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SUBJECT: E B E's FILE: UFO1030
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PART 11
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In 1989 Moore said that "in early 1983 I became aware that Rick
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[Doty] was involved with a team of several others, including one
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fellow from Denver that I knew of and at least one who was
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working out of Washington, D.C., in playing an elaborate
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disinformation scheme against a prominent UfO researcher who, at
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the time, had close connections with a major television film
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company interested in doing a UFO documentary." He was referring
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to Howe, of course. The episode was a counterintelligence sting
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operation, part of the "wall of disinformation" intended to
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"confuse" the Bennewitz issue and to "call his credibility into
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question." Because of Howe's interest in Bennewitz's work,
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according to Moore, "certain elements within the intelligence
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community were concerned that the story of his having intercepted
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low frequency electromagnetic emissions from the Coyote Canyon
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area of the Kirtland/Sandia complex would end up as part of a
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feature film. Since this in turn might influence others (possibly
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even the Russians) to attempt similar experiments, someone in a
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control position apparently felt it had to be stopped before it
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got out of hand." In his observation, Moore said, "the government
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seemed hell bent on severing the ties that existed between [Howe]
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and [HBO]" (Moore, 1989b).
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Doty's assertion that Howe had misrepresented their meeting was
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not to be taken seriously, according to Moore, since Doty was
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bound by a security oath and could not discuss the matter freely
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Moore said that the Aztec crash, known beyond reasonable doubt
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never to have occurred, was something Doty had added to the
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document after learning from Moore of his recent investigation of
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the hoax.
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In December 1984, in the midst of continuing contact with their
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own sources (Doty and a number of others) who claimed to be
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leaking the secret of the cover-up, Moore's associate Jaime
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Shandera received a roll of 35mm film containing, it turned out
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what purported to be a briefing paper dated November 18, 1952,
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and intended for president-elect Eisenhower. The purported
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author, Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, reported that an "Operation
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Majestic-12," consisting of a dozen top scientists, military
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officers and intelligence specialists, had been set up by
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presidential order on September 24, 1947, to study the Roswell
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remains and the four humanoid bodies that had been recovered
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nearby. The document report that the team directed by MJ12 member
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and physiologist Detlev Bronk "has suggested the term 'Extra-
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terrestrial Biological Entities', or 'EBEs', be adopted as the
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standard term of reference for these creatures until such time as
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a more definitive designation can be agreed upon." Brief mention
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is also made of a December 6, 1950, crash along the Texas-Mexico
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border. Nothing is said, however, about live aliens or
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communications with them.
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In July 1985 Moore and Shandera, acting on tips from their
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sources, traveled to Washington and spent a few days going
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through recently declassified documents in Record Group 341,
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including Top Secret Air Force intelligence files from USAF
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Headquarters. In the 126th box whose contents they examined, they
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found a brief memo dated July 14, 1954, from Robert Cutler,
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Special Assistant to the President, to Gen. Nathan Twining. It
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says "The president has decided that the MJ-12/SSP [Special
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Studies Project] briefing should take place during the already
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scheduled White House meeting of July 16 rather than following it
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as previously intended. More precise arrangements will be
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explained to you upon your arrival. Your concurrence in the above
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change of arrangements is assumed" (Friedman, 1987).
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The Cutler/Twining memo, as it would be called in the
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controversies that erupted after Moore released the MJ-12
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document to the world in the spring of 1987, is the only official
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document-not to be confused with such disputed ones as the
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November 17, 1980, Aquarius document-to mention MJ-12. (Several
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critics of the MJ-12 affair have questioned the memo's
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authenticity as well, but so far without unambiguous success.)
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The memo does not, of course, say what the MJ12 Special Studies
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Project was.
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MJ-12 Goes Public: Just prior to Moore's release of the MJ-12
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briefing paper, another copy was leaked to British ufologist
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Timothy Good, who took his copy to the press. The first newspaper
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article on it appeared in the London Observer of May 31, 1987,
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and soon it was the subject of pieces in the New York Times,
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Washington Post and ABC-TV's Nightline. It was also denounced,
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not altogether persuasively, both by professional debunkers and
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by many ufologists. The dispute would rage without resolution
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well into 1989, when critics discovered that President Truman's
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signature on the September 24, 1947, executive order (appended to
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the briefing paper) was exactly like his signature on an
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undisputed, UFO-unrelated October 1, 1947, letter to his science
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adviser (and supposed MJ-12 member) Vannevar Bush. To all
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appearances a forger had appended a real signature to a fake
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letter. The MJ-12 document began to look like another
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disinformation scheme.
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Although acutely aware of the mass of disinformation circulating
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throughout the UFO community, Moore remained convinced that at
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least some of the information his own sources were giving him was
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authentic. In 1988 he provided two of his sources, "Falcon" (Sgt.
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Doty according to some) and "Condor" (later claimed to be former
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U.S. Air Force Capt. Robert Collins), to a television production
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company. (Moore and Shandera had given them avian names and
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called the sources collectively "the birds.") UFO Cover-up . . .
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Live, a two-hour program, aired in October 1988, with Falcon and
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Condor, their faces shaded, their voices altered, relating the
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same tales with which they had regaled Moore and Shandera. The
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show, almost universally judged a laughable embarrassment, was
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most remembered for the informants' statements that the aliens
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favored ancient Tibetan music and strawberry ice cream. Critics
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found the latter allegation especially hilarious.
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end of part 11
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