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SUBJECT: JUST CASUE NEWSLETTER FILE: UFO2940
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>>Second of two-part excerpt from "Just Cause", newsletter of Citizens Against
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UFO Secrecy, regarding the controversial "Aquarius" memo, and "MJ 12".
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What about the data in the "MJ12" report? The date is immediately telling.
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September 18, 1947, is the birthday of the CIA, the official first day of their
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existence! Is it a coincidence or a tell-tale clue to the document being phony?
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Or could this report have been one of the first orders of business for the
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flegdling CIA?
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The connection of the 1947 Roswell incident to this affair makes sense.
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Based on the information unveiled by Bill Moore, Stan Friedman and others, the
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Roswell crash was clearly a major topic in high government circles. It strains
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credibility to think that piles of metallic debris would have been sent to
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Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio from New Mexico for analysis if the material were
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simply parts of what should have been an easily-recognizable radar reflector
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balloon to Army Air Force officers. After the arrival of the material at
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Wright-Patterson and wherever else it may have gone, official documentation
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ceases. No useful government files describing analysis of the debris have been
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unearthed. Obviously analysis took place somewhere. Where is the report? If the
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Roswell object were a strange device of some sort, then involvement of the
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individuals listed as MJ 12 would make sense.
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My first thoughts upon seeing this list of people is that if a UFO had
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crashed and was recovered, this would be the kind of panel that I would want to
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put together to investigate the matter. All of these individuals were at the
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top in their respective areas of experience during the late 1940's and had the
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added benefit of government experience behind them. The Majestic 12 indeed!
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A number of them were later involved in the UFO phenomenon. In fact, fully
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half of the panel would make a mark on UFO history during and after 1947:
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o Hoyt Vandenberg - said to have read the now-famous 1948 "Estimate of the
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Situation" and subsequently ordered it downgraded and destroyed for lack of
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evidence that UFO's were interplanetary.
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o Roscoe Hillenkoeter - Former board member of NICAP and proponent of UFO
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reality.
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o Vannevar Bush - Mentioned in the formelry top secret Canadian "Smith memo"
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of November 21, 1950, as the head of a "concentrated effort" to study UFOs.
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o Nathan Twining - Authored a well-known September 1947 Air Force memo
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strongly endorsing the serious nature of UFOs.
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o Donald Menzel - Author of 3 books debunking the UFO phenomenon.
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o Lloyd Berkner - member of the CIA's "Robertson Panel" of 1953.
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Panel members' background show that most had connections to either the
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National Security Council or the Research and Development Board (R&DB). The
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R&DB figures prominently in testimony given to us by Dr. Robert Sarbacher and
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CAUS is convinced that UFO file material exists in the R&DB's holdings at the
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National Archives.
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Another curiousity. General Twining's pro-UFO "flying discs" memo (see
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CLEAR INTENT, pp.213-214) dated September 23, 1947, comes only five days after
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the MJ12 report. Could Twining's possible connection to an MJ12 panel have had
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an influence on his writing of the 9/23/47 memo?
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The listing of Vandenberg and particularly Donald Menzel as MJ12 members is
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a major curiousity since both had later negative involvement in UFOs. If an
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MJ12 Panel concluded that UFOs were real, Menzel's and Vandenberg's debunking
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would seem illogical. Or would it?
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If a singular incident of high national security importance occurred, like
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a Roswell incident, such could be classified more highly even that the H-Bomb,
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as the Smith memo so aptly put it. As study of the phenomenon progressed,
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secrecy would be of the utmost importance and any effort to diffuse the
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interest of the public and non-need-to-know personnel would be encouraged.
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Therefore, General Vandenberg, by batting down Project Sign's "Estimate of the
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Situation", would be preventing undue attention from being drawn to the subject
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by Project Sign personnel, who could not be regarded as having access to data
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more highly classified than the H-Bomb. It was too visible to be part of an
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"inner circle". The "Estimate" also lacked the proof to justify an
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interplanetary explanation for UFOs.
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>>To be continued in another file
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