A Collection Of Extraterrestrial Incidents And Coverups Part Six

PART 6_________________________________________________________________  Before he stopped cooperating with such schemes in 1984, Moore said, he had given "routine information" to AFOSI about certain other individuals in the UFO community. Subsequently he claimed that during this period this emphasis)"three other members of the UFO community were actively doing the same thing. I have since learned of a fourth. All four are prominent individuals whose identities, if disclosed, would cause considerable controversy in the UFO community and bring serious embarrassment to two of its major organizations. To the best of my knowledge, at least two of these people are still actively involved" (Moore, 1989b).Although he would not reveal the identities of the government informants within ufology,  Moore gave the names of several persons "who were the subject of intelligence community interest between 1980 and 1984." They were:(1)  Len  Stringfield, a ufologist known for his  interest in crashed-disc stories; in 1980 he had been set up by a counter-intelligence operative who gave him phony pictures of what purported to be humanoids in cold storage.(2) The late Pete Mazzola, whose knowledge of film footage from aNever publicized Florida UFO case was of great interest tocounter-intelligence types. Moore was directed to urge Mazzola to send the footage to ufologist Kal Korff (who knew nothing of the scheme) for analysis; then Moore would make a copy and pass it on to Doty. But Mazzola never got the film, despite promises, and the incident came to nothing. "I was left with the impression," Moore wrote, "that the  file had been intercepted and the witnesses somehow persuaded to cease communication with Mazzola."(3)  Peter  Gersten, legal counsel for  Citizens  Against  UFO Secrecy(CAUS), who had spearheaded a (largely  unsuccessful) legal suit against the NSA seeking UFO information.(4) Larry Fawcett, an official of CAUS and coauthor of a book on the cover-up, Clear Intent (1984).(5) James  and Coral Lorenzen, the directors  of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) periodically "subjects  of on-again, off again interest . . .  mostly passive  monitoring rather than active meddling, "according to Moore. Between 1980 and 1982 APRO employed a "cooperatives secretary who passed on confidential material to counterintelligence personnel.(6)  Larry W. Bryant, who was battling without success in the courts to have UFO secrets revealed. Moore said, "His name came up often in discussions but I never had any direct involvement in whatever activities revolved around him." These revelations sent shock waves through the UFO community. In September CAUS devoted virtually all of an issue of its magazine Just Cause to a harshly critical review of Moore's activities. Barry Greenwood declared that the "outrageousness" of Moore's conduct "cannot be described. Moore, one of the major critics of government secrecy on UFOs, had covertly informed onpeople who thought he was their friend and colleague. Knowing full well that the government people with whom he was dealing were active dis-informants, Moore pursued a relationship with them and observed the deterioration of Paul Bennewitz'[s] physical and mental health.Moore reported the effects of the false information regularly to some of the very same people who were 'doing  it' to Paul. And Moore boasted in his speech as to how effective it was" (Greenwood, 1989). Greenwood complained further about Moore's admission that on the disastrous Cover-up .  .  . Live show Falcon and Condor had said things that they knew were untrue. "In the rare situation where two hours of prime time television are given over to a favorable presentation of UFOs, here we have a fair portion of the last hour wasted in presenting what Moore admits to be false data. Yet he saw fit to go ahead and carry on a charade, making UFO research look ridiculous in the process. Remarks by Falcon and Condor about the  aliens' lifestyle and preference for Tibetan music and strawberry ice cream were laughable." So far as Greenwood and CAUS, skeptical of the MJ-12 briefing document from the first, were concerned, "July 1, 1989, may well be remembered in the history of UFO research as the day when the 'Majestic 12' story came crashing to Earth in a heap of rubble. Cause of death: Suicide!" Nonetheless it seemed unlikely that MJ-12, EBEs, and other cover-up matters would pass away soon. The Dark Siders appeared well on their way to starting a new occult movement in America and elsewhere. Among movie conservative ufologists many legitimate questions about conceivably more substantive matters remained to be answered.  A reinvestigation of the Roswell incident by Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle of CUFOS produced what appeared to be solid new evidence of a UFO crash and cover up.  The emergence of Robert Lazar, who even a  mainstream journalist such as television reporter George Knapp concluded is telling the truth as he knows it possibly suggested a degree of substance to recurrent rumors about developments inArea 51 and S4.  Even Moore's critics were puzzled by the extraordinaryinterest of intelligence operatives in ufologists and the UFO phenomenon, going back in time long before Bennewitz's interception oflow-frequency signals at Kirtland and ahead to the present. Why go to all this trouble and expense, with so many persons over such a period of time, if there are no real UFO secrets to protect? Moore says he is still working with the "birds," who are as active asever. The birds tell him, he says, that disinformation is used not  only against ufologists but even against those insiders like themselves who are privy to the cover-up. Those in charge are "going to great lengths to mislead their own people." At one point the birds were told that there is no substance to abduction reports, only to learn later, by accident, that a major high-level study had been done. "Even people with a need to know didn't know about it," he says. "The abduction mess caused a lot of trouble. There may have been an official admission of  the cover-up by now if the abductions had not come into prominence in the 1980s."As for the stories of ongoing contact between the U.S. governmentand extraterrestrial biological entities, he says there is, in hisobservation, a "pretty good possibility, better than three to one," that such a thing is happening. "But I don't think we can communicate with them. Perhaps we only intercept their communications. Or maybe they communicate with us." He thinks he has found MJ-12. "It's not in a place anybody looked," hesays. "Not an agency one would have expected.  But when you think about it, it fits there" (Moore, 1990). Doty, now a New Mexico State Police officer, was decertified as an  AFOSI agent on July 15, 1986, for "misconduct" related to an incident  (not concerned with UFOs) that occurred while he was stationed in West Germany. In August Doty requested a discharge from the Air Force and was sent to New Jersey to be separated from  the service. But then, Doty says, the Senior Enlisted Advisor for AFOSI made a trip to the Military Personnel Center at Randolph AFB, Texas, and asked that Doty be reassigned to Kirtland, where his son lived. In September Col.  Richard Law, Commander of AFOSI District 70, rescinded Doty's decertification and assigned him to Kirtland as a services career specialist (i.e., an Air Force recruiter). When he left the Air Force  in October 1988, he was superintendent of the 1606 Services Squadron.  Doty remains close to Moore and uncommunicative with nearly everyone else. All he will say is that one day a book will tell hisside of the story and back it up with "Official Government Documents"(Doty, 1989). Sources: Berk, Lynn, and David Renzi. "Former CIA Pilot, Others Say Aliens Are Among Us." Las Vegas Sun (May 22, 1988). Cannon, Martin. 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MUFON UFO Journal 154 (December 1980): 11-16. Todd, Robert G. "MJ-12 Rebuttal." MUFON UFO Journal 261 (January 1990): 17-20.  ENDI have presented all the known information that I could find.  Now you should ask yourself the question, if extraterrestrials did not exist, why did our government go to such extreme lengths to cover up something that they claimed was a non issue?