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SUBJECT: WHO'S DISINFORMING WHOM ? FILE: UFO2538
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PART 5
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This file is provided by UFO Magazine. All rights are
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reserved. You may distribute this file freely as long as this
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header remains intact.
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Date prepared: September 7, 1993
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Contributed by: Don Ecker/ UFO Magazine
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Intelligence and UFO Research
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by Don Ecker/Director of Research
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*UFO Magazine Vol. 8 No. 5 -- All rights reserved.
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During the third week of July, 1993 *UFO Magazine received a
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written report from an organization calling itself the
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"ASSOCIATED INVESTIGATORS GROUP". There was no return address on
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the envelope, and the members listed on the back were all
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pseudonyms. Some of the pseudonyms were fairly easy to figure
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out, some were not. However the report itself was extremely
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inflammatory. The first paragraph read; "One of the nation's
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leading sponsors of UFO research and investigation, the Fund for
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UFO Research, has had a long-standing secret relationship with
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the CIA and the U.S. Intelligence community. Dr. Bruce Maccabee,
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an optics and laser specialist with the Naval Surface Weapons
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Laboratory near Washington, DC, one of the Fund's founders and
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member of the group's Executive Committee, has been secretly
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meeting with CIA officials since 1979, briefing them about
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various UFO matters and investigators."
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*UFO Magazine immediately called the Fund for UFO Research
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Chairman Richard Hall to get the Funds stance on these
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allegations. Hall right off stated that he had just spoken with
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Todd Zechel, one of the primary accuser's alleging CIA
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connections with the Fund and Dr. Maccabee. Zechel denied being
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the sole author of the document, but according to Richard Hall,
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refused to name the other authors.
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Hall stated when asked that the Fund was aware of contacts that
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Maccabee had within Central Intelligence, but had not been aware
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of any extensive relationships. When asked by Hall if he felt
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there may be other "moles" in the Fund for UFO Research he stated
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"No I don't and I have to say that I think this has a potential
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to be over blown. All we are dealing with here are some fairly
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major indiscretions by Bruce Maccabee." When asked if Hall
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thought Maccabee would have reported back to the Agency on
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persons in the field he said "I have no way of knowing, is the
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honest answer, but I sort of doubt it because my reading of his
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personality and character". "In 1979 Bruce went to New Zealand
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for, I think it was NICAP, it wasn't for the Fund, and when he
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came back he told us that he had briefed some people at CIA on
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the case. As the years went by Bruce said he had talked to CIA
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people and had contacts over there. When it became obvious that
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they were ongoing things several members of the board met with
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Bruce and told him this wasn't right, we can't have you going
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over there and talking privately with those people. We are
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dedicated to the position of getting information out on this
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subject and this will look bad, you can't do it. We told him this
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could backfire on the Fund, we had no idea of how deeply involved
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he was."
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According to the document from the ASSOCIATED INVESTIGATORS
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report, and from Richard Hall, the point man at CIA that Maccabee
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knew was Roland "Ron" Pandolfi, Directorate of Science and
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Technology. Hall stated that "making some inquiries of my own, he
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(Pandolfi) is notorious for dealing with a whole bunch of people
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in the field. He is probably dealing disinformation in the
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field."
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Hall then stated for the record that because of many of
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Maccabee's favorable statements about the Gulf Breeze case, the
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Fund was unable to do any balanced presentation of negative
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information about the case because the Fund had asked several
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people to report on it and they refused because of reservations
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about Maccabee.
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Maccabee recently vacated the Chairmanship of the Fund for UFO
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Research when Richard Hall took over. Maccabee is still a member
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on the Board.
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Todd Zechel was next contacted. When asked what initiated the
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release of the ASSOCIATED INVESTIGATORS REPORT, Zechel said the
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report was done because Maccabee was found to have briefed CIA in
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Langley on May 28th, 1993. The briefing was, according to Zechel
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on "residual magnetic effects found in the Gulf Breeze incident."
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Zechel stated "I knew Bruce quite well in the seventies. I got
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started in the field in 1976 and I always respected and admired
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him because he seemed to be a very responsible scientist. He was
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very cautious and not making outrageous pronouncements." "One of
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the concerns we had with all this is was that Maccabee felt more
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loyalty to the CIA than he did to his friends at the Fund."
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Zechel was then asked why the names listed on the report were all
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pseudonyms and not the actual persons involved. He said "The
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basic reason is stated in the last page of the report. There are
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several confidential investigation going on, and when they are
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completed the people will then be identified." Zechel then said
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that "I may as well put my name on it since I will be blamed for
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it anyway."
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"One of the inferences that you can draw from the situation is
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that before 1979 was quite cautious, seemingly afraid that he
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might loose his government classified research job, and after
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1979 when he began meeting with the CIA he seemed to abandon all
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those cautions, and got involved with a lot of things that
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seemingly going up against the government. Being one of the lead
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sponsors of the MJ-12 investigation. If MJ-12 was legitimate,
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which I don't believe it was, then Maccabee was certainly taking
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a number of risks with his security clearance. The fact that
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nothing happened to him obviously indicates that no one was
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displeased with what he was doing."
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One of the main points Zechel presented concerned the aftermath
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of Maccabee's New Zealand trip, and his briefing at CIA. Maccabee
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told Zechel on the record that he had met the CIA's custodian of
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the UFO files. Zechel states he has Maccabee telling him on audio
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tape that this unnamed CIA officer had told him (Maccabee) that
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the Agency had over 15,000 UFO documents. Zechel had brought this
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point up twice as he told *UFO "This was a critical point because
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we were in the middle of litigation with the CIA and we were
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trying to prove the CIA had lied to the court, and lied about
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their search (for records). Obviously this was a major crime if
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they have filed all sorts of affidavits to the U.S. District
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Court swearing that their total files consisted on only about
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1,000 documents."
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The contact at CIA that Maccabee had that purportedly told him
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about the 15,000 documents was Dr. Christopher C. "Kit" Green.
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Green is now reportedly chief of Biomedical Sciences Dept. at
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General Motors. His replacement at CIA is now Roland "Ron"
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Pandolfi in the Directorate of Science & Technology.
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Later Zechel said that while speaking to Maccabee he asked him if
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he were working for the CIA. According to Zechel Maccabee stated
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"You might say that." Zechel said that with Maccabee's background
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he was recruited by the CIA to work on classified national
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defense work involving "Star Wars". This in would fit into normal
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governmental contract work given Maccabee's background in optical
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physics and his expertise.
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Zechel was asked about the allegation in the AIG report that
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Maccabee was identified as a member of the infamous "Aviary" (Sea
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Gull) of UFO researcher William Moore. When asked how this was
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verified Zechel stated "It was verified through him (Maccabee) to
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me within the last month. (July 1993) He talked about receiving a
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form message from Bill (Moore) in which Moore had sent a memo out
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to the Aviary that U.K. researcher Armen Victorian was doing an
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investigation on the "birds", and the memo stated to not worry
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about it, no one was worried about being exposed. Maccabee told
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me that it was funny that Moore said no one was afraid of being
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exposed, no one asked him, and he was afraid of being exposed!"
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*UFO then called Dr. Maccabee. Maccabee was told that *UFO had
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called Richard Hall at the Fund, and that Hall had verified that
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the Fund was aware of his involvement with the CIA since 1979,
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and that Hall had told Maccabee that they were afraid that if
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this was publicly known it could reflect back on the Fund.
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Maccabee stated that "I have a professional relationship in the
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sense of what I do, and in particular I was working on lasers,
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and I became of interest to them in 1984. This UFO stuff came up
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as topics of mutual interest. This paper (AIG) misrepresents
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things and that is one of many things." Maccabee was asked if he
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did contact CIA in 1979. Maccabee stated he did brief CIA on his
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New Zealand investigation. However Maccabee stated that the
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report was wrong about him contacting CIA. "Coming back from New
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Zealand, I had looked for help in my analysis, or for people to
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review what I had done in terms of the radar aspects of the New
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Zealand case. I had told Jack Acuff of NICAP I would be
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interested in technical experts in radar. I learned from Jack
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there was a scientist with major credentials with a corporation.
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He had become aware of NICAP because of sonic booms, like sky
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quakes, which were taking place at the time (in the late
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seventies, after the Concord starting flying.) People were
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phoning in reports about these booms, and were seeing lights in
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the sky. The scientific community got interested, and the guy I
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ended up talking to, Gordon MacDonald, decided to do an
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investigation with the Naval Research Laboratory, and they found
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to their dismay that most of the information that is available is
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in the files of UFO groups. So they contacted NICAP among others
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for information, so that is how MacDonald got in touch with NICAP
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and Jack Acuff. When the New Zealand case came along, I was given
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this guy MacDonald. I met with him and he agreed with some of my
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conclusions and offered a couple of suggestions. About a week or
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so later, he called and asked if I would like to brief some
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people at the CIA where they had other radar experts. I said ok,
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and then a guy from the CIA called up and invited me to come
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over. Apparently MacDonald had contacted the CIA on his own. So,
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here on this report (AIG) is a paragraph which is written in a
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slanted and fabricated manner."
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Maccabee was asked if it were true that after the New Zealand
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briefing he was taken aside by a CIA official and reveled to him
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that this man was custodian of UFO files, and that these files
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consisted of close to 15,000 documents, and then later on at some
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point he (Maccabee) later retreated from that statement. He said
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"Yes there is" and then he was asked if it were Dr. "Kit" Green,
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Maccabee said yes but he never mentioned the name. "Zechel found
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that out on his own."
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"After the briefing, this Green asked me if I would come back and
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we can talk about the UFO situation in general. I was interested
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knowing that the government and CIA had just coughed up a bunch
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of documents, and he may have wanted to talk about the subject
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for his own reasons whatever they were. I went back again and
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sometime in the conversation we got into the documents. From what
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I recall and I do not recall it specifically, Green probably said
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there were many more documents, maybe as many as 15,000
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documents. At any rate what is left out of this (AIG report) is
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what happened afterwards. I told Zechel about that because I knew
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he was dealing with that lawsuit. I thought he should know there
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might be more documents. I did not know of Zechel's independent
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information. Zechel had a covert source of his own. Plus, Gersten
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(Zechels attorney) had been led to believe by the CIA attorney
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there might be 10,000 pages." Maccabee stated then that in
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conversations with Green, Green told him that he personally only
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personally had approx. 1,000 documents.
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Maccabee's denial to Robert Hastings occurred in 1979 as opposed
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to the AIG report which states 1990. Maccabee stated "As far as a
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denial to Hastings, he had no need to know what I was doing 7 or
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8 years beforehand. I was not about to spread it around, and it
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is very possible I denied it, I do not remember."
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When asked how with his job and security level, and with his
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public and private UFO interest, how could he continue with his
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UFO investigations and not be censored and not suffer the
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consequences that others in government service have suffered with
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a public UFO interest. Larry Bryant was one example offered.
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Maccabee said "I just played it cool, Larry did not play it as
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cool. He started sending around paid advertisements to armed
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service newspapers, and when some of them wouldn't publish his
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stuff he got mad and sued them and stirred up a big stink." "I
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never knowingly passed any disinformation, nor was I given any
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information or disinformation to pass."
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Maccabee was then asked if it were true that as late as May 28th,
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1993 if he had once again briefed interested parties at CIA on
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the magnetic effects of the Gulf Breeze case and he answered
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"yes". Maccabee was asked if he had passed on information to CIA
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on any cases or personalities in the research community. "What I
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have done is talk to people that are interested in the subject on
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material that they could get elsewhere. At one time they were
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interested in tracking what was on bulletin boards (computer),
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with Lear and Cooper (Milton) and all that. I did not tell them
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anything that was not in the open literature. The Gulf Breeze
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briefing is a case in point, it was a lunch time talk, anyone
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could come to it,
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secretaries, street sweepers or the heads of covert departments,
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whatever. I did not know who showed up. CIA invites lots of
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people on lots of subjects and they will talk to people that are
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interested in those subjects. I been there a couple of times just
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like it said in this paper."
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Maccabee then stated that another misrepresentation in the AIG
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document concerned the years from 1979 to 1983. The paper states
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that Maccabee had a continuous and ongoing relationship with CIA.
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"FALSE" he stated. After the spring of 1979 I did not have ANY
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dealings with CIA until after 1983. In 1984 I was contacted by
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Pandolfi in regards to my work. I was asked to come over and give
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a briefing on my work which I did. Nothing about UFOs. I do not
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talk about UFOs unless the person I am talking to is amenable to
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it." After Maccabee gave the presentation on his work, he said
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that Pandolfi asked him about his 1979 presentation on New
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Zealand. "I couldn't deny it" Maccabee said, and "after that we
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got into conversations on the subject".
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"The implication of this document" said Maccabee, "is that I had
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continuous and ongoing relations with the CIA all the way through
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and that I was supplying information to the CIA on UFO stuff for
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years and years. This is not true."
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The one area where Maccabee was not open concerned the question
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about his being SEA GULL in William Moores aviary. Maccabee
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claimed he did not know if he were SEA GULL. When asked if he had
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received any documents addressed to SEA GULL he maintained he did
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not know.
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After conducting a number of interviews, I do not think there was
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any malicious intent on Maccabees part, but without a doubt some
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poor judgment. Walt Andrus was contacted to see if MUFON had any
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position on this. Andrus said that MUFONs position was "It is not
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a crime to talk to the CIA, after all they are a part of America
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to." Without a doubt they are, however after almost 50 years of
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lies and deceit where the UFO subject comes in, and considering
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historical events like the Robertson Panel, it is time for the
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government to come clean with the information on hand. There is a
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phenomenon, it has apparently interacted with human-kind for
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years. Agencies like CIA have hidden behind national security
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with information on UFOs, while claiming that UFOs do not
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threaten national security. You can't have it both ways and
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undoubtedly Maccabee will be another casualty in the long line of
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people who tried to have it both ways. Somehow only the
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phenomenon and the intelligence services seem to win this one.
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--end of file--
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