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SUBJECT: WHO'S DISINFORMING WHOM ? FILE: UFO2537
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PART 4
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T H E F A I R - W I T N E S S P R O J E C T O F L. A.
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FOUNDED 1984: RESEARCH, PUBLISHING & MEDIA CONSULTING SERVICES
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SPECIALIZING IN INFORMATION ABOUT UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA
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4219 W. OLIVE AVE., SUITE #247, BURBANK, CALIFORNIA 91505
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August 10th 1993
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***AN OPEN LETTER***
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Bruce Maccabee
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6962 Eylers Valley Flint Rd.
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Sabillasville, MD 21780
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Dear Bruce:
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Thanks for the note and accompanying material. Yes, I have a copy of the "AIR"
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Report. They sent me one, believe it or not (post-marked, by the way, "Suburban
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MD MSC 206," which translates to somewhere in Prince George's County).
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Apparently I'm the only principal to have received one directly from the
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source. Interesting.
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There is no doubt that Todd Zechel figures heavily in this thing, although he
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apparently chooses to deny having actually written it. His words reportedly
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were, "I didn't write it, but of course I can't be responsible for what others
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may do with information I provide them." Certainly we are dealing with some
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sort of vendetta group here, and if I had to guess at the membership aside from
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Zechel himself, I would finger an unholy alliance of the usual Zechel gadflys
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with perhaps a couple of naive newcomers. Anyone who's been around the UFO
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community for any lenqth of time knows the type of people he prefers to
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associate with. Naming them would only give them more notoriety than they
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deserve. Stylistically speaking, the writing resembles that of Zechel more than
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anyone else.
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As for the accuracy of the piece at least insofar as the material about me is
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concerned what few things the writer does have right are taken so badly out of
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context or so heavily embellished with outright fabrication, invective and
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innuendo that it's hardly worth my time to comment. Certainly I have never
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claimed (or "confessed" to be "a government disinformation agent." (A tran-
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script of my 1989 Las Vegas speech is available from me in case anyone wants to
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read my exact words.) Certainly I did not "create" the MJ-12 papers! As far
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as I know, Rick Doty never attempted to make "big money" or in fact any money
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at all "by concocting phoney UFO stories." And if money and greed are my
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motives, why am I always on the edge of poverty? (Anyone who thinks money is
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my God simply doesn't know me very well.)
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In addition, the writer confuses the matter of the so-called Carter Briefing
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Documents (the ones I photographed in a motel room) with the Eisenhower
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Briefing Document. This is all set out in 'The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical
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Report' which the writer gives no indication of having read.
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Equally confused is the account of Rick Doty's involvement with the Kirtland
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documents, a matter which is also set forth in detail in my above referenced
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'MJ-12 Report'. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, Doty has never
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offered to sell either information or documents on UFOs to anyone. Indeed,
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during the thirteen years I have known him, Rick has never expressed any
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interest in receiving money for anything, and on the couple of occasions when
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money was offered (just to see what the reaction would be) it was quickly
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declined with a wave of the hand. Nor, for my part, did I ever accept any
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money for my own involvement.
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I do not know whether Rick Doty ever slept with Linda Howe or not, and frankly
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I do not care! I do know that I have never discussed any such allegation with
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Ms. Howe. Furthermore, the HOT-AIR Report's assertion that "up to this point,
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Howe had never in her life spoken with Moore" is untrue. I first met and had a
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fairly long conversation with Linda in mid-1980, six months before my
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involvement with the Bennewitz affair and several years before the time frame
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outlined in the so-called Report!
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There's a lot of other stuff as well, but why bother? To have me bragging to
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Zechel, in early 1980 (!), about making lots of money off UFOs, is ridiculous.
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Hell's bells-- the sum total of my contribution to ufology at that point was
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perhaps half-a-dozen pulp magazine articles. Yes, I had made some money off the
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Phil/Ex book, but that wasn't really a UFO book. Strangely enough, that meeting
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marked the only time I have ever met Zechel face-to-face, and Maccabee was
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present. I knew something of Zechel's curious reputation even at that early
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date, and as a result I said damn little about anything at that meeting. (It
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seems to me that he was living in a flea-bag hotel and working as a clerk at Le
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Sexe Shoppe, a sleazy Hollywood porn palace, at the time.) I wonder if his
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flawless memory can recall where we met and what the circumstances were. I can.
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In summary, I view the HOT-AIR Report as nothing more than the product of
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seriously twisted minds who have banded together out of sheer desperation in
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order to attempt one last hurrah. The reason Zechel is a nobody today has
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nothing to do with me or anything I might have done. The cess pool he wallows
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in is entirely the product of his own profligacy. How sad that people who have
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descended to such depths so frequently believe that the only way they can make
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themselves look good is to make others look bad. Even the Nazis used the
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technique, although it is now widely accepted that heavy use of amphetamines
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was responsible for at least some of Hitler's erratic behavior. I wonder what
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drugs Mr. Zechel is doing nowadays???
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In any case, HOT-AIR is clearly nothing more than a hatchet job effort by
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individuals inimical to Maccabee and myself. Ufology has always been hesitant
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to give credence to anonymous sources. Why should these cowards be treated any
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differently?
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[ handwritten note indicating
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this is from Bill Moore but
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not signed ]
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-!-
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