance and ralrness.However, we don't expect such to p p e n What is clear Int his recent ciaim of neu t ra l i ty is that HSf ar e t rying to leaye aback door open, mueh l I ke t he one Hoo r e wa s said to haye slippedthrough to ayo id a qu est ion and answer session at the Vega s sym posium after hi s speech. The y may t hen claim that l r the story doesseriously co l l apse in t hei r eyes , they can say that t hey neyerreal l y suppo rted i t whole-hear tedly in the fir s t place.-THE BRIG HTES T FLASHES IN THE WORLD Of THOUGHT ARE INCOMPLETEUNTIL THE V HAVE BEEN PROV ED TO HAVE THEIR COUNTERPART S INTHE WORLO OF FAC T" (.John Ty nda l l )

5) Tha t t he t e s t i m o ~ y giyen on the UFO Cover_Up - Live !TV show l as t October by f a l c o n ~ and -Condo r ft wa s atleast part ial , and possib l y substantial, disinfo rmation.C o m ~ a n t In the r are si tuat ion where tw o hours of prime l imete leyi slo n are given ove r to a fayorabl e presentation of UFOs, herewe ha ve a fai r portion of the las t hour wasted In presenting whatMoore adm i ts to be false data. He knew in adva nce what the test i monywould be r o ~ Fa lc on and Condor since t he in t e rviews were tape d. Ve

he saw fi t to go ahead and car ryo n a charade , ma king UfO researchlook r id i cul ous i n the pr ocess. Aema rk s by Falcon and Condo r abou tt he aliens' l i f es t yle and pre f erence for Ti betan music and s t r awberry iee cre am were la ughable .r l e d ~ a n has agreed that the TV show wa s I disaster but willnot aC kno wled ge that mu eh of the blame l ies with the MSF team forsuppl yIng the show wi t h the raw ma t eri al fo r this fIasco. Wh er e wasthe careful research here?What is r eal ly gal l ing i s tha t promi nent UFO researchers whoshould know bet l er co.pletely s quandered th i s chance to present UfOin the best possib le l ight to mi l l ions of Ylewers. "oor e , in s tead,

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excuses this gaffe by sayIng thatt rue, it lIust be important ason fV to t e ll theIr sto ry.issue Is the .hole sto ry, not todocs Inh i s Vegas speech. An d , wethe same individua l s .. ho .eredislnrormation by Hoor e ' s ownarranging a meeting ~ I t h onc or moretheir s tor ies l Mo or e seems to deligh tmeeting will take place and activelymake uro research look in the eyes 0come o f f looking l ike a bunch of flaky,.en who even s I t dow n and take the t i .efull blaae fOf such. developMent.

"n Vegas,and who f edort e l lthisthisprobably' : ,: Congress -" Clm tak e

6) Th a t Richard Ooty was, according to Hoare, alm os t certainly a part of the Ellsworth Are document fa ke (seeMurON uro Journal , January 1984), but not 1n a capac i tyto be responsible for creat ing the documents. And tha tDoty faked the "Craig Weit Zi'll le t ter" (see our E ~ h i b i t 1,this issue) In 1980, saying it lia s "baltM sent to APROto rec r uit an I n f o r ~ a n t .Com.ent : We would l ike to know how Moore knows that Dotydid no t c re ate the El l sworth docu_ent? Oid Doty say so and t ha t wasgood enough? Hoore has a l r eady acknowledged Doty as a dlslnrormantand as being Invo l ved In f a l se d o c u ~ e n t cases . Doty's InvolvementIn both or the above - men tioned cases served as much of the basisfor CAUS' conclusion that he is behind much of the MJ-12 dlslnform atlon. Hoore's revelations in t hi s area were no surpr ise a t a l lto us. Also not su r pr Ising was the l ac k or co.ment on our conc l usions about Doty by e xcep t ror the two - Doty story whichfew believed . Indeed , when Hoore said i n his speech that peoplecontacti ng Doty fo r more in fo r_a t ion were _aklng nuisances or themselves, he was correct . But neithe r would they get any t ruth rromHoa r e ' s source.

r) That the "Aquarius Document" of 11 November 1980, Isnot a genuine government document.Comment : This Is the f ir s t pi ece of pap er ment ioning an HJ_ 12by name. Hoore c la i ms i t is a re-typed version of a genuine document with false info r mation added. Since Hoare has admit ted thatDoty, as a r r o w , " was his lIaison ~ a n t o falcon, and since Hoor esays tha t i t was "apparently created by AfDSI (A i r force Of f ice ofSpecial Investigations)" and handed to him In feb ruary 198 1, we mustconcluded th a t Doty was the source of thIs as we l l . Hoore didn' t

n a ~ e hi s source i n the Vegas speech prObab l y for the r oason thatn a ~ i n g Ooty as a source or another false paper would c o ~ p o n d Qn

~ l r e a d ) ' bad si tuat ion. (see CAUS Bullet in, Oecember 1985 , for acop y of the Aquar ius paper)We have no "rea l" Aquarius document to IIhich we can refer ,so Hoare's Indications In his speech as to what Is or i s not auth_entic ~ a t l o n In the document does nothing for hi s case.8) That the ArDS! dOCUMents de sc ribing UfO 5igh tlng s a tKirtland A'B , N.M. in 1980 are au thenti c.

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the best of his knowledge t he y are genuine.Considering Doty ' s connection to the previously-mentionedfalse documents, we must question the accuracy o f the informationas given i n the OSl C o ~ p l a i n t Form dated 2-9 September , 1980 (seeCLEAR INTENT, pgs. 224-25). We ack nowledge that th is document, alongodth other documents on Paul Bennewltl , were ofr ic ia l ly f i led andoff ic ia l ly released under t he Freedom of Information Act . Thus,they are genuine government documents in that they were producedas off ic ia l records .However, e vidence of Doty ' s false statements are already onrecord, acknowledged by Moore in his speech and through ot he r documented material s . Since the 051 Complaint Form was the only document in the Ki r t land group t hat was authored by Doty, and sincewe have no reason as yet to Question the other documents in thegroup regarding 8ennewitz, his vis i t to Kir t land , and subsequentin teres t by Senator Oomenici, we must consider that the ComplaintForm contains distor t ions of fact In i t 's descriptIon of UFO sight -ings. In the case of the Craig Weitzel l e t te r , Doty took a ratherordinary sighting by 8 real Craig We t t l e l and dramatized I t beyonda ll real i ty, according to la te r Interviews with weitzel himself.As such , we have reason to suspect a similar scenario wi th Kirt land."HUMANKIND CANNOT BEAR VERY MUCH REALI TV." (1.5. Eliot)An additional curiousity surfaced upon r e - e ~ a m l n a t i o n of thevideo tape of the KPIX_TV San Francisco documentary "The UFO Experience," produced In 1962. The tape reveals that a copy of the051 Compla in t form shown is dirferen t from the subsequent releaseto CAUS of the Kirtland f i les discussed in CLEAR INTENT. Thls TVcopy was stamped "Secret" and the t i t l e and date of the incidentwere typed different ly . Our copy i s stamped "For Offic ia l Use Only ."Ther e i s no evidence that our copy was ever downgraded from ahighe r l evel. The TV copy i s said to have been leaked to Bil l Moo reby a s o u r c e ~ In Washington , O.C. in January 1982 (see "UfO Landingnear Kirtland AfB , or Welcome to the Cosmic Watergate" by Bru ceMaccabee with comments by Bil l Moore).While not apparent at the time, we now consider th is a l ter_ation suspicious. When these f i les were Ci rcula t i ng, another document was making the rounds of the UFO grapevine. Known as the"Radar Jamming Document" (see our Exhibit 2 th is i ssue) , th is wasan identical 051 Complaint form to the Qriginal Kirtland sightingComplaint form. I t was s ty l i s t ica l ly ve ry much l ike the sightingform, and , we feel , i t came from the same typewriter as that usedwith the sighting form . Si milar magic_marker deletions (non-govern -ment) a ppear as well .This document has not been verif ied through FOIA and is con_

sidered highly suspicio us . Yet, one may fInd a "Secret" stamp oni t identical to the one used on the "leaked H Kirtland 051 Complaintform tha t was given to the TV show by Moore, and la ter obtai ned ine different form, via FOIA. feel that the document was producedby Doty.An in terest ing scenario i s suggested here. A document i sleaked to Moore to Impress him. But i t will not l ikely be takenseriously because it wasn 't off ic ia l ly released, appearing as i tdid under mysterious circumstances.So, hoping that In his s ta tus as a pub l ic figur e Moore willsoon make the document openly available, the leaker prepares another6

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copy and uses h is posItIon t o f i le i t "lth OSl . Official at tentionmay have ari sen about I "Secret " paper beIng flIed, so th e use ofthe class i f ica t ion "ror Off ic ia l Us e On l y" wou l d be less conspicuo us.The le aker rubber - s t e llps the new copy to t hi s leve l . Upon publicdi scuss Ion ot the TV broadcest , t he l ea ker would hop e that sOlleonef l Ies an r OI A r equest end discovers the paper planted at OSI. In ractthe leake r cou l d e ~ p e c t a great l i kel ihood of this happening sinceCAUS was very ac t ivel y seeking ou t govern.ent UFO docullent s . Aquestion arises: Why d idn ' t Hoore a ttempt t o confi rm hi s l eakeddocuftent thro ugh rOJA prIor to a TV ai r ing of i t ' s illage? Wh y a l1 0"an i ndependen t source (CAUS) to obte ln "pr oo f" t ha t the docUlllent we sgenuIne? Perhaps the intentIo n " as to allo" a n I ndependent t o do thecon' l rlla t l on and have the dOCUlient accepted as au t hen t ic wit houtquest Ion so i t woul d not lo ok l i ke an " i n- ho use" Job by a sllla U co l l ective of di s in ' or.ant s .

sources'"n InquiInto thei nte r es tsub jec tullent,'"''"

faw ce t t had checked with sources in t he KIr t l and casecou ld inSide in to rllation _ the New Mex Ico Sta tetwo OSI COlplai nt Forni about t he sightings IU k Ua New e ~ I c o Sta t e Patrolman. The sightings ta t ement was to theat Kirt l and and heagenc y.at the State Po l l eesuch an inCident ever occurring,by the Ai r Force, and nos report, aside from Doty's br i e 'fUes.that an effect ive way to get1.,;" to have it planted In an officialForA or whatever? Correct 1 In ourCutler/Tw in i ng m oangr i ly r es is ted byFriedman acknowledges a plant

CIT memo 's appea ranc e at thes t i l l genuine , planted byabOut UrOs out .Ju ly ) 0 , 198 1, reportsand an aid e , a IoI r . Tij eras,228) . The Senator ' stz la s t heto the do c _by AFOS ! ."opera t i on wa $AFOS ! agentror a nUlbe rof yea rs .So one may add t o t he l i $t of ~ c r e d i t s ~ accum ula t ed by Moore 'scontac t s: Clving de l iberate ly raI se and misleading in foraat i on to aUn ited St a te$ Se nator i nquiring In t o a co ns t i tuanes di f fi cul t i e s .

"TRUTH EX ISTS, ONLY FALSEHOOD HAS TO BEINVEN TEO." (G eor ges Braque)9) That on one hand "T here ist ieye (tha t the Eisenhowerbu t authent ic ," but on ther emains 'a r fro ... proved."

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no compe l l ing reason to be Br ie f ing Paper) is anythingot her hand,"I t ' s authenticit y(V ega s speech)

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C D ~ m e n t This is the convoluted t h l n ~ i n g we ace now gettingfrom HSF. If there 15 no r eason to doubt the document, why does i tremain far f rom p roved? ~ e see this because MSr have been clearadvocates of MJ . 12 and have not been neutral , objective and, especIa l ly , SCient if ic as they pain t themselves to be. In l igh t of themany se r ious Questions raised about the sto ry. they wish to leavethei r options open now. Though not admItting any flaws In MJ -12documents a t present, th e above contradictory comments wil l allowHSF t o play both sides of the fence as this l a le f urther un fol ds.10) That the s o-called Tr uman ~ E x e c u t l v e Order" of Sept_ember 24, 1947, " t hough not yet dlspr ovcd . p resentst he weakest case o f the t h r e e . ~ (_eanlng the E l s e n h o ~ e rBriefing Paper, t he Cutler /T wining _ e ~ o and the TrumanE. O. )

Comment: Hoore consid ers th e document ~ i t h some quest ion ,,"cn t io nlng the unspecIfied "mhed results" of analysts whom hesee.s to take quite ser iously.Vet , Hoare a l so de sc ribe s this very paper as being the f i nalabout which HSF have repeatwhi ch woulda ny doubt on i t .Hoare has s ta led that a number of questioned-documents exper t sha ve examined t he HJ- 12 papers. Where are the resul ts of these e xper t analyses? A Ju ly /August 1987 issue of t he - I n t e rna t ional UFO

R e o o r t e r ~ quotes editor Jero.,e Clark as saying, "Horeover a relateddocUillent, whIch Klass and Kurt:z have calle d , Is nowto be almost

Fu r t hermore , from an issue of Hoare's newsle t te r ( Focus , 2_88): ' he previously Top Sec re t 1952 brief ing document . . has been de _clared authentic rollowing examination by a world _reknown professorof l1ngulst . lcs."As a note of in teres t , when the above_mentioned professo rbacked away fr ow endo rsemen t or the 6rIeflng Pape r (see Just Cause,Oece_be r 1988) , there was no re por t ing of this a t a i l fro_ NSF. I thas not been mentioned s in ce."" KNOIO WHIIT II PERSON HUNKS No r WHENTH INKS, BUT BV HIS ACTIONS. " HE TELLS WHAT liE(Isaac Sinller)The end of Hoare 's ta l k la unched Into an attack on .uch oft he UFO community for i t ' s petty bickering, rumors, personal andpoli t ical grudges and PONer pl ays. The fac t Is that the ~ S F team

have been l a r g e l ~ responsible fo r many o f the wild rumors of thelas t five , years. To scourge the uro communi ty, a f ter admitting toand encouraging fa l se informatIon, is the height of h ~ p o c r a c y . Hooreadvocates a MSociety of Professional U F O l o g i s t s ~ Nhich will es tab l isha "rigorous set of ethics M and l imits I t ' s membe r ship t o Man e l i tefew whose abi l l t ies have been demonstrated. Presumably this societywould incorporate the standards and techniques , and ethical concerns,that Moo re des cribes In h is vegas speech: withholding of infor mat ion,deliberate deception, indIfference to th e health and welfare off rIe nds and co l l eagues , alteration and fa ls i f ica t ion of governmentdocu_ents.8

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Add to this l i s t an unmitigated arrogance as the UFO communityhas been warned that Moore and colleagues, "will continue to pr 'o-...ceed in the way which we feel best sui ts our purposes."(page t o,Vegas speech)We note that early in the speech Moore claimed a very modestl i fes ty le . He stated that he was not in this for the money and is"not looking for a handout." But la te r in the talk the audience isurged to "make a donation to the effort ." The UFO community has re

sponded to money requests by Msr in sizab l e amounts, $16,000 goingto stanton Friedman, for example, for a study of HJ _12. Unfortunately,judging from Hoore's speech, a l l the UFO community is gett ing is aslap in the race.ALTERNATIVE MOTIVES?

All of what we have said in this report assumes that Moore'sVegas. speech is the t ruth. We do not rule out other possible explanations and motivations ror the things said and done on HJ-12during this ent i re decade. Is the motivation nothing more simplethan trying to make money ofr the UFO field? I t ' s a possibi l i ty thatwe have resis ted as i t is much too pat an explanation. We have oftenheard members of the public say about UFO books,"Oh, they're i n i tfor the buck!" We now enter tain this explanation. Consider:- A copy of Hoore's speech was not made available to HUFONprior to th e symposium in Las Vegas. Customariiy, a ii speeches arecollected and published under one cover For the benefi t of the hostorganization. Instead, Hoore withheld his paper and sold the 18-page presentation for ten dollars a copy, forcing HUFON to requirethat in the future a speaker may not deiiver a speech without priorsubmission of a paper.- "William L. Hoore Publications" offerings were removedfrom the l i s t ings Of the Arcturus Book Service in June 1989 (see

Arcturus 800k Service, BOOKLIST 1989-6) due to exceedingly i a te ,or even non-fulfi l led paid orders. Arcturus is one of the very fewspecial is t UFO book se l le rs in existence and very serious problems~ u s t be evident to be thrown off of the catalog.

- Moore has offered for sale copies of a 20-minute video tapefeaturing Richard Ooty,explaining his involvement in the Kirtlandsightings of 1980. A $29.95 price tag was put on the tape, excessivefor only a 2D-minute segment. An a d ~ e r t l s i n g brochure s ta ted, "Youcan hear his voice and decide whether or not he is te l l ing the t ruth.We know he i s . See fo r yourself." ( E ~ p h a s i s added) Among the "truths"told on this tape was that linda Howe, producer of the cat t ie mutil_ation film "A strange Harvest," contacted Doty to ask questions aboutUFOs, cat t le mutilations; etc . Ooty sa i d he couldn' t answer thequest i ons she asked but invited her onto Kirtland for a vis i t . Ootysaid on the tape, "I know nothing about Project Aquarius and nothingabout UFO invest igat ions," except, of course, f or the Kirtland sightings. However, Moore, in his Vegas speech (page 11), t e l l s howa dis i nformation "game" was played out wi th HOlOe, whereby Dotydeliberately fed her false information at the ~ e e t i n g she describedin a sworn aff idavi t (see CAUS Bullet in, Oecember 1987). Mooreboasted as to what a "very effect ive decept ion" it was. Howe tOidthe truth about what she was to l d at the Kirtland meeting, Ooty l ied

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on Moore's tape, an d Moore advertised this tape as th e "truth"at nearly $30 a copy lThe tape i t se l f wa s e xtremely hard to get from WLM Publicat ions. We are aware of numerous complaints of la te or unf ul f i l l e dorders . CAUS f inally did get a copy and found the technical qualI tyvery lacking, with nu merous "rol ls" and "dropouts. " A CAUS associate,Rick Giordano, borrowed a copy from uS for viewing. On what amountedto only the third running of the tape, i t broke inside Giordano'smachine. He brought the tape to a repair shop and was told tha t i twas a bottom-of-the-barrel qual i ty video casset t e. The tape spoolSimply came apar t . We've patched i t back together and hope I t doesn' tdISintegrate on the shelf l $29.95 per copy l

- Moore t r ied to pass th is stor y across as a Fiction novel(s ee Just Cause, March 1989) In 1982._ Moore once told Larry Fawcett, af ter an attempt to get togetheto work on the MJ-12 problem early in the story, that he refus e d anycooperation because he "had to put bread on his t able. "_ In what seemed to be an out-oF-place statement in his speech,Moore made reference to Whitley Str ieber and his opinions of him.Referring to an inI t ia l feeling of being skept ical and Jealous ofWhitley, Mo ore the n praised him, saying Whitley ' s experience "givesev ery appearance of beIng a real si tuat ion."What Moore doesn ' t say here Is that a f ic t ion novel called"MAJESTIC n i s due very short ly from Whitley Str ieber , with the ful lpart icipation of William Moore. Credit must be given . Moore hasmanaged to parlay th is story to the extent o f convincing an authorof mega-best-sel lers to th r ow his weight behind i t .However, it seems strange to us that the ef for t s of MS. toconvInce the publIc that there Is something to this story Culminatesin the f i r s t book-length t r eatment of i t being fictionT

FINAL WOROIn Stanton ' r iedman's speech a t Las Vegas he makes the following comment, "Members of Just Cause have been constantly harpingagainst the documents. Their motivation i s not clear , and the i rmethodology i s less clear . "Members of CAUS, not Just Cause, have been qui te crystal clearwith regard to motivation and methodology . But we will help Friedmanunderstand th is once again: We are convinced tha t the documentsoriginate f r om suspiCiOUS sources. Our motivation i s to save the UFOcommu nity time and money , and bad publ ic i ty , on a hopelessly flawedstory. We, and others , have gone into great de ta i i to explain why wesee I t l ike th i s . Profess ional Jealousy and "sour grapes," as Moorehas said, have no bearing on the matter. I f MS. would at leas t admit

that there are severe problems with the MJ_12 ta le , we would l a y o f f .But i t has been pushed, promoted and marketed and big money has entered the pic ture . A perfectly respectable area of research, the studyof unexplained aer ia l phenomena, is being made to loo k foolish ina ll of th is controversy . We perceive an immense credibi l i ty damageto th is subject a t present. Not many e ven seem to care anymore.However, we will continue to put our point of view on record.In closing his s peech, Moore says about hi s act iv i t ies thatone may Climb aboard and hang on or get off the t racks. I f one l i kesto be taken for a ride, then by a l l means c l i mb aboard.NEXT ISSUE: Back to normal!

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STANTON T . FR IEDMANNUCLEAR PHYSICIST . LECTURER

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(506) 457-0232Edi tor . JUllt CausePOB 218coventry , CT 06238 Ju ly 19. 1989subject : JUSt ca use , Number 20. June 1989 re Ma j e s t i c 12Dear Si r :The su b j e c t i ssu e r e fe r s to me tw i c e co ncRrninq MJ - 12 a nd pr eso n t s non-factu a l informat ion which could hav e been avoided if I had bee n con tacted .1 . There was no b e t between me and Ph i1 l p Kl ass . Here i s wha t he sa idin hi s c ha l lenge of Ja nu a r y 16, 1989. ~ E n c s e d i s a r ep re s en t a t i vesample o f typefaces used by Cut le r and Lay ' s of f i c es dur ing the 1 9 ~ 3 - 5 7pe r iod ... 'lou .. i l l note in tn e t rad i t ion ot t ha t e ra , t ho se White 1I0useExecu t i ves used the smal le r El i t e typeface . Bu t t he a l l e ged Cut le r /Twin ingmemo o f July 14 uses t he l a r ge r Pic a typeface . I cha l lenge you to p roduce~ n o w n - t o b e ~ u t h e n t i c Wh i t e lIouse / busin ess l e t t e r s/memo r a nda wri t ten byCu t l e r o r ~ a y dur ing the 1 95 3 - 57 t lme period which use a typefacei dent i ca l i n s ize and s ty l e to t h a t used in the a l l eged Cut le r /Twi n ingmemo o f July 1954 . To provide motivat ion fo r your prompt respons efor an s r t l.c le I plan to wri te , I herewi t h offe r to psy yo u $100 . f or esc hs uch l e t t e r you can provid e in the next 60 days , with an upper lim ito f $1000 .... "Pleas e note t ha t the more than a do zen memos r suppl ied in thePICA Came f rom t h ~ Eisenhower Libra ry whe r e thef o r the Ike year s are located and ~ f r ~ theArchives . There a t l e a s ~ 3 d i f f e r e n t t y p e ~ f a c used inc luding 2PI CA typefaces NOte fu r t her t ha t Klass assume d he could . . ke abased o n 9 . of mo r e than 250, 000!! He a lso se n t copiesOf I mo r e than 1 dozen memos e tcObv ious lX1atood to 10s

~ , > O " ' the o r i ~ i n not -..emO not genul ne .2. More comm ents a nd quest ion s a re ra i sed l ower on paqe 4 o f t he s ame i ssuwi th regard to th e le t t e r f r om Ed Reeee . Le t me do my bes t to a ns wer them.1. Wh y in th c world would Reo . e remembo r somebody c a su a l ly handinghim a sheet of paper and reques t ing t ha t s copy be made of it when Reesehandles loads of papers every day? Moo re and Shandera d i dn ' t sa YHERE ISTilE MOST IMPO RTflNT DI SCOVER'! SINCE": PEANUT BUTT ER :' . o r " look a t this ,Ed ' ora ny suc h no n nse . They asked fo r a copy. He took the shee t withoutlooking a t it, went t o th e copy machine. made th ree copies o f d i f f e re n tcon t ras t because the ca r bon - on _ o ld o n ions k in doesn ' t copy we l l on t he l rmachine. He then spent SOme t ime looking fo r th e Reco(d Group 341stamp . and f ina l ly stamped the back o f the copies . Cleara nce oft ha t of pape r s had been done by s t e a m ;o f USAF r e s e rv i s t s ea r l ie r .c lea r a box t h a t i ~ i t . Of t en they do stamp each i nd iv idua lin poi n t i s the othe r t wo Cut l e r found a t the Libra ryManusc r ip t Divsion In 198 1 in the nq f i l e . Both werc. ne i the r w"s stamped decla51i i f ied /'larCh 1989 wh e n I wasa Nippon TV c r ew ready to fi lm them. "declassf ied"wasa 11 Q S e n 1 ~ j r " i " ! l i I ! , " , . . . At .

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2 F'.i"dman to Edi to . , Ju s t Ca"se 7 / 1"have no idea o f wh,lt i s ,neant by the memo being presented fo r c l ea ranTh" box had " l . eady been c lea red .Ree5e co" ld not c lea r . lie co"ld stampw h a t ~ c o . d group it came f.om .Loads of i tems in a l l Aechives have nopropee r eg i s t r a t i on numbe.s . . such aH the othee t"'o C"t l e r memOS in thT",ining f i l e s . I t "'QuId be t . u ly remarkable if Ed Reese . e memberedeveey piece of paper he handled in h is many years i1t the Archives ...espec ia l ly severa l years a f t e r the filct .

2 . Why i s it s ign i f i can t t ha t no ment io n was made in t h i s br i e f item bme of t he postcaeds "'hi ch lcd Moore and Shandera to DC (NO-r TO -rillS MEr do mention the post ca rds in moo:e for ma l papees done l a t e r . I ",aseead a t l ease One Ovee the phone in ea r ly 1985. I was a l so phoned a f t ethe CT memO wa S found a f t ee Moore and Shandera had gone through over100 boxes . 'rhey had al ready picked ou t moo:e than 70 i tems fo r l a t e rreproduc t io n in the s evera l days of searching . Th e s t range postca rdsmsde it c l e a r t ha t Washington and the National Archives should be v i s i tThe:.' menticIled P.eese'!' p ieces . I had been v i s i t in'] Reese ","en I f i ..->;tfound ou t in March t ha t Record Cro up 341 (USAF ItQ, In t e l l i gence ) wasbeing r e v ~ ~ d and should be done sOOn. I t took mont hs longer than expecand s e v e r a ~ ca l l s on my pa r t befo . e t he b ~ g day was reached. I t i st rue t ha t th e re turn address does inc lude Box 189, Addis Ababa"and t ha t it was recognized a f t e r the f a c t by Moore and Shandera t hat thmemO was in Box 189.3. There ~ s no ind ica t ion t ha t in a t echn ica l sense the memo "'as"c lea red" for r e l ease i n 1985. I ! was found in 1985 , ' cop ied a t the Archstam.ped on the back. I received a copy Od,both s ides . 1.ater Bruce Maccaasked t ha t h is eopy be s ta mped On the f ron t . The c lo ses t ind ica t iont ha t it had been somewhere off ica1 and t ha t somebody wanted it c lea redwas prepared to c l e a r it i s the s l a n t red penc i l l ine through thesecur i ty marking. This i s s t andaro prac t i ce a t sOme a rch ives . I personhave made sO many copies of th e dalCn memo t ha t I t would be d i f f i c u l tindeed to ;'go through my of f i ce fu l l of papers to t ry to f inda copy t ha t meetS your s t . ange needs . But ",hat Cor?May I re spec t fu l ly sugges t t ha t anybody with a se r ious i n t e r e s t ~ nthe l eg i t imacy o f the th ree primary Operat ion Ma j e s t i c 12 documentsread my publ ished papers de r ived from a gre a t dea l of t ime spent a t va"""chi ':,,s and responding to var ious cr i t i c i sms and discover ing load sof p o ~ i v e f ind i ngs and still no evidence of f raud? Cer ta in ly myresearch fo r the Fund for UFO Research gcant i s no t ye t complete and Smore Archive v i s i t s are planne d . . some to review mate r i a l t ha t i s prely under c l a s s i f i c a t i o n review . .-I would a l so sugges t t h a t it i s usua l ly s tandard j ou rna l i s t i c prac t i ceto con tac t both s ides on cont rove rs i a l i s sues ,I must a l so say t ha t the i ns i s t ence of abduct ioseems a ve .y s t r ange One. 'I'he cour t s ",ay.Does th i s mean th a t I carlnOt cla im t ha t government has hydrogenbombs in i t s s tockp i l e s without producing one . and perhaps demons t ra tone?? perhaps I should c la i m t ha t u n t i l somebody p o : o d u ~ e s one of the 1Uf'O documents t ha t the NSA i s withold ing , t ha t no s "ch documents ex i s tJ us t as punishment i s supposed to fit th e cr imf , the form o f evidence mfit th e ques t ion a t hand. Science , for example of ten depends upon pcedu b i l i t y and ceprod u c i b i l i t y . Because 1 can n e i ~ h c r p r e d i c t nor eeprodumassive so la r f la e m : ; ' : 1 v ~ ~ a r t h q u a k e s does NOT mean they don ' t o