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SUBJECT: MORE ON FRIEDMANS REBUT OF CISCOP FILE: UFO1873
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SPECIAL RELEASE:
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MSF REACTS TO CSICOP
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DEBUNKING OF MJ-12
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ParaNet Alpha 0826 -- The Moore-Shandera-Friedman Research Project
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(MSF) is valiantly battling back against charges that the Majestic-12
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documents, released by the team in April, are fraudulent. The charges were
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raised in a press release issued by CSICOP on August 20th [MJ12.SR], in
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which arch-skeptic Phil Klass called the documents "clumsy counterfeits,"
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and cited a letter from the National Archives [MJ12DOC6.UFO] which raised
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doubts about the authenticity of a key piece of corroborative evidence,
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the so-called Cutler-to-Twining memo of July 14, 1954 [MJ12DOC3.UFO].
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In an attempt to provide the opportunity for MSF to answer the objec-
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tions raised in the press release, ParaNet has talked with all three mem-
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bers of the MSF team: William L. Moore of Burbank, CA, UFO investigator
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and co-author of "The Philadelphia Experiment" and "The Roswell Incident"
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(the latter detailing a UFO crash in 1947 which stands to be confirmed if
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the MJ-12 documents are real); Jaime Shandera of North Hollywood, CA, an
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independent television producer who had little to do with UFOs until team-
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ing up with Moore in 1981; and Stanton T. Friedman of New Brunswick, Cana-
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da, a nuclear physicist and UFO lecturer.
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All three members of the team agreed that nothing brought out by Klass in the release conclusively showed Majestic-12 to be a hoax; i
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n fact none of the members seemed to acknowledge that any damage was done whatsoever.
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Below are some of the objections raised by Klass, and selected ans-
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wers given by the team members.
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o Item: Robert Cutler was in Europe at the time the Cutler-to-Twining Memo
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was allegedly written.
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Friedman: "That's a stupid argument. The memo wasn't signed by
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Cutler. [But] he gave his people instructions to keep the ball
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rolling while he was gone.
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"We have two other memos from Cutler to Twining, which we've
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gotten at the Library of Congress, one is signed and the other
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isn't. The one that's not signed has an `/s/' indicating where the
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original was signed."
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Moore: "The absence of a signature on the document is consistent
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with the fact that Cutler was overseas when it was written. If the
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document had been signed, then we would have reason to worry.
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o Item: The lack of the characteristic "Eagle" watermark found on all of
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Cutler's memoranda stationery.
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Friedman: "But how many? They didn't have at the Eisenhower Library
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OR the National Archives, these two Cutler memoranda that we found
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at the Library of Congress! Absence of evidence is not evidence for
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absence."
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o Item: The lack of a Top-Secret registration number on the document.
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Friedman: "Neither of the other documents we got from the Library of
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Congress had registration numbers, either."
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Moore: "NONE of the Top-Secret Cutler memoranda we have seen have
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registration numbers."
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o Item: The presence of typewriter key impressions through the back of the
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document indicates it was typed as an original, not as a carbon.
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Moore: "This just shows that [Klass] has not done a shred of
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original research. He couldn't have looked at the original. If he
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had, he would have seen that the paper is definitely old, and the
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ink on the paper is blue.
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Friedman: "I have trouble with that. The ink is blue. Who uses blue
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typewriter ribbons?"
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o Item: The use of the security classification "Top Secret - Restricted,"
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which did not come into use by the NSC until at least a decade later.
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Friedman: "Well, that's what these guys are saying, but I don't even
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know that that's true. `Restricted' can mean `nobody else sees.'
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Also, in that same year of '54, the Atomic Energy Act brought in the
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use of `Secret-Restricted Data' when you're dealing with anything
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nuclear...and Twining obviously thought there was a nuclear
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connection with UFOs because in a 1947 memo he said all the data
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should go to the AEC and the Nuclear Energy Propulsion Applications
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Project."
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o Item: The Sept. 24, 1947 letter from Pres. Truman to Secy. Forrestal is
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not consistent in format with other Truman letters to Cabinet members.
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Moore: "Nonsense. We have a letter from a Congressional historian
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that says that the form and style ARE consistent."
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o Item: The Truman letter was created by "superimposing a spurious message
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on a photocopy of an authentic Truman letter."
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Shandera: "The 35mm film we have of the [Truman] document is very
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clear, its a very good photo. If anything like that had been done,
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it would easily show up."
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Moore: "He's dreaming. The evidence is just the opposite. If you
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look at the document on the film, there are some areas where a
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different color ink was probably used, probably red, which contrast
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highly with the rest of the document. If this were a [composite
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photocopy], there wouldn't be this much contrast."
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In the CSICOP press release, and previously in other media, Klass
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has said that he has invited Moore and his associates to "join in his own
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efforts" to get to the bottom of the MJ-12 scenario. Moore claims that
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Klass "has never extended such an invitation to any one of us."
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Moore says that more information on MJ-12 will be released "toward
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the end of September," including a point-by-point response to the
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objections raised by Klass in the release. As usual, ParaNet will be the
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first computer-based media in the world to carry the story as it unfolds.
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