In article <dwulb.24895$cJ5.3910@www.newsranger.com>, Sir Arthur C.B.E.
Wholeflaffers A.S.A. says...

MAYNARD:  One might ask, with a career that includes a background in
counterintelligence for both military purposes and drug trafficking, 'how did
you become involved in UFOs?'

My involvement was probably more happenstance than anything else. I became
involved while overseas in Germany, Turkey and Korea. These areas were not noted
for a lot of UFO activity. I was primarily afforded the opportunity to
investigate peripherally a few incidents and implement disinformation or
misinformation programs to divert attention away from the military and toward
the paranormal and/or UFO [followers] in those areas.  However, a point I never
revealed to the military, was that my grandmother brought me up believing that
UFOs existed.

Regardless of that point, I was still a staunch conservative (politically) and
placed my military duties ahead of my beliefs. I had a 'country, duty, and
honor'-type attitude. I believed that because of my dedication, and what
appeared to be naivety on my part, my military superiors did not question my
actions when it came to debunking UFO sightings.  However, I became very
intrigued as to why UFOs were not to become public knowledge and, that they
(the government) preferred that any UFO information for public consumption stay
in the realm of the paranormal and/or the unreliable UFO resources.

It took me several years to figure out that this blatant disregard for public
opinion was a plan designed to keep and maintain the pressure of proof on
certain elements of our society.

The plan was basically to place the burden of proof on the UFO researchers and
to steer the public away from the military organizations that were directly
involved in UFO research. In this plan I deduced that the military was using the
media to keep these UFO researchers from making too much of the issue by having
the media brand them as kooks, weird, paranoid and unbelievable; better yet, by
having people who go around chasing after shadows in a belief that UFOs are real
and the government is hiding something.

To date, this plan has worked well above average, and the general public still
has an opinion that follows what ever the media tells them.

SURFING:  Can you tell me about the pivotal point at which you decided to move
out of the realm of disinformation in the UFO field and into the belief that
disclosure was needed? How did you come to the decision that your beliefs should
take precedence over your military duties?

MAYNARD:  Pivotal point! It was more of a period of enlightenment, from
disinformation to disclosure. I do not believe that there was any one point that
I can say: 'this was the day and/or the hour.' I can tell you the exact day and
hour I quit smoking, or when I became a Christian, but disclosure was, and is,
something entirely different. It was more of an attitude change on my part.

If you want to pin it down to when it started to happen, I guess it was in the
early 1970's while I was in Germany. It was also the time of the famous LA Times
publishing of the Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg.   I was in charge of a
US/NATO classified repository and the Pentagon Papers caused me to inventory
everything in the repository, right down to the last page. Part of the Ellsberg
papers were classified Top Secret Cosmic, which is a NATO classification. Since
I was at an air defense site, that particular document was in my repository, so
we had to account for everything. This caused my office an untold amount of work
inventorying all the documents. It was a page-by-page inventory.

It was during that time that I realized just how much the government was hiding
under its classification and disclosure blanket. Even newspaper reports that had
become part of the file were being classified. It appeared to me that they
literally did not want anyone to know what they knew. I guess curiosity got the
best of me at that point. After that incident, I started to pay serious
attention to what was going on, particularly when it came to the classification
of documents. I, more or less, became an official source to ask about
classifying documents, which meant full research of the documents surrounding
the one being classified.

They say that hindsight has 20/20 vision. I could have turned illegal at that
point and made copies of the pages pertaining to UFO incidents. However, my
security oath and duty to country stopped me from going that extra measure to
the illegal. I have to tell you I seriously thought about it; however, I could
not come to the point of making copies of any particular pages relating to UFO
sightings and other encounters. I guess I was too much of a Boy Scout and I
detested the thought of going to prison. Ah, yup, I am a big chicken when it
comes to that.

The progression of this change in attitude and thoughts continued. While I was
stationed in Turkey I finally came to the conclusion that disclosure was needed.
It took about 6 years to get to this point. It was also the time when I had
become a Christian and was really having turmoil within myself as to which way
to take a disclosure program and/or to finish my military career. I really had
no means by which to accomplish this without literally going to jail. Call it
providence, or whatever, upon leaving Turkey I was assigned to DIA headquarters
in the Pentagon. At that point I realized that it might be best to wait and see
what else I could learn about UFOs, what the government was doing with the
information and why they considered UFOs a threat to public knowledge.

That day was probably the day I made up my mind that something had to be done,
and that I was being afforded the opportunity to gain information that the
public does not have, and probably will never have, without disclosure.
Actually, I still have difficulty with stepping out and telling what I know, but
I also firmly believe that it is the time for disclosure. Full disclosure!

Patty agreed with this post, but he is too timid to admit it!!
Thankx PaTTy!