Furiously scratching in the sand, "Amanda Angelika"
<manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote:

In news:44c9704a.707367@nntp.charter.net,
Edgar Wolphe <SpamTrap@spamcop.com> typed:

So what 'n hell was Jessie thinking when he brought the debris of the
extraterrestial space ship home to show off to his wife and kid?

One of the many questions regarding Roswell that has never been
answered.  I wonder of Jessie Jr can...

Well I would think if one discovered unequivocal evidence ETs exist and have
definitely visited the Earth you would want to tell someone. 

Military people tell _only_ their superior officers, NOT their wife
and kid.  The laws of secrecy and security are _absolute_ on this-
there is no wiggle room. Major Jessie Marcel, an Intelligence Officer
in the Army Air Force, knew this very, very well.

So what can we deduce?  We can deduce that in 1947, Marcel knew what
he found was NOT something "not of this world", but simply what he
thought was the solution to the two week old press sensation- the
"Flying Disk".  That would not be a National Security question and so
he felt he was was free to show it off to the family.  The very fact
that he was not repremanded for a gross lapse in Basic Security 101 is
proof of this.

The
implications are fairly Earth shattering and much more so in 1947 and would
have a profound effect on an individual, giving a whole different
perspective on one's place in the Universe. 

Given the atmosphere in 1947... How so?

I don't think it would be
possible to keep such things a national secret, because for anyone with half
a brain the effect is going to be deeply personal, and have nothing to do
with National Security or loyalties to an employer.

Ahh...  then you are not an advocate for the Great Conspiracy-  and
that the Roswell remains are locked up in Hanger 18?  (or was that
Area 51)

Of course not all people working in intelligence are going to come out in
public, but I think one would expect a proportion of intelligence workers
will. And indeed a fair proportion have.

The U.S. Department of Defense is not quite so cavalier about the
subject of the Oath of Secrecy.  If someone in intelligence were to
break his oath of secrecy, specially on a very sensitive subject that
was still under very intense security wraps, the penalties can be
extremely severe; ranging from incarceration to death. 



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written directly, based on first hand understanding, as I have,
including Jesus of Nazareth.
  --Raymond Ronald Karczewski