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STANTON T. FRIEDMAN
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NUCLEAR PHYSICIST-LECTURER
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79 PEMBROKE CRESCENT
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FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK E3B2V1
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CANADA
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(506)457-0232
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May 16, 1987
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To: File
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Subject: Additional comments re documents released by William L. Moore in
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April 30, 1987 FOCUS. Special Focus on MJ-12.
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The members of the MJ-12 Group were truly outstanding Americans all of whom
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had made major contributions during World War 2. I have a mountain of data
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that links the various people all of whom have since died.
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The one surprising name on the list was that of Harvard Astronomer Donald H.
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Menzel. I had picked up on all the others in the course of reviewing many
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files at the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the Truman,
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Eisenhower, and Kennedy Libraries. DHM had written three anti-UFO books and
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made numerous negative comments about the reality of UFOs. How could he
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possibly have been a member of a top notch group(knowing full well in July
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of 1947(after the crash and retrieval near Roswell NM of an Identified
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Alien Craft)of the alien origin of some UFOs?? I was stimulated by the
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follow-up on him by a brief letter in Bush's files from the attorney who had
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defended DHM in a USAF loyalty hearing in 1950. There was nothing about
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this hearing or Menzel's clearing of any communist learnings in the NY Times
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which piqued my curiosity. I eventually gained access to Menzel's file at
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the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia (only
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contains his very extensive UFO correspondence), the Menzel Files at his
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Alma Mater (University of Denver) and most important after getting
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permission from two professors and his wife Florence, the all important
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Menzel files at Harvard. There was a great deal of evidence strongly
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suggesting that Menzel may indeed have been part of MJ-12. In a 1960
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letter to President elect John F. Kennedy, DHM stated that he had had a
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longer continuous association with the highly classified National Security
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Agency and its Navy predecessor agency than any other person (recent
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documents prove that the NSA has but refuses to release even to a Federal
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court Judge any of the more than 150 UFO documents it admits to having).
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DHM also noted that he had done classified work for more than 30 Defense
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Industry contractors, that he had a TOP SECRET ULTRA security clearance
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which made it all the harder for him to understand the USAF fussing about
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a SECRET clearance. His staunchest defender at the extended security
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hearings was Van Bush whom he had known since 1934!! DHM served the Navy
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on code breaking work during WW2, taught course on cryptography, had
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written a classified book on radio wave propagation, and had also written
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many science fiction stories as well as articles for a number of major
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newspapers. He was very heavily engineering oriented besides being an
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astronomer. Post war he served as the first commanding officer of a Navy
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Reserve cryptography unit.He was very well acquainted with Lloyd Berkner and
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Detlev Bronk. Hunsaker was at nearby MIT.
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At Harvard most of his associates new little about his government work. His
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wartime secretary stressed to me as did some others that he was very
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discreet. He made very frequent trips to Washington DC, and also a myriad to
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New Mexico where the crashed saucer had been retrieved. Menzel was aware of
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the wartime breaking of the German Enigma code and of various disinformation
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schemes to fool the Germans and Japanese and had even learned Japanese to
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help in deciphering. He would have been an obvious choice to help decipher
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the strange symbols found on some of the Roswell wreckage and to help
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disinform the public about this very important subject. His UFO books
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certainly show a great deal of nonscientific reasoning out of keeping with
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his scientific work. His first UFO book was even translated into Russian and
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helped keep a whole generation of US and Soviet scientists from studying the
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UFO phenomenon. He may very well have achieved one of the greatest feats of
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disinformation ever accomplished.
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I have clear proof from the files of both Bush (library of Congress) and
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Forrestal (at the Forrestal Library at Princeton University where I have
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reviewed them) that they had indeed met with President Truman on September
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24, 1947 and they had a long close and mutually admiring relationship with
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each other and with Truman, frequently (in the 1947-49 period) meeting for
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lunch and often meeting with Truman. It is interesting that Hillenkoetter
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and Souers had strong Navy ties, Twining and Bandenberg, strong Air Force
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ties, and Gray and Montague strong Army connections. All were at the top of
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the Intelligence Community. Bronkl besides being an Aviation physiologist
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later headed the National Academy of Sciences. Hunsaker, one of the real
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aviation pioneers headed the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
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succeeding Bush in the late 1930s. Bush was, of course, the US Science and
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Technology Czar during and after World War 2. No one in the world was better
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suited to heading a small group of experts trying to determine the technology
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associated with alien craft. The following statement appears in a formerly
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Top-Secret Canadian memo dated November 21, 1950. Speaking about flying
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saucers Wilber Smith "made discrete enquiries through the Canadian Embassy
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staff in Washington who were able to obtain for me the following information:
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a. The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States
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Government , rating higher even than the H-bomb. b. Flying saucers exist. c.
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Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being mad by a
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small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush. d. The entire matter is considered
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by the United States Authorities to be of tremendous significance."
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There is truly a mountain of evidence including more than 5000 pages of
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documents released under the Freedom of Information and the Canadian Access
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to Information to establish that indeed the subject of UFOs represents a kind
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of Cosmic Watergate. While I don't want all the technical data released , I
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do believe that Earthlings are indeed entitled to know that we are not alone.
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Havening worked on classified government sponsored Research and Development
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programs for 15 years, I have a healthy respect for security and the ability
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of various government agencies to keep things secret.
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