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SUBJECT: WILL THE REAL SCOTT JONES PLEASE STAND UP? FILE: UFO2568
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Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up?
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A profile on the most ubiquitous character in ufology and parapsychology
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by Robert J. Durant
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The purpose of this monograph is to sing the praises of the Renaissance Man of
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the Paranormal, Cecil B. Scott Jones, Ph.D.
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If your field is ufology, you know Scott as a mover, shaker, organizer and
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confidante of some of the central figures in UFO research. And if you are a
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parapsychologist, you recognize the same face from countless symposia, boards
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of directors, and the like. Ufologists and parapsychologists seldom
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communicate, and even more rarely do they attend each other's meetings. So it
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comes as a shock to each group to learn that Scott has a foot so firmly planted
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in the "other" arena.
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His interest in these fields appears to have been triggered by personal
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experience. Scott describes his UFO sighting, which took place when he was a
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Navy fighter pilot in the Korean War, thus: "As I rolled into a split-S to
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descend to low altitude from around 30,000 feet, I saw a silver disc directly
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overhead" ("Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During The Korean War", R. F.
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Haines, LDA Press, Los Altos, CA, 1990, Page 54).
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He also had a "parapsychological" experience, which he describes in these vague
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terms: "When I retired from the Navy, as a result of something that happened to
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me, in the Navy, which was parapsychological in nature, I decided that there
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would be interest and there might be a commercial application, if what I was
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calling then 'applied psychic phenomena' was understood, and could be used in
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certain circumstances" (Lecture, Society for Psychical Research, England, 2
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November 1990).
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UFOlogy
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Scott's "clout" in ufology can perhaps be illustrated by a brief summary of his
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activities at the TREAT II conference in January, 1990, at the Blacksburg,
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Virginia campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia
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Tech).
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For you parapsychologists, TREAT stands for Treatment and Research of
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Experienced Anomalous Trauma. And that is crypto for UFO abduction research.
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About 70 investigators, including many research psychologists, clinicians, MDs,
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physicists and assorted intellectuals who take the abduction phenomenon very
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seriously met for five days to share ideas. This was by invitation only -- no
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publicity desired or allowed. Scott chaired a panel, conferred with the
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university sponsors, acted as liaison with the Prince of Liechtenstein (who was
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the major benefactor of the conference), and conferred on strategic
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organizational issues with Walter Andrus, the leader of the Mutual UFO Network
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(MUFON), and John Schuessler, Andrus' close ufological associate and second-
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in-command.
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TREAT was organized by Rima Laibow, MD, a psychiatrist determined to get
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mainstream attention for the abduction puzzle. She is the obvious and very
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visible leader, but Scott is never far.
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Laibow is a very energetic person and the center of violent controversy in
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abduction research circles. Previously a close associate of Budd Hopkins,
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Laibow is reported to be an abductee. She is also very well connected and has
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an exceptional "network" extending into Europe and the Soviet Union. If you can
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get close to Laibow, you are close to the state-of-the-art in abduction
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research. Scott stays close.
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In the fall of 1990, they lectured together in England. As late as the summer
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of 1991, Jones and Laibow were planning a yachting excursion together with Col.
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John Alexander (retired from the U.S. Army) to investigate anomalies in the
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Bahamas.
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Similarly, Jones was very familiar with Andrus and Schuessler prior to TREAT,
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and presumably remains on the closest terms with them. Andrus is retired and
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devotes all his time to running MUFON. Thus Jones is on the inside with respect
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to data collected by MUFON. In 1989, MUFON appointed Jones as a Special
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Consultant in International Relations, formalizing the relationship.
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A cynic might ask if Scott's activitles could suggest something other than a
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very active interest in the UFO mystery. The cynic could point out that he has
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insinuated himself into the inner sanctums of UFO research, has the ear of
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policy makers, and is in a position to monitor developments in all critical
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areas of study. A breakthrough in civilian ufology, such as the unambiguous
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identification of an alien artifact, would come to his attention almost at
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once. A policy decision concerning the disposition of the hypothetical artifact
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would probably not be taken before consulting with Scott.
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It is interesting to note that Scott is a cipher to the average UFO researcher
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or enthusiast. That is, the perhaps three or four thousand people who follow
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the subject with some dilligence over a protracted period of time, can easily
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recognize the names of probably 50 or so individuals who have made
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contributions to ufology or are "important" people in the field. But they would
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be puzzled if asked to identify C. B. Scott Jones.
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Scott rarely puts anything on paper, preferring instead to work behind the
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scenes, keeping in touch via telephone or personal visit. He attends most
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conferences of note, and goes to great lengths, in the literal geographical
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sense, to meet not only researchers but important witnesses. He has shown
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particular interest in spending time with abductees in recent years. But unlike
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so many others in ufology who rush to the typewriter to broadcast their
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opinions, Scott keeps his own quiet counsel. Thus, he provides us all with an
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uplifting example of humility.
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In a departure from his usual rule against publishing, Scott presented a paper
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at the 1991 conference of the Mutual UFO Network. The title was "Government UFO
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Connections." Those who were advised in advance of the title, and who knew
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something of Scott's background, thought the paper would contain a spectacular
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revelation.
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In a sense, it did, but more on that later.
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Parapsychology
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Scott Jones has been a fixture at parapsychology symposia ranging from the most
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august academic gatherings to New Age meetings and those of the human potential
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movement at least since the mid-1970s, when he organized a parapsychology
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conference in Casper, Wyoming.
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Among the conferences he has attended are those of the Parapsychological
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Association, the American Society for Psychical Research, the Society for
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Scientitic Exploration, the Southeastern Regional Parapsychological
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Association, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Society for
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Psychical Research, the International Forum on New Science, and the Archaeus
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Congress, to name a few.
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In 1983, a firm called Kaman Tempo, specializing in "think tank" intelligence
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analysis for the U.S. Government, organized a seminar on parapsychological
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applications. The seminar was attended by a number of federal employees. A
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formal proceedings of the seminar was published, with Jones as editor. In his
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sparse remarks, Jones made clear his very wide network of federal contacts, and
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intimated that he was the organizer of the seminar. This was certainly an
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auspicious start for someone who was just beginning to be noticed by insiders
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in parapsychology.
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Scott has been on the Board of Trustees of the American Society for Psychical
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Research (ASPR) since 1985, and now serves as its President. The ASPR was
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founded more than a century ago, and is the oldest organization in the U.S. to
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publish a refereed scientific journal in parapsychology. Complaints have been
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aired about his stewardship of the ASPR. These include charges that he is
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attempting to remove professional researchers from the Board of Trustees,
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replacing them with individuals who are more pliant to Jones' personal agenda
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for the organization.
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As in the field of ufology, one searches in vain for significant published
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material from the hand of Scott Jones. It appears that his only contribution to
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a parapsychological journal is a review of John White's "Psychic Warfare Fact
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or Fiction?" for the June 1989 issue of the "Journal of Parapsychology."
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Biographical Notes
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Scott Jones was born in 1928, and lived at least part of his childhood between
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Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi.
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He joined the U.S. Navy in about 1946. Following flight training in the
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Aviation Midshipman Program, he was commissioned in 1950. He was a career
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officer in the U.S. Navy, serving during the Korean War as a fighter pilot,
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which included two combat tours in VF-191, flying the F9F-2 Panther from the
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USS Princeton.
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He served in Naval Intelligence for approximately 15 years, including
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assignments with Carrier Division 14, and as Assistant Naval Attache, New
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Delhi, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal in the 1960s. He collected intelligence and
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provided intelligence support throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and
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North Africa.
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Jones has briefed the President's Scientific Advisory Committee, and has
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testified before House and Senate committees on intelligence matters.
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He retired from Naval Intelligence around 1976.
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Jones received an A.B. in Government from George Washington University in 1961,
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an M.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 1963, and
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a Ph.D. in International Studies from American University in 1975, with a
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dissertation entitled "How The Indian Lok Sabha Handles Defense Matters: An
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Institutional Study." He taught political science for three years at Casper
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College, Casper, Wyoming, and the University of Wyoming at Laramie, Wyoming.
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He has stated that he worked during the period following his Navy career for
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"several" companies, including R. F. Cross Associates, Ltd., of Alexandria,
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Virginia, and Kaman Tempo, "A Division of Kaman Sciences Corporation," in
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Alexandria, Virginia.
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His MUFON biographical sketch states that in his post-Navy career, he "worked
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in the private sector research and development community involved in the U.S.
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Government sponsored projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency, Defense
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Intelligence Agency (DIA), and U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command"
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(INSCOM).
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In 1985, Scott came in from the cold in a big way. Senator Claiborne Pell of
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Rhode Island, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the
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most senior politicians on Capitol Hill, appointed him to a position as Special
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Assistant. From this very prestigious vantage, Scott continued to do exactiy
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what he had been doing before, which is to say making the rounds of ufological
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and parapsychological meetings. He was always available, either at the Senate
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office he used in Washington thanks to the Senator's largesse, or on the road.
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It is not clear whether Jones ever did ordinary "aide" work. Rather, it seems
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that he devoted himself entirely to the field of paranormal inquiry.
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It is quite an exceptional situation that Jones found, and one that most of us
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in anomalies research would envy. The taxpayers of Rhode Island seem not to
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have noticed, and the December 5, 1988, issue of "U.S. News & World Report,"
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which devoted a great deal of space to New Age belief in the halls of Congress,
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mentioned Pell and his protege Jones, but failed to note that Jones was on the
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government payroll primarily as a psychic/UFO facilitator.
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In March of 1991, there came a parting of the ways, and Scott left the employ
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of Senator Pell, but not the field of the paranormal. He is now at his new
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organization, the Human Potential Foundation. With his assistant Menelika
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McCarthy, Scott continues to do that which he has done so well for the last
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decade. His foundation is ensconced in the resplendent offices of Sandground
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Barondess and West, P.C., at what is perhaps the most prestigious address in an
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area of fine office buidings on the Washington beltway. Clark Sandground and
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Claiborne Pell serve on the board of the foundation, which is reportedly funded
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by Laurance Rockefeller.
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Organizations
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Among the organizations with which Scott has been affiliated at one time or
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another, and of which there is some kind of public record, are these:
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Center For Applied Anomalous Phenomena - 6435 Shady Lane, Falls Church, VA
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22042-2335. Telephone: (703) 534-2423. Scott Jones, Founder. Jones states that
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his work is supported by the Center.
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Human Potential Foundation - 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 600., Vienna VA
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22182. Telephone: (703) 761-4281;fax:(703) 761-4249. Scott Jones, President.
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Established in 1989. Support comes from Claiborne Pell and Laurance
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Rockefeller.
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American Society for Psychical Research - 5 West 73rd Street, New York, NY
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10023. Telephone: (212) 799-5050. Jones has been on the Board of Trustees since
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1985; he now serves as President.
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Parapsychological Association P.0. Box 12236, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
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Telephone: (919) 688-8241. This is the professional association of
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parapsychologists. Jones has been an associate member since 1984.
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Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, TX 78155-4099.
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Telephone: (512) 379-9216. Jones was appointed Consultant in International
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Relations in 1989.
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Mid-Point - P.0. Box 246, 128 Main Street, So., Bridgewater, CT 06752.
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Telephone: (203) 354-5948. This is a small organization whose purpose is to do
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research with dolphins and apply the findings to other areas of endeavor. Jones
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serves on the Board of Advisors.
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R. F. Cross Associates, Ltd. - Alexandria, VA. [Directory assistance now has no
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listing for that organization]. Jones served as research director.
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Kaman Tempo - 2560 Huntington Avenue, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA 22303.
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[Directory assistance now has no listing for this organization, but lists a
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Kaman Sciences company in Alexandria, VA.]. Jones served as a research
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scientist.
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Atlantic University - 67th Street and Atlantic Avenue, P.0. Box 595, Virginia
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Beach, VA 23451. Telephone: (804) 428-3588. This unaccredited university is
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affiliated with the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Jones serves on the Board of
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Directors.
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Quest Institute - P.0. Box 3265, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Telephone: (804)
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295-3377. This institute sponsors educational programs in New Age areas. Jones
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serves on the Board of Directors.
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Travels
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Few scientists or academicians have the ability to travel the way Scott does.
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There is literally no significant conference in ufology or parapsychology in
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any part of the world that seems beyond the means of Scott Jones to visit. In
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addition to trips throughout the United States, Jones has gone to China, the
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U.S.S.R., the U.K., Continental and Eastern Europe, and South America, all in
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connection with paranormal research.
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It would probably be rude to inquire about the source of funds for all this
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globe trotting (and what Scott's "funders" expect to gain).
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Connections
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Scott's unique position on the staff of one of the ranking members of the U.S.
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Senate (Claiborne Pell) has been discussed above. The official connection alone
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is enough to guarantee easy access to the widest range of government agencies
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and private organizations at the executive level. Beyond that, Senator Pell's
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personal network, firmly based on his credentials as an Eastern Establishment
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aristocrat, was at the disposal of Jones. It is difficult to imagine any door
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that could not be opened by this awesome combination.
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Scott often escorted Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein, a very wealthy European
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with a long-standing interest in the paranormal. Together, they visited
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parapsychological laboratories and UFO conferences. According to the "Sunday
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Times of India" for August 4, 1991, "Hans-Adam controls 97% of the voting
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rights and 85% of the share capital of the Bank of Liechtenstein, which in turn
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controls the $3.3 billion GT Management of London. The personality magazine
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"Special Report" (November 1990-January 1991) described the Prince as "Heir to
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the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire."
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Recently, in a bizarre turn of events that was reported in several outlets
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including "Harpers Magazine" (January 1991, page 25), a personal letter from
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Scott to "Dear Dick" Cheney, the Secretary of Defense, was published. That
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Jones should be in a position to write a letter to the Secretary and address
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him as "Dick" is illuminating.
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One would suppose that all this "clout" would result in a tangible flow of
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money into the accounts of laboratories and individuals engaged in paranormal
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research. Oddly, this does not seem to be the case. In the last three years,
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two major para-psychological laboratories have closed due to lack of funds.
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Scott was well familiar with their work and their plight, but was unable to
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help.
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Scott enjoys considerable support, even luxury, in his own pursuit of
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paranormal inquiry. Yet the ASPR, of which he is president, is widely known to
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be in dire financial straits. The flow of information and money appears to be
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to Scott, not from him.
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Rumors
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A number of intriguing rumors have been circulated by Scott watchers:
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* That Jones has approached professional parapsychological researchers and
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questioned them about how best to recruit and utilize psychics for military
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intelligence gathering.
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* That Jones has visited an enormous number of psychics for "readings."
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* That Jones has taken a number of psychic development courses.
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* That for many years Jones has been involved with classified research on
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electronic mind control.
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* In the fall of 1988 a television documentary entitled "UFO Coverup? - Live"
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was shown throughout the U.S. The program featured "revelations" from alleged
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intelligence agents about aliens enjoying the hospitality of the government at
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an unnamed Air Force base. This program is considered to be a classic instance
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of UFO disinformation. Rumor has it that, two years prior to this, Jones had
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approached media representatives about doing a show about UFOs, and that he had
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offered to provide secret information from the government for the program.
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* Among some of the New Agers who have been in Scott's company, he has acquired
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a reputation for having an extraordinary memory. It is said that he can
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uncannily repeat, word for word, conversations that took place long before.
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This is done without the benefit of notes or a tape recorder, and is said to
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occur in instances where witnesses to the conversation thought he wasn't even
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paying attention. This gift must have been useful to Scott in his intelligence
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career.
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Dolphins
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Jones has conducted his own dolphin telepathy studies along with Colonel John
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Alexander and Theodore Rockwell, a prominent (Who's Who) nuclear engineer who
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has worked on naval nuclear propulsion systems and who also serves as vice
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president of the U.S. Psychotronics Association.
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Although Scott has been rather shy when it comes to committing his ideas to
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paper, he has, on a few occasions, made informal presentations at
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parapsychology conferences. The most notable of these was his description of
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his dolphin telepathy experiments, which he describes as "interspecies
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communication."
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The reception from the general audience was warm, but some professionals were
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appalled by what they perceived as the lack of scientific basis for Scott's
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claims.
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Scott displayed marvelous creativity when he enthusiastically urged that
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dolphins be channeled in order to locate the remains of crashed flying saucers.
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In one bold stroke he thereupon melded the previously disparate disciplines of
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ufology and parapsychology.
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'Government UFO Connections'
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This is the title of the paper delivered by Scott Jones to the seven hundred
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ufologists assembled at the 1991 MUFON symposium in Chicago. It should also,
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perhaps, be the sign on the various doors of Scott Jones' various offices
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during the past ten years. Just a bit more paint would tell the whole story:
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"Government UFO/Psi Connections -- Walk In."
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The MUFON paper trudges through Poly Sci 101, outlining the tensions that exist
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between the legislative and the executive branches of our government. We read
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every word, waiting for the bombshell. Scott goes to China, with full Senate
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portfolio, and asks about UFO reports. Somehow, the Chinese think he is there
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to share information!
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As Jones tells the story in his 1991 Omega Conference speech, "They could not
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believe that someone who was truly a Special Assistant to a very senior U.S.
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Senator would ask for an appointment to talk about UFOs and then pretend not to
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know what his government was doing in the field."
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When it becomes obvious that Scott is not forthcoming about what the U.S.
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Government knows about UFOs, the Chinese respond in kind and give him pieces of
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metal that, they assert (in veiled Oriental fashion), may, or may not, come
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from a crashed disc.
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Next, Scott walks us through a detailed metallurgical analysis that proves the
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metal to be the entirely terrestrlal debris from an electrical power
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transmission tower. Perhaps Scott's presentation could be construed as a subtle
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advertisement for his access to high-tech analysis capabilities (Message:
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contact Scott at once if you have suspected alien material for analysis).
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Worried, but still anticipating, we come to the bottom line: Scott has to
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confess to ufologists, Chinese, American or whatever, that he "...honestly did
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not know of any activity of the U.S. Government" in the field of UFOs (page
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176).
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This statement should be received with amusement by ufologists.
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Two credible books have been written about the massive documentation that has
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been uncovered, through the Freedom of Informatlon Act (FOIA) and other
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sources, detailing covert federal interest in UFO reports and the activities of
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UFO researchers and organizations ("Clear Intent", Fawcett & Greenwood,
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Prentice-Hall, 1984, and "Revelations", Jacques Vallee, Ballantine, 1991).
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There is overwhelming evidence that personnel from the Air Force Office of
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Special Investigations (AFOSI), a counter-intelligence organization, have for
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years been involved in disinformation activities in the UFO field.
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The following are a few well known examples of "activity of the U.S.
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Government" in the field of UFOs. Despite his repeated claims of ignorance,
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Jones' name has surfaced in some of these cases.
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William L. Moore
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Another ubiquitous character in this continuing saga is one William L. Moore, a
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former Minnesota school teacher and co-author of "The Philadelphia Experiment"
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(Berlitz and Moore, 1979) and "The Roswell Incident" (Berlitz and Moore, 1980).
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In fact it was Moore who sparked the intense interest in the now celebrated
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Roswell Incident. Moore's name is also well known in relation to Richard Doty,
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Jaime Shandera, MJ-12, Paul Bennewitz, and Lee Graham, and reports also link
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him to our favorite "know-nothing" for some years.
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In the June, 1989, issue of the MUFON UFO Journal, Robert Hastings published a
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blistering attack on the credibility of William Moore. A few months later, in a
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speech delivered to an astonished audience at the 1989 MUFON Symposium, Moore
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admitted to a long career as a "controlled informant" to the U.S. Government.
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Further, in the same amazing talk, Moore admitted to having deceived a number
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of people. The ensuing uproar has yet to subside, and in a recent interview,
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Moore admitted to still being a controlled informant ("UFO", 1992 Vol. 7,
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No.1).
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In his 1991 Omega Conference talk, Jones echoed some of the themes of Moore's
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1989 MUFON spectacle. Jones spoke discouragingly of the use of the Freedom of
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|
Information Act, and in one of his parenthetical remarks, he spoke of Moore
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with approbation. In fact, only two other ufologists, Professor Michael Swords
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and conference organizer John White, were mentioned in the entire speech.
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Shortly after his remarks about Moore, Jones again proclaimed that he "quite
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honestly... didn't have the vaguest idea of what the government was doing" in
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the field of UFOs.
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Sergeant Richard Doty
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One of Moore's long-time buddies is Sergeant Richard Doty, with whom he is now
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advertising a co-authored forthcoming book. Doty was formerly a special agent
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with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) assigned to
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Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.
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Hastings' 1989 paper makes a strong case that Doty was involved in fabricating
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a UFO report delivered to the civilian Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
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(APRO) in 1980.
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Linda M. Howe, a television journalist known for her work on cattle
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mutilations, was invited to Kirtland AFB in 1983 by Doty. At the time, she was
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working on a documentary on UFOs. During her visit, Doty showed her what he
|
|
claimed were briefing documents prepared for the president of the United States
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and which discussed crashed saucers and recovered bodies of ETs ("UFO Universe"
|
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July, 1988). Doty promised movie footage would be provided later. But the
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footage never arrived, and Howe's documentary was cancelled, which Howe now
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suspects was the intended purpose of offering her the "bait."
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Howe produced a sworn statement describing her meeting with Doty. He later
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denied the incident, but in an apparently unrelated matter, Doty's honesty was
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questioned by the military and he flunked a lie detector test, thus casting
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further doubt on Doty's integrity ("Skeptics UFO Newsletter", January 1991).
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There is every reason to believe Howe's account.
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Jacques Vallee ("Revelations") reports that Moore now claims that Doty worked
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for an Officer Hennessey, based at the Bolling AFB, Headquarters of AFOSI (the
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name "Hennessey" also arises in the case of Lee Graham, described below).
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Captain Robert Collins
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But Richard Doty is not the only person on Kirtland AFB to take part in these
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shenanigans. In November, 1987, Captain Collins arranged a meeting with Linda
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Howe, which was also attended by John Lear, a former employee of a CIA front
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|
called Air America, the son of the famous inventor Bill Lear (the car radio,
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|
the Lear jet), and a candidate for the State Legislature in Nevada. Lear has
|
|
also been a primary source for stories claiming that there are vast underground
|
|
bases in the Southwest populated by aliens carrying out grotesque biological
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|
experiments using humans, all with the approval and connivance of the U.S.
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Government.
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At the meeting, Collins presented Howe and Lear with documents concerning MJ-12
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and an alien held captive by the government. According to Howe's affidavit,
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Collins spoke of having worked "behind the scenes" for many years with William
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Moore.
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This is quite extraordinary activity on the part of Doty and Collins, and much
|
|
of it took place on government property over a period of years. Some skeptics
|
|
have suggested that the Doty-Collins activities were simply the private hobby
|
|
of a couple of renegades. If so, Jones should certainly be In a position to
|
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clear the air on this.
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|
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Indeed, even Philip Klass has uncovered government information on Doty. But
|
|
despite Jones' "honest" ignorance of the "activity of the U.S. Government," he
|
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met with Moore and Doty while In the employ of Senator Pell ("UFO", 1992, Vol.
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|
101. No. 7). But he has refused to discuss the matter with credible
|
|
investigators. Whatever the ultimate reason for the Doty-Collins activities,
|
|
the effect has been to waste an immense amount of the time, energy and money of
|
|
UFO researchers. Lear has often stated that he obtains his data about
|
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underground bases, etc., from "intelligence sources" ("The MJ-12 Affair: Facts,
|
|
Questions, Comments," by Robert Hastings, MUFON UFO Journal, No. 254, June
|
|
1989).
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Jaime Shandera and MJ-12
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Moore's colleague, Jaime Shandera, a television producer, claims to have
|
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received a roll of undeveloped film in the mail in mid-December, 1984. And
|
|
Shandera promptly alerted his colleague. Development showed a document
|
|
purporting to describe a crashed saucer recovered by the U.S. Government in
|
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1947. The material also suggested that alien bodies were recovered and that a
|
|
top-secret panel of 12 scientists, military leaders, and intelligence officials
|
|
(MJ-12) were commissioned to supervise the investigation.
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|
|
|
Study of the MJ-12 documents has absorbed an immense amount of effort which the
|
|
impoverished UFO research community can ill afford. It is most unfortunate that
|
|
Scott Jones, in his search for UFO-related activity of the U.S. Government, did
|
|
not use the power of his position to establish the provenance of the MJ-12
|
|
papers or the motives of the various government employees engaged in their
|
|
disseminatlon.
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|
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|
In October, 1990, Shandera contacted "R" saying that his "contact" had told him
|
|
that a high authority (perhaps in the Pentagon) had determined that Shandera
|
|
should establish and maintain a relationship with "R." Shandera also let it be
|
|
known that he was in contact with a scientist in the military involved with
|
|
remote viewing. "R" began having apparently precognitive dreams involving
|
|
Saddam Hussein and Iraq, and he reported them to Shandera. Shandera told "R"
|
|
that he passed these along to "authorities." "R" later learned that Shandera
|
|
and Moore were in contact with Scott Jones, and "R" called Jones. Jones
|
|
expressed familiarity with the reported dreams and went on to say that he was
|
|
familiar with Psi Tech but gave little further information.
|
|
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|
Paul Bennewitz
|
|
|
|
Paul Bennewitz, a physicist and manufacturer of temperature and humidity
|
|
measuring devices sold to the military, claimed to have discovered alien
|
|
devices and communications at Kirtland AFB. The military apparently took
|
|
Bennewitz seriously, and he was invited to Kirtland to present his material.
|
|
|
|
Bennewitz eventually was hospitalized for psychiatric care and has dropped out
|
|
of UFO research. It appears that Bennewitz was the object of a program of
|
|
psychological destabilization originated by AFOSI at Kirtland. Documents
|
|
concerning Bennewitz were signed by Special Agent Doty.
|
|
|
|
In his published MUFON speech, Moore claimed that he had no hand in the "dirty
|
|
tricks," but in fact tried to protect Bennewitz, although he knew Bennewitz was
|
|
being disinformed and becoming progressively more unbalanced. This is one of
|
|
the most ominous chapters in the Moore-Doty-AFOSI litany, and it cries out for
|
|
investigation by the legislative branch of the U.S. Government. Unfortunately,
|
|
Jones, in his Diogenes-like search for "activity of the U.S. Government" has
|
|
missed this one.
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Lee Graham
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|
|
|
Before the appearance of the MJ-12 papers, UFO researcher Lee Graham, a
|
|
technician with a secret clearance working for Aerojet Electrosystems, Azusa,
|
|
California, was contacted by Willlam Moore. Graham had never met Moore, but had
|
|
written to him after the publication of the Moore-Berlitz book on Roswell.
|
|
During the next few months Moore gave to the perplexed Graham a series of
|
|
documents, all exhibiting security classification markings. These papers
|
|
included the alleged Eisenhower briefing document and other material relating
|
|
to UFOs and government involvement with aliens or alien technology.
|
|
|
|
Graham, whose livelihood depends on maintaining his security clearance,
|
|
eventually took the documents to the Aerojet official in charge of security,
|
|
and asked that both the documents and Moore be investigated by the Defense
|
|
Investigation Service (DIS). Ultimately, the documents were back in Graham's
|
|
hands, marked "unclassified."
|
|
|
|
Graham, however, became the object of intense scrutiny by the DIS. He
|
|
repeatedly demanded that Moore be investigated for distributing documents that
|
|
appeared to be extremely sensitive, and for exhibiting an identification card
|
|
indistinguishable from those used by the many DIS agents that Graham had
|
|
encountered. But to the best of Graham's knowledge, Moore has never been
|
|
interviewed by DIS or any other agency concerning these serious charges.
|
|
|
|
It would be a simple matter for Pell's office to request an investigation of
|
|
Moore on the basis of Graham's charges.
|
|
|
|
In 1987, Graham was paid an intimidating visit at his workplace by FBI Special
|
|
Agent William Hurley, accompanied by a man in civilian clothes who did not
|
|
identify himself, but who was later identified as no less than Major General
|
|
Michael Kerby, USAF, at that time the Director of the Air Force Legislative
|
|
Liaison office.
|
|
|
|
Kerby's military career differs from that of most of the uniformed players in
|
|
this drama, in that he seems to have had no intelligence background. Prior to
|
|
the assignment with congressional liaison, Kerby appears to have been in
|
|
command of the operational aspects of the "stealth" fighter aircraft, as well
|
|
as other very sensitive aviation activities at Nellis AFB.
|
|
|
|
During the interview with Hurley and his companlon, Graham was shown a document
|
|
identifying the then Top Secret designation of the F-117 "Stealth" fighter, a
|
|
piece of information Graham had tirelessly pursued through Freedom of
|
|
Information Act requests. He was also given a form to sign, certifying that he
|
|
had been given information "for which you have no need to know." This very
|
|
unusual action was followed by a lengthy "pep talk" in which Hurley and Kerby
|
|
praised Graham for his work in disseminating the MJ-12 documents! Graham says
|
|
that the bulk of the one-hour interview concerned the MJ-12 papers.
|
|
|
|
The news that the man accompanying FBI Agent Hurley was a two-star general came
|
|
to Graham from an unexpected and extraordinary source: C. B. Scott Jones.
|
|
|
|
Graham had never met Jones, nor did the name mean anything to him when Jones
|
|
called and opened the conversation by saying that he and Graham "had a mutual
|
|
acquaintance." Jones was referring to the mystery man who accompanied Special
|
|
Agent Hurley on the interview with Graham. During the course of the
|
|
conversation, Jones promised to send information that would help Graham
|
|
identify the mysterious interviewer.
|
|
|
|
Shortly thereafter, Graham received a note from Jones, on U.S. Senate
|
|
letterhead, together with the official Air Force biography of Kerby, including
|
|
his photograph. Graham recognized the face at once as that of the man who
|
|
accompanied the FBl agent, and who spoke so enthusiastically about the MJ-12
|
|
papers.
|
|
|
|
Jones was asked to explain this strange episode, and gave the following
|
|
account. Jones was in his office at Pell's Senate suite. Kerby, in the normal
|
|
course of his liaison duties, was paying a courtesy call on Senator Pell. Kerby
|
|
spotted Jones, and they had a chat.
|
|
|
|
Apparently they had met before, and chatted at some length, because Jones says,
|
|
"Kerby knew of my interest in these matters," meaning UFOs.
|
|
|
|
Obviously, Kerby had some time on his hands, and for reasons Jones refuses to
|
|
elaborate, Kerby told Jones about his visit to Graham, incognito. Jones has
|
|
been pressed about all this with understandable vigor by Graham and by
|
|
journalist Don Ecker, but to no avail.
|
|
|
|
Jones, I must remind the weary reader, is the man who "honestly" does "not know
|
|
of any activity of the U.S. Government" in the field of UFOs. (See "UFO", Vol.
|
|
6, No. 6, 1991, page 12; also multiple personal communications with Don Ecker,
|
|
November and December 1991; multiple personal communications with Lee Graham,
|
|
November and December 1991).
|
|
|
|
During his FOIA requests, Graham asked for files compiled on himself. When he
|
|
received them, he learned that a Colonel Barry Hennessey was involved in
|
|
monitoring Graham's activities. Richard Doty is said to have reported to an
|
|
"Officer Hennesey" in the AFOSI chain of command.
|
|
|
|
Roswell
|
|
|
|
The hottest topic in ufology today is the account of an apparent crashed UFO
|
|
recovery operation near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. The principal recent
|
|
investigators, Randle and Schmitt, report that they have a dozen retired
|
|
military and intelligence officials who are willing to give testimony on the
|
|
retrieval, but only if they are relieved from the strictures of the Espionage
|
|
Act. This is a very reasonable request.
|
|
|
|
Immunity from prosecution under various statutes is now routinely granted by
|
|
the Congress, and it would be a simple matter for Jones, through Pell, to make
|
|
the necessary arrangements in the case of these pivotal, but reluctant, Roswell
|
|
witnesses.
|
|
|
|
Dr. Jones, who focuses his attentions on minutiae such as the identity of Lee
|
|
Graham's mysterious visitor, has not bothered to contact Randle and Schmitt, or
|
|
Jerome Clark of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies to offer his good
|
|
offices in this specific matter, nor in any other way to unlock what is
|
|
universally acknowledged to be a U.S. Government stranglehold (surely a form of
|
|
"activity") on Roswell information (personal communication, Jerome Clark, 14
|
|
January 1992; personal communication, Kevin Randle to Vincent Ellis, 11 January
|
|
1992).
|
|
|
|
Strange Priorities
|
|
|
|
It is important to note that these instances of "Government - UFO connections"
|
|
are exceptionally well known in ufological circles, having been discussed at
|
|
great length in a variety of journals and newsletters.
|
|
|
|
So it is indeed odd that Jones has had a long-standing relationship with a
|
|
"ufologist" who claims to be a government "controlled informant," who has
|
|
admitted to deceit in the past, but who claims that his goal is simply to learn
|
|
the truth about government-UFO activities. The anomaly is that Jones seems to
|
|
avoid similarly close links to credible researchers studying federal
|
|
involvement with the UFO problem. Of course, Scott's services would be of
|
|
little use to them because he "honestly does not know of any activity of the
|
|
U.S. Government" in the field of UFOs.
|
|
|
|
The Fund for UFO Research has concluded that breaking the federal secrecy about
|
|
UFOs can only be accomplished through the legislative branch of the U.S.
|
|
Government. To this end, the Fund has placed top priority on preparing video
|
|
and written briefings for members of Congress and their aides. A meeting was
|
|
held in the fall of 1991 to gather principal UFO researchers and staff from
|
|
relevant congressional committees in order to assess the state of UFO research.
|
|
|
|
Jones was invited, and one would suppose that the man who travels so easily to
|
|
China and the U.S.S.R. would have no problem attending a meeting of such
|
|
critical importance held almost literally in his own back yard. He did not
|
|
attend. Nor did the other congressional staff members who were invited.
|
|
(Personal communication, Fred Whiting, Secretary of the Fund, 26 December
|
|
1991).
|
|
|
|
Government UFO
|
|
Connections II
|
|
|
|
In their book "Clear Intent", Fawcett and Greenwood discuss the infiltration of
|
|
the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), a major
|
|
civilian UFO organization. They begin their discussion by reciting the
|
|
activities of some of the earliest NICAP members such as Nicholas de Rochefort,
|
|
employed by the Psychological Warfare Staff of the CIA, Bernard J. O. Carvalho,
|
|
who was involved In various secretly owned CIA business enterprises, and Vice
|
|
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first Director of the CIA.
|
|
|
|
Fawcett and Greenwood go on to say: "Further evidence of CIA influence in NICAP
|
|
developed during the period immediately before NICAP's decline. On December 3,
|
|
1969, Donald Keyhoe was ousted as NICAP's director during a board meeting. Who
|
|
led the effort to remove Keyhoe? The Chairman of the Board, Col. Joseph Bryan,
|
|
former chief of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff (1947-1959). And who
|
|
replaced Keyhoe? John Acuff, who was the head of the Society of Photographic
|
|
Scientists and Engineers (SPSE), a frequent target of Russian spying attempts
|
|
and a group that had many members involved in Defense Department intelligence
|
|
units, including the CIA.
|
|
|
|
His management of NICAP was financially "tight" (in the cheap sense) and
|
|
totally inept in a research sense. Criticism of government UFO policy was gone,
|
|
and NICAP merely served as a sighting collection center. Acuff's management
|
|
drove loyal members away and ultimately led to Acuff's downfall in 1978.
|
|
|
|
Who replaced Acuff? None other than Alan Hall, a retired CIA employee, who
|
|
accepted the position after a number of other CIA employees were offered the
|
|
job. Support for Hall came from Charles Lombard, an aide to Senator Barry
|
|
Goldwater and a former CIA covert employee. NICAP eventually became so
|
|
ineffective that it was disolved (page 207).
|
|
|
|
Are there parallels between the demise of NICAP and Jones' activities at the
|
|
ASPR?
|
|
|
|
The Colonel
|
|
|
|
Scott's friend, Colonel John Alexander, has an intriguing background. Besides
|
|
being Jones' fellow researcher on anomalies in the Bahamas, he has displayed a
|
|
long term interest in the paranormal. In 1980, he published an article in
|
|
"Military Review" subtitled "Beam Me Up, Spock." Alexander has actively
|
|
promoted psychic metal bending among government personnel using the techniques
|
|
pioneered by Jack Houck of McDonnell Douglas. Alexander is a former president
|
|
of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, and he worked with
|
|
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
|
|
|
|
Alexander also served as the military liaison to the National Research
|
|
Council's panel evaluating parapsychological applications. Reportedly, he had
|
|
access to classified government material on parapsychology.
|
|
|
|
Alexander had a 32-year career in the Army, including a stint as director of
|
|
the Advanced Systems Concept Office, U.S. Army Laboratory Command. Alexander
|
|
also was chief of the Advanced Human Technology Office of the Intelligence and
|
|
Security Command (INSCOM).
|
|
|
|
His colleague, General Albert Stubblebine, was head of INSCOM. In his MUFON
|
|
paper, Scott Jones acknowledged working on a project for INSCOM. According to
|
|
the January/February 1990 issue of "International UFO Reporter", Alexander is
|
|
manager of anti-material technology in the Defense Initiative Office at Los
|
|
Alamos National Laboratory. Thus he is located in an area of intense activity
|
|
-- New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment.
|
|
|
|
Alexander recently co-authored a book entitled "The Warrior's Edge" (Morrow,
|
|
New York, 1990) with Major Richard Groller and Janet Morris. Groller served on
|
|
the staff of the Directorate of Intelligence, U.S. Forces Command, the U.S.
|
|
Army Intelligence School, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Groller
|
|
has published an article in "Military Intelligence" titled "Soviet
|
|
Psychotronics - A State of Mind." Morris is affiliated with the National
|
|
Intelligence Study Center and worked as long as 19 years ago on the effect of
|
|
mind on probability in computer systems.
|
|
|
|
The Generals
|
|
|
|
One wonders about a two-star General (Kerby) showing up incognito to interview
|
|
a "UFO buff," (Graham) and who also spends some of his time with a
|
|
congressional aide who specializes in paranormal and New Age topics. But
|
|
stealth specialist Kerby is not the only general officer who seems to be on
|
|
friendly terms with Scott Jones.
|
|
|
|
While Kerby seems to devote his energies to the UFO problem, Major General
|
|
Albert Stubblebine focuses on parapsychology. I will quote from Howard Blum's
|
|
book "Out There" (Simon & Schuster, 1990), which is devoted to an account of
|
|
U.S. Government activities in the fields of ufology and parapsychology. Nearly
|
|
every review of this book has pointed out the extraordinary number of factual
|
|
errors it contains, but the information on Stubblebine appears to be correct:
|
|
|
|
"In the early 198Os, Army Intelligence was an inventive, why-not-give-it-a-try
|
|
sort of organization. It was spending millions on parapsychological
|
|
experiments. It had contracted with the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia,
|
|
for studies to relieve stress through 'advanced states of consciousness.'It had
|
|
spent research dollars on 'hemisphere synchronization,' a process that uses
|
|
patterns of sound waves to intensify consciousness by 'uniting' both
|
|
hemispheres of the brain. Marksmen were being taught to concentrate through
|
|
paranormal methods (a project so intense that several officers later claimed
|
|
they suffered recurring mental problems as a result.)
|
|
|
|
And the Commander of INSCOM, as the Army's Intelligence and Security Command
|
|
was known, was Major General Albert Stubblebine, a man nicknamed 'Spoon bender'
|
|
because of his rumored belief in psychic powers" (page 58).
|
|
|
|
Since he has left the Army, Stubblebine has been quite involved in paranormal
|
|
areas. Stubblebine, formerly Vice President for "Intelligence Systems" of BDM
|
|
of McClean, Virginia, is now Chairman of Psi Tech, a group that aspires to
|
|
provide psychic advice to Fortune 500 companies. Reportedly, most members of
|
|
Psi Tech are ex-military personnel who were trained in a multi-million dollar
|
|
parapsychological applications program developed at SRI International.
|
|
|
|
A few years ago, Psi Tech received national publicity for attempting to "remote
|
|
view" hidden biological weapons in Iraq. Recently, Psi Tech personnel have told
|
|
a number of people that they believe they have found a colony of invisible
|
|
aliens in New Mexico.
|
|
|
|
Onward
|
|
|
|
Laibow, Stubblebine and ufologist Victoria Lacas (with Jones in the shadows)
|
|
toured Europe and the Soviet Union, where they have established a prodigious
|
|
UFO/Psi network. It subsumes both fields of inquiry (parapsychology and
|
|
ufology), and is international in composition and scope. Scott's goals were
|
|
stated thus in his Omega Conference speech:
|
|
|
|
"I assume that the effective stonewalling position of the U.S. Government may
|
|
not be the norm in all countries. The question is, can we identify countries
|
|
that may be more open on the subject than the United States, who would be
|
|
willing to share with researchers credible evidence of extraterrestrial
|
|
activities, and the knowledge that they have also shared this evidence with
|
|
other governments? The second avenue of activity would be to act as a public
|
|
broker between countries in this area."
|
|
|
|
An organization called the International Association for New Science, of Fort
|
|
Collins, Colorado, sponsored an "International Symposium on UFO Research" held
|
|
in Denver on May 22 through May 25, 1992. The first two days consisted of a
|
|
"retreat" for "prominent researchers" and would not be open to the public.
|
|
Among the goals of the new organization are "the formulation of synergistic and
|
|
cooperative future UFO research strategies."
|
|
|
|
General Albert Stubblebine, in what appears to be his debut as a public figure
|
|
in ufology, spoke on (pun probably not intended) "General UFO phenomena."
|
|
|
|
Doubtless the General was in the audience, nodding in profound agreement, when
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another scheduled speaker, C. B. Scott Jones, shared his accumulated wisdom on
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the topic of "Abductors/abductees and government involvement/ cover-up."
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** End **
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Mr. Durant is an airline pilot and MUFON's Section Director for Mercer Co., New
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Jersey. This article was written in 1992.
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