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SUBJECT: SPEISER ON COOPER/LEAR FILE: UFO2155
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LEAR AND COOPER: AN EXPLANATION
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(But Not an Apology)
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Jim Speiser
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10/26/88
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Ordinarily, I don't feel I have to explain my actions regarding this
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board or this network. I think I've developed a pretty good reputa-
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tion for reliability and fairness. I certainly owe nothing in the
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way of an explanation to Messrs. Cooper and Lear. However, I can see
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where some confusion may have arisen regarding my actions, especial-
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ly on the part of Don Ecker, whom I have a great deal of respect
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for, and on the part of other users who have discreetly inquired as
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to my reasons.
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These things always seem to come best in the form of chronologies,
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and so, a brief chronology follows.
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Bill Cooper first contacted this board with a story of a sighting he
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had on board a submarine in 1966. The story (TIRU-1.UFO) was forward-
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ed to Vickie Cooper for inclusion in a possible story in UFO Maga-
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zine. It was also sent to Stan Friedman for verification. This was
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back in August.
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I learned from Vickie Cooper that Bill (no relation) had had a con-
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versation with her in which the Majestic-12 documents had come up.
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When she mentioned the "proword" "MAJIC", he claimed to have seen
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that word on several documents back in his days with CINCPACFLT
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(Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet). About a week later, I received
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the first of many files from Cooper, in which he implied that he had
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firsthand contact with or knowledge of individuals connected with MJ-
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12. (see GUIDANCE.DOC). He further implied that anyone possessing
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this knowledge was in great danger. I forwarded this file to both
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Stanton Friedman and Jamie Shandera, to see whether any of the in-
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formation in it checked out. I later found out that it did not.
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In the meantime, Cooper took a more active role in the public mes-
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sage base. He claimed publicly that he had lost his $75,000/year job
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as a marketing director, two days after having spoken with Stan
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Friedman. He stated that he would not be providing any more info for
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this reason. In the meantime, several more documents written by
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Cooper filtered through the ParaNet system, by way of our Ft. Smith
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board. They were uploaded anonymously, but were written by Cooper.
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They each contained the same preamble, which claimed that the info
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was for myself and for Stanton Friedman only, and that we were in
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great danger for possessing the info contained therein. (DANGER.DOC,
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MUGGER.DOC, PICNIC2.DOC).
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At around this time, a user named Jeff Felix began using the board,
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and asked via chat for a private meeting between him and myself. We
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set up a meet at the Jerry's on Scottsdale Road in Tempe (the same
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one at which the Phoenix Skeptics hold their monthly meetings.) At
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this meeting, Felix, who is all of about 24, told a bizarre tale of
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having been an NSA cryptology technician, of having been "fooling
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around" on the NSA computer, trying to come up with an encryption
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program, and had "stumbled across" the Majestic file, the Aquarius
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file, the whole ball of wax. "Its all true," he told us, "the under-
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ground bases, the aliens, the crashed saucers, etc." He claimed that
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with a modified modem, he could get back in to the files. Naturally,
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I was extremely skeptical, and a few days later when I asked Felix a
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few questions on the phone, testing his knowledge of the most basic
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intelligence terminology, I became flat-out incredulous when he
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failed the test. What was even more revealing was that Bill Cooper
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had provided me with some of the questions I asked Felix, and I have
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a captured chat session with Cooper in which he expressed his doubts
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of Felix's veracity.
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In my last online chat with Felix, he mentioned something called
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Project X-calibur (his spelling). He said he had discussed it with
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Cooper on the phone before he had called me. Cooper later told me
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that no, Felix had not mentioned it. He told me he had heard of it,
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but that it was VERY Top Secret, above his level. He said he didn't
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know anything more about it.
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Much to my surprise, Cooper later called to tell me that Project
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Excalibur is real, that his sources told him it was a project by MJ-
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12 to extract technology from the aliens. He told me that it was
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important I get in touch with Felix, that if "the kid knows about
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[Excalibur], he's for real." Felix, in the meantime, would give me
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no information about Excalibur, except that a friend of his who had
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done the same thing he had (broken into the NSA's Cray-3 computer,
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the most advanced and secure supercomputer in the world), had "stum-
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bled across" the Excalibur file.
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My thinking on Cooper and Felix at this time began to center on the
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thought that the two of them were scamming me behind my back, and I
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had visions of having ParaNet become a home for unwed paranoids.
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When John LEar returned from his long absence, and began to join
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with Cooper in a series of mutual admiration sessions, I saw things
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getting out of control.
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I knew by now that Cooper was either engaging in fantasy role-play-
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ing, or something more sinister. The word "disinformation" has been
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bandied about quite freely during this entire MJ-12 mess. Now,
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please consider: Cooper's credentials as a Naval NCO with a back-
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ground in intelligence seem to check out. His information is self-
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contradicting and paranoid, and does NOT check out, at least with
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the several intelligence sources I have contacted. After the UFO
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COVER-UP broadcast, Cooper sent ANOTHER file by way of ParaNet RHO
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in BOISE, called his 10-15-88 Position Paper. In it he completely
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contradicts his entire previous thesis, and claims that the MJ-12
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scenario as painted by Moore's group (and implicitly, by himself) is
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a hoax. Further, he claims to be in full agreement with John Lear
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(which agreement seems to be mutual, based on Lear's support of
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Cooper). Now I ask you, if agents of disinformation are at work to
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discredit the field of Ufology, who is the more likely suspect?
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Moore/Shandera/Friedman, who claimed from the beginning to have
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videotapes of bona fide government agents, and produced them for
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live TV, or Cooper/Lear, who seemingly plagiarized the Moore docu-
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ments, gave them a slightly different spin, then turned around and
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contradicted themselves the moment it became public knowledge, and
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can't even seem to agree with each other, yet support each other
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publicly? My locking out of Cooper was actually on the advice of
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Cooper himself, who accused William Pitts and the New Project Blue
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Book of being a military intelligence cover operation, and ParaNet
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of being an unwitting disinformation pipeline. To avoid becoming
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such a pipeline, which I'm sure no one here wants, I simply got rid
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of the most likely suspect.
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As to Lear, I don't think any self-respecting Sysop would stand for
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being accused of borderline treason on his public board, especially
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from a man who proudly displays in his office enlarged telephoto-
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graphs of the installation at Groom Lake, the country's most secret
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tactical aircraft development area, obtained by himself after at-
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tempting to enter the area illegally. His unqualified support for
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Cooper, which seems to be based solely on Cooper's unqualified
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support for him, I found distasteful and somehow disturbing, in
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light of the fact that Cooper has contradicted Lear's information.
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And consider: John Lear entered Ufology in early 1987, when it be-
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came known to a few that Moore was going to release MJ-12. Lear is
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known to have been a CIA operative in the past. He wears his patriot-
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ism on his office walls, in the form of autographed pictures of him-
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self standing with G. Gordon Liddy. Again, if disinformation is
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taking place, I ask you, who is the more likely source?
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And is it working? Well, consider. What if Moore/Shandera/Friedman
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DO have the real goods? If so, isn't it a shame that so many
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intelligent people, people such as Don Ecker, watched UFO COVER-UP
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LIVE, and instead of asking if MSF were for real, began asking if
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Lear and Cooper were for real? This, despite the obvious contra-
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dictions and obfuscations listed below:
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"The documents you are looking for are for the most part labeled TOP
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SECRET MAJIC-RESTRICTED DATA" -- Bill Cooper, 22 August
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"EVERY DOCUMENT YOU SEE WHICH USES...`MAJIC' IS A FRAUD!" -- Bill
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Cooper, 15 October
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"The documents produced by Mr. Moore et al are photographic copies
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of genuine documents which were procured at great risk." -- Bill
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Cooper, 22 August
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"I CAN PROVE BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT TO ANYONE THAT MOST OF THE
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INFORMATION RELEASED BY WILLIAM MOORE, ET AL...ARE OBVIOUS AND
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DELIBERATE FORGERIES." -- Bill Cooper, 15 October
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"Hmmm...let me think on that one for a while." -- Bill Cooper, when
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I told him that the Aquarius Telex contained a compartmentalized
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routing code at the top that indicated to anyone trained in military
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communications/intelligence that the document was either fraudulent
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or to be ignored for some reason. Phone conversation, 11 October
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"The code is ZNY." -- Bill Cooper, phone conversation, 12 October.
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"I got it, Jim, I just remembered after I hung up with you, its NOT
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ZNY, that means something else, but its _________" (my deletion). --
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Bill Cooper, phone conversation, 12 October
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"There is a code at the head of the AQUARIUS TELEX that tells me
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that the information contained within it is not to be acted upon nor
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in any way believed...________ on the telex net informs all stations
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that the message CANNOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY...The code is really a
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type of slang/graffiti that was used by a lot of enlisted men, and
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sometimes by officers. I had a lot of fun with a couple of
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Ufologists on that one. THEY STILL BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE TESTING
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ME." -- Bill Cooper, 15 October
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Emphasis and deletions above are in the originals except where
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indicated.
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