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From usc!ginosko!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca!tolkien.WV.TEK.COM!keithr Mon Sep 11 14:31:40 PDT 198
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US Government UFO cover-up? You betcha!!
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The following is my typescript of an information sheet issued by Stanton
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Friedman, one of the top ten UFO researchers in the US (and Canada).
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He has done extensive research on the MJ-12 Eisenhower
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presidential briefing document and the background of the people
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named in the document. He is also the principal researcher of the
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Roswell saucer crash along with Bill Moore.
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For those of you who want a science fiction/fantasy conspiracy
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that's true, try the saucer stuff. For those few of you inclined to do
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a little original research, just call up Friedman himself. But do
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yourself a favor first and get a little background. See the "Partial
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UFO Bibliography" at the end of this posting for a start on your UFO
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education. Start with the starred (**) books first.
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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 E3B 2V1
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CANADA
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(506) 457-0232
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The US Government Coverup of UFO Information Dec. 18, 1988,
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Stanton T. Friedman
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There is simply no way any rational person can deny that the
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US Government has been officially withholding data about UFOs for
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many years. The facts speak for themselves to anyone willing to
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listen. There are many trails leading to exactly the same conclusion.
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One, of many, deals with the role of the National Security Agency
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(NSA).
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About a decade ago a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by
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Citizens Against UFO Secrecy to the CIA elicited the response that
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the CIA had no information about UFOs. An appeal was denied, but a
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court action forced the CIA to do a document search. Eventually they
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released more than 900 pages of mildly interesting UFO information
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(nothing classified above SECRET) and containing internal references
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to many other unreleased UFO documents. Perhaps of greater
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importance than what was released, was a list of 57 unreleasable
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UFO documents in the CIA files, but originating with many other
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intelligence agencies. Of greatest interest were the 18 UFO
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documents originating with the NSA.
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An FOI request to the NSA for their 18 UFO documents was
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completely rejected on grounds of national security. An appeal was
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denied and a Federal Court action followed. The NSA kept citing the
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need to protect "sources and methods" data protected by law and
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CAUS kept responding that it was only interested in the UFO portions
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of the documents. The judge requested a search and was eventually
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notified by the NSA lawyer that the NSA had found 239 UFO
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documents (not just the 18 referenced by the CIA). However, 79 of
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these 239 Classified UFO documents originated with other agencies
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including 23 UFO documents from the CIA. However, the NSA refused
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to release 156 of their own 160 UFO documents and also refused to
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provide them to the federal judge [Gearhart Gesell] for his review to
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determine if national security was being correctly invoked. Instead
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the NSA provided him (not the CAUS attorney) a TOP SECRET +++++
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21 page affidavit *in camera* justifying withholding the NSA UFO
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documents. Judge Gesell (and a subsequent 3 judge Federal Court of
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Appeals Tribunal) was so impressed with the affidavit, that it was
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cited in his ruling rejecting the CAUS suit. A copy of the affidavit
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was eventually obtained under FOI, but is more than 75% expurgated.
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I filed an FOI request for the 23 CIA UFO documents noted by
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the NSA. After 35 months they released 9 (all abstracts of Eastern
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European newspaper articles about UFOs!!) but refused to release
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their own 14 UFO documents. I have appealed and will probably hear
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by 1991.
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Since the primary role of the NSA is supposed to be
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interception of foreign military communications (with an annual
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"black" budget of about $10 billion) by worldwide listening posts, it
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certainly seems clear that the intercepts (all predating 1980) are of
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military communication about probably significant foreign military
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UFO sightings, encounters, etc. For example, a former NSA employee
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described to me the monitoring of a daylight encounter between two
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Cuban Air Force MIG-21 interceptors and a UFO resulting in the
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destruction of the lead plane which intended to shoot down the
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intruding UFO.
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I have, of course, frequently challenged Philip J. Klass, who
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maintains there cannot be any government secrecy about UFOs, to
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provide copies of any of the 156 TOP SECRET +++ NSA UFO
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documents, or a much less expurgated version of the affidavit. In 5
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years despite his constant claim of no coverup, he has provided none
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of the 156 documents or a cleaner affidavit.
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There are many other instances of US government agencies
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withholding UFO documents even though approximately 6000 pages
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have been received from a host of agencies. The USAF Office of
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Special Investigations (OSI) has even gone so far as to instruct its
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many units NOT to follow official regulations when they respond to a
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UFO FOI request from me. No rational person can claim there is no
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official US government coverup of UFO data. To suggest, as Klass
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has repeatedly, that because Nixon could not coverup Watergate (a
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political problem) the US government could not maintain secrecy
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about as vital a national security problem as the intrusion of US
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airspace by advanced alien spacecraft at least one of which has
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crashed and been recovered by the US government [the July 1947
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Roswell, NM incident], is absurd. I am also intrigued by the fact that
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the FBI refuses to release to me my SECRET file or even tell me how
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many pages are in it or the time period covered, though Bill Moore
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[author of The Roswell Incident] was shown censored portions of 5
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of his 61 pages!
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Partial UFO Bibliography
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**Berlitz, Charles and William L. Moore. The Roswell Incident. New
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York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. 168pp. ISBN 0-448-21199-8.
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**Butler, Brenda, Dot Street, and Jenny Randles. Sky Crash: A
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Cosmic Conspiracy. Sudbury, Great Britain: Neville Spearman, 1984.
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283pp. ISBN 85435-155-8.
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Condon, Edward U. and Daniel S. Gillmor (ed.). Final Report of the
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Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Conducted by the
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University of Colorado Under Contract to the United States Air
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Force). New York: Bantam Books, 1968. 965pp.
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Davidson, Leon. Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Blue
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Book Special Report No. 14 Including The C.I.A. and the Saucers.
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White Plains, New York: Privately printed by Leon Davidson, 1976.
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84pp.
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Eberhart, George M. UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement:
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a bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986. 1298pp. ISBN
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0-8108-1919-8.
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Evans, Hilary and John Spencer (eds.). UFOs: 1947-1987 -- The 40-
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Year Search for an Explanation. London: Fortean Tomes, 1987. 384pp.
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ISBN 1-870021-02-9.
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**Fawcett, Lawrence and Barry J. Greenwood. Clear Intent: The
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Government Coverup of the UFO Experience. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
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Prentice-Hall, 1984. 259pp. ISBN 0-13-136656-4.
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Fuller, John G. Aliens in the Skies: The Scientific Rebuttal to the
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Condon Committee Report. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1969. 219pp.
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**Good, Timothy. Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up.
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New York: William Morrow, 1988. 592pp. ISBN 0-688-07860-5.
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Hendry, Allan. The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating,
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Evaluating, and Reporting UFO Sightings. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
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(Dolphin), 1979. 297pp. ISBN 0-385-14348-6.
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**Jacobs, David Michael. The UFO Controversy in America.
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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975. 362pp. ISBN 0-
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253-19006-1.
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Keyhoe, Donald E. The Flying Saucer Conspiracy. New York: Henry
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Holt, 1955. 315pp. ISBN LC 55-7918.
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Lorenzen, Coral and Jim Lorenzen. Encounters with UFO Occupants.
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New York: Berkley, 1976. 424pp. ISBN 425-03093-8.
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Randles, Jenny and Peter Warrington. Science and the UFOs. Oxford,
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U.K.: Basil Blackwell, 1985. 215pp. ISBN 0-631-13563-4.
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**Randles, Jenny. The UFO Conspiracy: The First Forty Years. New
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York: Blanford Press, 1987. 224pp. ISBN 0-7137-1972-9.
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Sagan, Carl and Thorton Page, eds. UFO's -- A Scientific Debate. New
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York: Norton, 1972. 310pp. ISBN 0-393-00739-1.
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**Saunders, David R. and R. Roger Harkins. UFOs? Yes! Where the
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Condon Committee Went Wrong. New York: New American Library
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(Signet), 1968. 256pp. ISBN LC 68-59202.
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Story, Ronald D. UFOs and the Limits of Science. New York: William
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Morrow, 1981. 290pp. ISBN 0-688-00144-0.
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Story, Ronald, ed. The Encyclopedia of UFOs. Garden City, NY:
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Doubleday (Dolphin Books), 1980. 440pp. ISBN 0-385-11681-0.
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Strentz, Herbert J. A Survey of Press Coverage of Unidentified
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Flying Objects, 1947 - 1966. Evanston, IL: Arcturus Book Service,
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1982. 341pp.
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Stringfield, Leonard H. Situation Red: The UFO Siege!. New York:
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Fawcett-Crest Books, 1977. 254pp. ISBN 0-449-23654-4.
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Vallee, Jacques and Janine Vallee. Challenge to Science: The UFO
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Enigma. New York: Ace Books, 1966. 256pp. ISBN .
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Vallee, Jacques. Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in
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Space -- A Scientific Appraisal. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974.
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227pp. ISBN 345-24287-4-150.
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-Keith Rowell, Tektronix, Wilsonville, OR keithr@orca.WV.TEK.COM
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