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SUBJECT: ENGLISH/MOORE LETTER, RE: 89 MUFON SYMPOSIUM FILE: UFO1433
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31 AUG. '89
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Bill English
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UFINET
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POBX 0123
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Alamogordo, Nm 88311
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Dear Bill:
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Thank you for sending me a copy of "Pegasus", Aside from the
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material about me on page one, I was most interested in the
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pledges you make in your "policy Statement" which appears on page
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three--especially those you make about using "factual
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information" and "not allow(ing) character assassination."
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I do not know why you seem to harbor so many negative feelings
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about me, or what I may have done to offend you. Whatever it is,
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you certainly seem to be very hot under the collar about it.
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However, I did note in listening to a tape of your Las Vegas
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speech that you made a distinct call for unity and an end to the
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in-fighting in the UFO field. You will recall that I made a
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similar statement in my presentation. On the strength of that,
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added to the fact (as least as I recall it) we once got along
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quite well, I would like once again to propose that we put aside
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past differences and try to work together, I hope you will give
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this your serious consideration.
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Now with respect to the piece on page one of your newsletter, I
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cannot imagine who the (anonymous and obviously second-hand)
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source of you information might be, but I can tell you first hand
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that it is completely erroneous. My interaction with Mr.
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Bennewitz was as stated in my Las Vegas presentation. In
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addition, on a number of different occasions I was accompanied on
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my visits to him by other individuals who, I am sure, would be
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more than happy to verify that fact if necessary. One particular
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occasion, which you can easily check if you wish, occurred in
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1984 when I and one other person were visiting with Paul in his
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office. I had been there about twenty minutes when Tracy Torme,
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Tom Adams and one other individual whose name I do not recall
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walked in. They were quite surprised to seemed; I was quite
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surprised to see them; and Paul seemed quite amused by it all.
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Ask Tracy or Tom about it. I am certain they will recall the
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incident. You might also talk to Gabe Valdez, who knew as early
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as `81 or `82 that Paul and I were acquainted.
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Furthermore you seem to have misinterpreted what I said at Vegas
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about the role I was playing in the Bennewitz affair. Therefore,
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I wish to offer the following three corrections to the material
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printed in your newsletter:
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(1) You state that I "met and knew Paul Bennewitz in the latter
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part of 1979." This is incorrect. Please refer to page 5,
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paragraph 2, and page 6, paragraph 2 of the text of my paper (as
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printed in FOCUS, Vol.IV #4-5-6: 30 JUN. `89) for clarification.
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Page 6, para 2 clearly states. "I first met Paul in early
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1981..." (If you haven't got a copy of the text, let me know and
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I'll be happy to send you one.
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(2) You state that I was instrumental in feeding Bennewitz mis-
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information (sic.)." Not true. Once again, refer to page 6,
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paragraph 2 of my text, which states. "My role in the affair was
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largely that of a freelancer providing information on Paul's
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current thinking and activities. I had nothing whatsoever to do
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with the counterintelligence and the dis-information...."
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(3) You state that I was partly the reason for Paul's
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involuntary committal to the New Mexico State Mental Hospital."
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This is both untrue and erroneous on its face. First of all, if
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Paul was ever involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital
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I am completely unaware of it. My statement (page 8, para. 1,
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bottom) was "Not long afterward I heard that he had been
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hospitalized and was under psychiatric care." The hospital as I
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understood it, was a local facility, not a mental hospital or
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institution, and Paul had not been "committed". He was simply
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under the care of a psychiatrist. Secondly, you will note in the
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same paragraph cited above, I clearly state that I tried to
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counsel Paul to drop his UFO activities before they completely
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destroyed his health. Indeed, I genuinely liked Paul, resented
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what "they" were doing to him, and did everything I could (short
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of blowing my own cover) to get him to realize that he was the
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object of an extensive counterintelligence game. The fact is,
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Paul already knew that. Somehow I think much of his problem came
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from his unflagging belief that if he stayed with it long enough,
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truth as he saw it would somehow triumph over deception.
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As far as my motivations in making the statement I did in Las
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Vegas, I think the time has come to blow the whistle on
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government disinformation about UFOs and provide some much needed
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counterpoint to the Lear-Cooper material. One of the key points
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in that mess, at least to me, was that I was able to establish a
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direct connection between one of Lear's "confidential" sources
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and the very same office in Washington that was responsible for
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directing much of the effort against Bennewitz. That, coupled
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with the fact that much of Lear's material was an embellished
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regurgitation of the same fluff they fed Paul, told me what I
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needed to know about Lear. As for Cooper-- he's highly a
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intelligent individual who is very good at taking in material
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from a variety of sources and embellishing it to suit his
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purposes. In my opinion, he's either a clever opportunist who's
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taking advantage of the Lear situation and the general paranoia
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of the UFO community to try and make himself look more important
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than he really is, or he's a C/I man whose specialty is
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deception. My present thinking is that the former is more likely
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the case simply because his methodology doesn't fit the latter
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type at all. Also, if you take the trouble to compare his
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earlier pronouncements with those he is making currently, you
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will discover a host of inconsistencies; which, at the very
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least, calls his ultimate credibility into serious question.
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Government disinformation about UFOs has been going on for a long
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time. My goal is to try to stop it by exposing it to the public,
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and at the same time, uncover what is behind it. What I did in
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Las Vegas began the first part of this process. There will be
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more to come. The next issue of FOCUS (circulation now about 500
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and growing fast) will carry more.
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In any case, congratulations and best wishes on "Pegasus" and
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your UFINET project. I hope you will print this letter in an
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upcoming issue in order to correct the mistakes cited above. I
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also sincerely hope you will take another look at the animosity
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you seem to harbor against me, and see if there isn't some way we
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can cooperate. After all, we both do have a common purpose,
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please let me hear from you in the near future.
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cordially.
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