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SUBJECT: H SUB 1 = PROJECT FIDO FILE: UFO3155
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Date: 09-10-93
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From: RICH BOYLAN
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Subj: H sub 1 = PROJECT FIDO
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The following HYPOTHESIS is offered in the interest of stimulating inquiry into
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a developing phenomenon on this Echo: the slow, gradual evolution of this Echo
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from a UFO informational exchange into a debunkers Echo combat zone.What might
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be a reasonable explasnation for this shift? In search of such an explanation,
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the following hypothesis is proposed, along with supporting arguments.
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Hypothesis 1: The change in the overall tone and content of FIDO's UFO Echo
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towards combative debunking attacks on UFO information sharers is of purposeful
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design.
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Historical background of the hypothesis: In earlier days the FIDO UFO
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Echo was a place for unfettered informational exchange on topics of UFO's and
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their extraterrestrial personnel by persons interested in sharing and
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exchanging such information. Gradually, there has developed an increase in the
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number of persons whose main focus on the Echo is to attack (not rationally,
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respectfully criticize) others who seek to present UFO-related information.
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Furthermore, such attacks are not random. They are focussed at the UFO-related
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information which is most likely to undo the government cover-up. Furthermore,
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the debunking attackers have steadily escalated their intensity, rudeness, and
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nastiness of attacks over time. The above hypothesis would suggest that this is
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not accidental or random.
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Arguments in support of the above Hypothesis:
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1.) Nature of FIDO's UFO Echo. The UFO Echo represents one of the few
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uncensored links between UFO information enthusiasts on a nationwide, and even
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international scale. The American press, which has been reported to now be
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owned by 26 large corporations, treats UFO topics with the humorous disdain
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which has been the cornerstone of the "official" Government policy of dealing
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with the UFO subject since the Robertson report. The electronic media (radio,
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television networks) for the most part follow the same party line of silence or
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humorous, patronizing "coverage". Thus, a link like FIDO-UFO represents a rare
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resource for getting information about UFO's (and the Government Cover-Up)
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shared widely, and networking people who want theis information out in the
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public domain.
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Thus, FIDO-UFO represents a clear threat to the Intelligence agenda of
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perpetuating the Cover-Up and party-line that there is no evidence of UFO's or
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extraterrestrial visitation. Given that clear and present danger that FIDO-UFO
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represents to the Intelligence mission of Cover-Up, it would be unthinkable
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that the Intelligence agencies would idly sit by and do nothing while this
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uncensored networking goes on. Thus, it seems overwhelmingly likely that a plan
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to disrupt and reduce the effectiveness of the Echo would have been developed
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and put into action. For convenience, let's assume a name for the plan,
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"Project FIDO". What would be some of the elements of Project Fido?
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2.) Argument from COINTELPRO. Rather than idly specualate, we have evidence
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gained via Congressional investigations into the abuses that the FBI committed
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during the Sixties and Seventies, when FBI conducted undercover snooping,
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infiltration and disruption of activist organizations, including blatantly
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illegal acts, under a domestic surveiullance and action program known as
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COINTELPRO (for Counter-Intelligence Program). The FBI argued they were doing
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counter-intelligence because the activist groups were doing "intelligence",
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i.e., unearthing information about secret Government involvement overseas and
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at home. (Does this start to feel familiar?)
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COINTELPRO used various techniques to infiltrate and disrupt or eliminate
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targeted groups. These techniques included sending in "operatives" to groups
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who acted like part of the group, but whose actual purpose was to gather
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intelligence, create internal dissension, provoke acts which could then be used
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as a pretext to shut down the group, create divisions within the group, divert
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the groups attention away from its original purpose, and create such tensions
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and a climate of intimidation that many members of the group would leave in
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disgust, thus causing the group to fall apart. The infiltrators-provocateurs
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did even more heinous acts. But the point is established as to the general
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style and agenda of this questionable domestic "counter-intelligence". The
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Hypothesis support continues on the next message. - Rich Boylan
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When one examines the shift in tone and focus of the communication content
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of a substantial portion of FIDO-UFO over the past year,
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one cannot help but notice an increase in the hostile, combative approach of
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some of the participants. Futher, these attacks are not random. The
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professional debunkers have not chosen to go log on to the Skeptics Echo, but
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have instead intervened in the UFO Echo. Their attacks are seldom, if ever,
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directed at the occasional hapless soul who logs on here and presents a
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pedestrian UFO sighting, or even extraterrestrial contact narrative, unless
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that person brings persuasive evidence along with their story! Persuasive
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evidence is the key. Persuasive evidence is what Project FIDO and its handlers
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want to keep off the Echo, and failing that, they would be prepared to take
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this Echo out, by internal subversion or external means.
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3. Argument from PSY-OPS. A number of participants on this Echo have noticed a
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"chilling" and intimidating climate has settled in, which inhibits them from
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feeling like sharing their accounts of sightings or contact or sensitive
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information, because they fear being "jumped" by certain professional
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debunkers. Is this climate accidental? The Hypothesis would suggest not. That
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is not to say that every sorehead, excuse me, debunker on this Echo is an
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operative of a concerted effort to disrupt FIDO-UFO. Nor is it to suggest that
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the failure of measured, respectful discourse on this Echo by some is anything
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other than a reflection of personal defects of character which God has not
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removed. However, there is a pattern to the style with which certain attacks,
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disguised as "reasonable objections", are conducted which suggests an agenda
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other than the calm, reasoned search for truth. The attack style achieves
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several agenda at the same time: it might shut up the person seeking to share
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UFO information. It certainly will serve to intimidate not only that person,
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but others who might be considering posting their information on this echo, but
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now will think twice before doing so. And the attacks are designed to provoke a
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responsive attack from the information-sharer, thus reducing that person's
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estimate in the eyes of the other participants on this Echo. Further, the
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disruptors would tend to form a faction, and characterize others as another
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"faction", so as to create polarization within the Echo and thus achieve the
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Project FIDO objective of eliminating the effectiveness of this Echo as a safe
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place to exchange information.
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4.) Argument from band-width: Another PSY-OPS/COINTELPRO technique is to
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smother the information stream of the targeted group by introducing quantities
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of irrelevant data, or outright disinformation, so as to fatigue and daze the
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group by the shear volume of "information" introduced into the group's
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informational pool. Could this be said to be happening on this Echo?
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5.) Argument from multiple operatives. It would be unlikely for the
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Intelligence group tasked to Project FIDO to have only one "asset" infiltrated
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into the Echo. The old tag-team wrestling strategy is to send one person out,
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and when they have become too prominient, or gone too far, or just to vary the
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source of disruption so it seems to be coming from the membership generally, to
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have the person pull back for a while and let another "asset" become more
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active.
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Reprise: It is acknowledge that the above does not constitute
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overwhelming concrete evidence that Project FIDO exists and is in action here.
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However, the points raised above do strongly suggest to this member that we
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should give more careful consideration to the possibility that the Cover-Up
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operatives of the shadow government have not been ignoring the rather
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remarkable exchange of highly sensitive, and generally not available
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information on this echo. And past history has shown that they do not sit idly
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by while that happens. they intervene, as sophisticatedly or as strenuously as
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necessary, to achieve their objective of choking off the flow of "unauthorized"
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information on UFO's and related topics, "in the interest of National
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Security", of course).
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While I encourage the discussion of this hypothesis here, I also
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encourage members to notice who attacks it and how they attack it. the other
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side always leaves (unintended) clues. - Rich Boylan
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