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UFOs were left to the private

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investigators by Charles Lear on

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December 17 1969 the Air Force issued a

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press release through the office of

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assistant Secretary of Defense public

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affairs announcing the termination of

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the Air Force's UFO investigation

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Project Blue Book with the end of

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Project Blue Book UFO investigation was

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left to private organizations and the

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two most prominent at the time were the

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aerial phenomena research organization

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run by Jim and Carl Lorenson and the

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national investigations committee on

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aerial phenomena directed by Major

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Donald E Kehoe U.S Marine Corps retired

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besides the challenge of now being the

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two main places to turn to for Citizens

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wanting to make UFO reports both groups

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were about to face some major changes in

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their organizational structures that

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would lead to the demise of one and

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create a major rival for the other in

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the July 1969 Issue Number 20 of Skylake

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a publication started in September 1960

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9 by Missouri residents John Coons Norma

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short and Ted Phillips Jr it has

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announced that Skylock is now the

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official publication of the Midwest UFO

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Network the magazine staff at this point

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is listed as Norma short Ted Phillips Jr

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John schussler Walter Andrus and Lucius

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Farish schuessler is described as an

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opera consultant and Andrus is

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co-chairman of Illinois section apro and

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Illinois state director of the Midwest

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UFO Network there is a description of

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the group's formation process and it is

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mentioned that the group would be

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affiliated with apro but not controlled

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by afro through a dotted line

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relationship the affiliation wouldn't

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last long according to a brief history

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of mufon written by John schussler the

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appro management reacted to the

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government's words shutting down Project

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Blue Book by reinforcing their

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centralized management approach one can

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see a hint of this in the July August

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1969 April bulletin in an article on

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page H2 headlined field investigators

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Network the reader is told this once the

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field investigator's network is running

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smoothly apra will notify the

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investigator closest to the scene of a

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UFO incident and receive a prompt and

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accurate report according to schustler

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Andrus was getting a flow of reports and

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needed to train investigators on his own

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and oversee investigations in his own

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backyard Andrus pled his case to apro

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but they became more determined that the

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Midwest contingent was a hindrance

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rather than a help to abro in response

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address contacted investigators from

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Wisconsin Illinois Kansas and Missouri

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and held a meeting on May 31

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1969. it was there that Alan R Aki an

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apro consultant and associate professor

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of chemistry at Wisconsin University

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proposed the creation of the Midwest UFO

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Network the Midwest UFO Network became

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the mutual UFO Network in 1973 and

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continues under that name as of of this

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writing as mufon grew so did a sense of

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rivalry between that group and afro this

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came to a head during the 1980 cash

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Landrum case Kirk Collins wrote about

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this in a blog headlined mufon vs afro

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allegations accusations and counter

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charges the cash Landrum UFO case

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backstage drama posted on his site blue

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blurry limes there he provides links to

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documents that give an indication as to

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how it odds the two groups have become

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in a letter dated July 27 1982 written

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by Carl Lorenson to Robert Barrow she

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calls Andrus a first-rate liar she then

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adds this he is almost single-handedly

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responsible for the mongrelization of

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UFO research with his promoting of P

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brains who do its bidding and add names

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to his list of state directors Etc Ad

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nauseam Donald E Keo was removed as

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director of nycap in 1969. the

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organization died a slow death after

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that and there has been speculation that

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the CIA had a hand in it Todd zachelle

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wrote about the CIA nycop Connection in

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the January 1979 issue of just cause the

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newsletter put out by citizens against

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UFO secrecy nycap was incorporated in

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1956 and two men's a shell ardues were

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covert CIA operatives were put into

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chair positions within the organization

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one of these men was Bernard J.O

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Carvalho was made the chairman of

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nycap's membership committee according

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to Zay shell Carvalho worked as a

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frontman for companies secretly run by

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the CIA the other was count Nicholas de

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Roquefort who has made Vice chairman of

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nicap according to zaychel De Roquefort

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worked with the cia's psychological

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warfare staff zaychel tells the reader

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there is more than ample evidence to

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conclusively establish both the

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Roquefort and Carvalho or at least

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during certain periods of their lives

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covert employees of the Central

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Intelligence Agency the director of

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night for its first year was T Townsend

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brown brown was replaced by Kehoe at the

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end of 1956 and Carvalho and de

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Roquefort left shortly thereafter Keo

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had been a classmate of vice admiral

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Roscoe hillencoder U.S Navy retired at

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the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland

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and he got Helen cutter to agree to sit

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on nikap's Board of Governors

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hillencoder was the first director of

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the CIA so this is a definite connection

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between the CIA and nicap it doesn't

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seem as if Helen cutter was under any

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direct influence by the CIA while he was

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with niccat Hill encoders publicly

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stated beliefs aligned with those of

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Kehoe and nycap and he openly accused

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the air force of misleading the American

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public when it came to UFOs and urged

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action by Congress to reduce the danger

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from secrecy in 1962 hillencoder seems

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to have had a change of heart that year

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he resigned from the board in the midst

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of kehoe's efforts to get Congress to

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hold open hearings on UFOs and the Air

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Force's handling of the pro problem in

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his letter of resignation Helen coder

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wrote The Air Force cannot do more under

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the circumstances and I believe we

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should not continue to criticize their

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investigations seychell addresses the

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presence on the board at the time of his

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writing of Colonel Joseph Bryan III U.S

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Air Force retired whom he describes as

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the founder and original chief of the

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cia's psychological warfare staff

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1947-1953 Seychelles says that during

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interviews he held with Brian Brian

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confirmed his CIA connections Brian

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asked that his position as a covert CIA

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operative not be made public and denied

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having any connection or communication

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with the agency while he sat on nycap's

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board when it was suggested to Brian the

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two CIA covert agents had penetrated

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nycap at its very beginning Brian

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replied there's nothing to penetrate

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about it was all overt the whole thing

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after Keo was removed as director he was

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kicked upstairs and moved to the board

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Jack Acuff took over a cuff had been the

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head of the Society of photographic

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scientists and Engineers which according

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to say shell have been the target of

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frequent KGB spying attempts due to the

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fact that many of its members were CIA

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photoanalysts Seychelles says that Acuff

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had been approached by Soviet agents on

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several occasions and reported this to

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the FBI he began meeting with the

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Soviets at the behest of the FBI acting

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in effect as a covert agent another

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suspected CIA affiliate in the nicap

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organization was G Stuart Nixon who in

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1973 was assistant to akov say shell

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references a document from the CIA where

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an unnamed person indicates some

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familiarity with G Stuart Nixon seychell

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also points out that daily Nica blogs

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reflect that Nixon met with several past

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and present then CIA employees on a

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frequent basis at the time of

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seychelle's writing nycap was withering

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and close to death as an organization

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and Acuff had been replaced by Alan C

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Hall a retired CIA employee living in

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Bethesda seychell concludes this article

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by bringing up the theory that the CIA

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had purposely destroyed the leading

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anti-secrety organization of the 1960s

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and stopped short of agreeing with this

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this possibility was debated online by

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nycap insiders including Fran Ridge

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Gordon lore and Jan Aldridge as recently

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as 2018 and they were unable to agree on

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whether it was the CIA or just poor

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management that killed nycap the CIA

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nycap connection was looked into deeply

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by Jack Brewer in his 2021 book Wayward

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sons nycap in the IC Brewer did

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extensive research and filed foia

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requests and was unable to positively

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identify any of the suspected CIA covert

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agents as such though the evidence he

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presents appears convincing through or

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leans towards the idea that the CIA

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helped set up the organization and used

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it as an asset for various purposes

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including propaganda leak detection and

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money laundering and then put an end to

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it when it outlived its usefulness he

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likes a shell stopped short of reaching

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a final conclusion so the question of

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whether or not the CIA had a hand in

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nikap's beginning and end remains an

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