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SUBJECT: MUFON REPORTS FILE: UFO2594
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PART 4
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Date: Fri Mar 11 14:47:52 1988
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From: DALE B. WEDGE (ae511)
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Subj: MJ-12/Klass/Friedman/The Debate
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If you have been following the UFO uploads, you will remember
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that we have discussed the MJ-12 documents that were supplied
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by Bill Moore/Jaime Shandera/Stanton T. Friedman.
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As the skeptics know, Phil Klass has called these hoax docu-
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ments. Well, the debate continues, and so does Stan
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Friedman. The following was taken from the current issue
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of SAUCER SMEAR which is put out by James Moseley of Florida:
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Dear Jim:
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The spelling of Air Materiel Command isn't the only foolish
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mistake made by Phil Klass in his frenzy of massive misrep-
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resentation about MJ-12. All his other "Hard Evidence" along
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with the complaints of CAUS and Peter Gersten also fall flat
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upon careful scrutiny. For example, Klass tried to complain
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that the MJ-12 Briefing document was a fraud because it used
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a "wrong" date format (18 September, 1952---06 December),
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"erroneously" referred to R.H. Hillenkoetter as Roscoe, and
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the Truman-Forrestal "letter" was unlike genuine Truman
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Letters. The facts are that the "wrong" date format, not only
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was used by many others besides Bill Moore including Hillen-
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koetter himself, and was standard with NATO and even
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specified in an early version of JANAP 146. RHH's name
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indeed Roscoe and his full name is noted on President Truman's
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appointment book. The Truman Forrestal item is plainly
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called MEMORANDUM and of course is unlike other "letters"
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especially in not including the recipient's address. Klass flat
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out lied about an FBI age test of the Cutler memo.
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It is almost ludicrous for Klass to postulate what Ike did or
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not know in July of 1947 and therefore how Hillenkoetter
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would have pharsed a briefing 5 years later. After all CSICOP
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has also bitterly attacked psychic phenomena and here is
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PK being psychic.
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The CAUS complaints, which reek of sour grapes, are equally
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without foundation though quite worthy as compared with the
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Klass Komplaints. Gersten's notion that what happened at
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Roswell and most 1947-1952 sightings are connected with
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Earth based technology derived from the Horten Brothers flying
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wing technology is frankly absurd. If any government
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(the US, USSR, or anybody else) had the saucer technology capable
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of supersonic highly maneuverable flight without
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noise, visible engines, etc and made of extraordinarily strong
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and light weight material in 1947 and was able to find
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enough midgets to operate a fleet of such vehicles in 1947,
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than why have the primary protagonists still built Mig-
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21,23, and 25 and F-16, 17, 18 and Mirage 3 etc etc aircraft
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with conventional jet engines, loads of noise and no super-
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strong lightweight skin?? The Northrop Flying Wing Aircraft
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was indeed a fine plane. But it was NOT a flying saucer. Jac
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Northrup personally told me of a sighting by an FW pilot of
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a flying saucer. Jack was convinced that some UFOs were
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indeed of alien origin.
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No, Jim, despite the hue and cry, no evidence yet put forth
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gives any indication that the MJ-12 Briefing and the Cutler-
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Twining and Truman-Forrestal Memoranda are fradulent. Quite
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the contrary. One is tempted to conclude that if the arguments
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made to date with all the frantic scurrrying about are the
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best that can be made, that clearly the documents must be
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genuine!! One must, of course, take into account such strong
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and surprising findings as Donald Menzel's activities on
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highly classified matter, that the dates of both the Truman-
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Forrestal Memorandum and Ike-Briefing are indeed of
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special significance, that the wording of the Cutler-Twining
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memo echoes that of other obscure memos from that time
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frame, etc, etc. Hopefully all the critics will read my over-
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view article in IUR, and then at least do more homework before
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rushing to judgment or blind acceptance of the proper
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sounding objections not backed up by solid research. It is
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almost funny that Klass's source of the wrong spelling of
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Materiel was a letter in the Condon report (retyped, not
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Zeroxed), when there are three correct spellings, at least,
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in the same volume!
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I would suggest that the critics start doing some real research
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rather than jumping blindly to conclusions derived from wish-
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ful thinking and apparently fear of reality. Lord knows there
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is still plenty of work to do such as unearthing who all was
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at the Ike Briefing on November 18, 1952, and what Bush and
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Forrestal discussed at their Sept. 24, 1947, meeting just
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prior to their only meeting with Truman in late 1947, and what
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Donald Menzel did during his trips to New Mexico in 1947 and
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Hasitly, /STAN/
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