Chapter 18—Government Disinformation

Friends in High Places: Our Journey from Little Rock to Washington, D. C. by

Webb Hubbell, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997, pp. 282.

Saucer Smear, Vol. 44, No. 6, June 20th, 1997, pp. 2-3.

An amusing trickster connection with cattle mutilations can be suggested. On the day Hermes was born, he stole Apollo’s cattle and killed some of them.

Under the rubric of “paranormal” I am including psychic and UFO phenomena and cattle mutilations. In cultural terms, these areas are defined as paranormal. In the scientific sense, there is massive evidence that some psychic and UFO phenomena cannot be understood within conventional scientific frameworks. I have seen no reasonable evidence that ET aliens are visiting earth, but some UFOs have produced physical effects that defy explanation. The evidence for

some fundamentally unexplained aspect of cattle mutilations is yet unclear. There has been much less investigation of that phenomenon. 5 Fawcett & Greenwood, 1984, p. 206.

Fawcett & Greenwood, 1984, p. 207. 7 Fawcett & Greenwood, 1984, p. 207. Haines, 1997, p. 72. There are no consistent page numberings on the Internet version of Haines’ paper. The quote here appeared just before footnote 33.

Haines, 1997, p. 73. The quote appeared a bit before Haines’ footnote 46. Haines, 1997, p. 83. Quote in Haines’ footnote 90.

11 Ibid.

Haines, 1997, p. 78. This statement appeared in Haines’ text after footnote 89.

Haines, 1997, p. 83, footnote 90.

For a brief overview of the pervasive alien motifs in American popular culture in the 1990s, see Dean, 1998. For data on movie grosses, see The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, Mahwah, NJ: World Almanac Books, 1997, p. 250.

Todd’s suspicion that the Roswell crash object was a Mogul balloon was leaked in Saucer Smear, Vol. 38, No. 4, May 1st, 1991, p. 4. See also Skeptics UFO Newsletter, No. 30, November 1994; Saler, Ziegler, & Moore (1997).

16 UFOs and the U.S. Government by William L. Moore, MUFON UFO Journal, No. 259, November 1989, pp. 8-16, 18, No. 260, December 1989, pp. 8-14.

There is much written about the MJ-12 documents. For a useful reference see UFOs, MJ-12 and the Government: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals by Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain, Jr., 1991.

Randle issued an open letter on September 10, 1995. It is reported in Saucer Smear, Vol. 42, No. 9, October 10th, 1995, pp. 5-6 and Skeptics UFO Newsletter, No. 36, November 1995, pp. 3-4.

Fawcett & Greenwood, 1984, pp. 224-225. Greenwood has since voiced

suspicion about these, see Just Cause, No. 50, March 1997, p. 5.

Moore did not say that he had never been paid for his services, but only

that he was not on the payroll, as pointed out by Jacques Vallee (1991, p. 47).

Source Confesses Role as ‘Controlled Informant’ by Don Ecker, UFO,

Vol. 7, No. 1, 1992, pp. 11-12.

See the report “Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up?” (Durant [& Hansen], 1992).

Howe, 1989/1993, p. 147. Howe had reported some of this in a letter published in CAUS Bulletin, No. 9, December 1987, pp. 2-4. See also Just Cause,

No. 16 (New Series), June 1988, pp. 2-7 for material from Howe, Doty, and Barry Greenwood. More material is found in Just Cause, No. 13 (New Series), September 1987, pp. 8-9.

Vallee, 1991, pp. 13-42.

Gersten’s meetings are reported in Linda Howe’s An Alien Harvest (pp. 134-136). Gersten confirmed the accuracy of her account in a letter to me postmarked 28 Oct 1998. Briefer accounts appear in Just Cause, No. 16 (New Series), June 1988. This includes “Notes on Peter Gersten’s Meeting with SA Richard Doty, 1/83 (phone con with Gersten after his trip to New Mexico.)” by Barry Greenwood.

The Anatomy of a Hoax: The Truth About the ‘Ellsworth Case’ by Bob Pratt, MUFON UFO Journal, No. 191, January 1984, pp. 6-9.

Letters and telephone calls with Linda Howe, 15, 29 October 1998 and 5 November 1998.

For more information, see the Epilogue in Clear Intent by Fawcett and Greenwood.

Gullibility of Moore, Shandera and Friedman Revealed by New Data on Their Principal MJ-12 Source—Richard C. Doty—”Falcon” by Philip J. Klass, one page, dated 4/14/89.] Klass later reported that “The USAF decided against a court-martial because it would disclose counterintelligence details.” Skeptics UFO Newsletter, #34, July 1995, p. 6.

Airman Mendez vs the Bureaucracy—A Case of UFO “Espionage”, Just Cause, No. 28, June 1991, pp. 1-8; Airman Mendez vs the Bureaucracy—Part Two, Just Cause, No. 29, September 1991, pp. 1-8.

Howe, 1989/1993, p. 137-143. See p. 142 for quote.

Telephone call to Barry Hennessey, 28 February 1999.

Letter from Richard L. Weaver to George P. Hansen, 18 March 1999.

See Vallee, 1991, p. 229.

Hiding the Hardware by Bruce Maccabee, International UFO Reporter, Vol. 16, No. 5, September/October 1991, pp. 4-10, 23; see pp. 10 & 23.

Gulf Breeze Double Exposed: The “Ghost-Demon “ Photo Controversy by Zan Overall, Chicago, IL: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 1990; Anatomy of the Gulf Breeze (Walters’) UFO Case by Carol A. Salisberry and Rex C. Salisberry, April 18, 1992.

Skeptics UFO Newsletter, No. 5, Sept. 1990, p. 1.

The Gulf Breeze Sightings: The Most Astounding Multiple Sightings of UFOs in U.S. History by Ed Walters and Frances Walters, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990.

James Moseley raised the very same point in Saucer Smear, Vol. 47, No. 5, June 15th, 2000, p. 6, saying “Bruce Maccabee is either very gullible indeed, or else he is deliberately spreading disinformation.”

The report was printed in Third Eyes Only, No. 14, July, 1993, pp. 1-14.

The following issue carried a lengthy response by Maccabee.

Skeptics UFO Newsletter, No. 24, November 1993, pp. 1-2.

Even Richard Hall, a close colleague of Maccabee at the Fund for UFO Research, admitted that Maccabee was very taken with William Moore and, as he put it: “lacks some perspective.” See Hall’s letter reproduced in the MUFON UFO Journal, No. 254, June 1989, p. 10.

An entire chapter is devoted to Gordon Novel in The Kennedy Conspiracy: An Uncommissioned Report on the Jim Garrison Investigation by Paris Flammonde, New York: Meredith Press, 1969, pp. 96-109.

On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison, New York: Warner Books,

1991, see pp. 208-211. (First published 1988)

Bizarre Rome Case Ends with Man Pleading Guilty by Betsy Neal, Atlanta

Constitution, November 6, 1977, p. 15-B (page depends on edition).

See the review of The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover produced by William Cran and Stephanie Tepper, Frontline, 1993 by Athan Theoharis, Journal of

American History, Vol. 80, No. 3, December 1993, pp. 1201-1203.

A picture of Alexander with Novel was printed in Saucer Smear, Vol. 41,

No. 9, December 5th, 1994, p. 6.

Victorian formerly used the name Henry Azadehdel. On June 6, 1989, he

was convicted of smuggling orchids into England.

Alexander’s memo was reproduced in Third Eyes Only, No. 19, MarchApril, 1994, pp. 33-38.

Britain in the 90s: Up Against the State by Armen Victorian, Lobster, No. 28, 1994, pp. 12-13. Victorian sent me copies of police reports he filed. If he had filed false ones, he would have been subject to prosecution.

Secret Service ‘Targets’ Military Writer by William Goodwin, The Observer (London), January 1, 1995, p. 10.

The paper Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up? was printed in Third Eyes Only, No. 1, Vernal Equinox, 1992, pp. 26-51.

Durant [& Hansen], 1992, p. 7, Third Eyes Only printing, p. 34. See also Prince Has a Way To Save Democracy: A Stronger Monarch by Greg Steinmetz, Wall Street Journal, July 22, 1997, pp. A1, A6.

“Controlling Government Response: Self Interest in a Nation State System” by C. B. Scott Jones, Proceedings of the International Symposium of UFO Research edited by Maurice L. Albertson and Margaret Shaw, May 22-25, 1992, pp. 59-83.

55 Ibid., p. 68.

Jones’ threat seemed to lack substance. A year later another protest was held in front of the White House, and I marched in it.

57 Mute Evidence by Ian Summers and Dan Kagan, New York: Bantam Books, 1984. See pages 346-371.

See letter from Gerald E. Weinstein to Harrison H. Schmitt, 15 January 1979, this from FBI-Albuquerque file, 198-541-B-1, Apr 27, 1979.

His report Roswell in Perspective (1994) published by the Fund for UFO Research includes a page and a half summary of his career.

Open letter to Steven Greer, published in Saucer Smear, Vol. 44, No. 6, June 20th, 1997, pp. 2-3.

Establishment academics often naively participate in this. An example is the book UFO Crash as Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth (1997). Two of its coauthors were Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler, who are professors of anthropology at Brandeis University. They analyzed the Roswell case as a myth, but they totally neglected the larger context of disinformation from government sources which permeates the UFO field. They mentioned William L. Moore, but Richard Doty was not listed in the index. A brief biographical mention of Pflock totally omitted his employment with the CIA. Saler and Ziegler were oblivious to the larger cultural context of the myths and the role the establishment played in promoting them.