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behind the scenes of UFO cover-up live

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part 3 by Charles Lear in last week's

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blog we looked at evidence that seems to

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support the idea that self-proclaimed

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disinformation agent Richard Doty who

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was a special agent with the Air Force

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office of special investigations was

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acting on his own we also looked at

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evidence that seems to support the idea

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that William Moore an author and UFO

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researcher who confessed to being in a

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partnership with Dodie was driven by the

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desire to make some money from the

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information Dodie was giving him in

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exchange for his cooperation together

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they put many UFO researchers into a

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state of confusion we ended with the

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introduction of the Majestic 12 papers

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into the UFO community in January 1985

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Jamie sandera a friend of Morse who

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would later appear in several UFO

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documentaries listed as self documentary

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filmmaker and self-investigative

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reporter and was only credit on IMBD as

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a profession Movie Maker is as video for

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the movie The Devil's Reign received an

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envelope in the mail with an Albuquerque

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postmark inside was a roll of film on

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the film were images of what has become

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known as the Eisenhower briefing

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document there was also a letter from

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Harry Truman the James Forrestal with

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Truman's signature on it the total

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number of pages was eight the pages of

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the EBD are all stamped top secret magic

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Eyes Only the front page has the title

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briefing document operation Majestic 12

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prepared for president-elect Dwight D

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Eisenhower and the date 10 November 1952

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a warning on the bottom states that Eyes

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Only access is strictly limited to those

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possessing Majestic 12 clearance level

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the second page lists the names to the

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members of The Majestic 12 group

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included among the 12 names given are

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Roscoe H hillencoder Dr vannavar Bush

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and Dr Donald Menzel and astrophysicist

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renowned for being a UFO debunker page 3

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begins with a description of Kenneth

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Arnold's June 24 1947 sighting then

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there is a description of a recovery

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operation located approximately 75 miles

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Northwest of Roswell Army Air Base where

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wreckage and four alien bodies were

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recovered the documents were released to

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the Press by more on May 28 1986 and

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there were stories about them in the New

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York Times and Washington Post

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researchers who were familiar with more

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such as Brad Sparks Barry Greenwood and

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Robert Hastings were skeptical and have

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written extensively about their doubts

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and investigations into the authenticity

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of the documents and the validity of

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Moore's claims Philip class publisher of

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skeptic CFO newsletter wrote a concise

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summation in the March 1997 issue that

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tells the story of the efforts of

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researchers to get to the truth class

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takes the position that the documents

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were faked as do Greenwood Sparks and

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tastings and that more was in on it

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according to class Moore told Sparks on

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April 16 1983 that he and Stanton

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Friedman had run into a dead end in

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trying to find out who might have been

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involved in the recovery of the Roswell

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debris and subsequent later events Moore

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made the suggestion to Sparks that fake

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government documents could be created

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that might induce people to come forward

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Sparks called Friedman and was shocked

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to find that Friedman was for the idea

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class quotes from the 1994 book The

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Truth About the UFO crash at Roswell by

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Kevin Randall and Don Schmidt according

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to Friedman among others Moore had

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suggested as early as 1982 that he

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wanted to create Roswell documents

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thinking it might open doors that were

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closed class suggests that Dodie might

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have inspired Moore's idea he then

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provides information on Dodie according

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to him Dodie was assigned to work in

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counterintelligence at a West German afo

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OSI post and was dismissed from afosi

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within two years for turning in bogus

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claims about his activities he served at

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Kirtland Air Force Base as the manager

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of the mess hall for non-commissioned

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officers for the last two years before

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his retirement according to class Moore

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first showed the Majestic 12 documents

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to researcher Lee Graham Graham made

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foyer requests where he mentioned

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Majestic 12 and listed the members of

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the group Graham's habit of sharing his

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foia letters with his fellow researchers

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got rumors going about the existence of

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mj-12 and that there was documentation

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showing that there really was a flying

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saucer recovered at Roswell the first

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person to write about mj-12 was Barry

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Greenwood Greenwood talked to Graham and

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then published the list of mj-12 members

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in the December 1985 issue of Just Cause

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along with a biography for each of them

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class brings up what he suspects was

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Moore's plan for exploiting the mj-12

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papers more published Snippets of

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information from the papers in his

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newsletter focus and told readers it

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came from high-level sources in

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intelligence the problem was that once

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the papers were finally revealed to his

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fellow researchers and the media because

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Moore was the obvious beneficiary in

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terms of Book Sales speaking fees and

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appearances this would arouse suspicion

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that Moore had a hand in the creation of

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the documents if they were discovered to

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have been host class wrote that a

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solution to this problem came when Moore

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met British UFO researcher Timothy good

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in May of 1986 Moore made an arrangement

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with good that good could publish the

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papers in his book Above Top Secret that

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was scheduled to be put out in July

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1987. Not only would this make it look

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like both Moore and good got the

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documents independently from a source or

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sources in the intelligence Community

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the documents would receive immediate

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international coverage Warren Friedman

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were scheduled to speak on June 14 1987

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at the 24th annual UFO conference

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sponsored by more in Burbank California

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and it was announced that they would

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reveal some very startling material

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unfortunately for them Goods publisher

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decided to hold a press conference on

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May 29th of that year and feature the

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book's mj-12 documents good informed

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more of his Publisher's plans and more

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had to scramble to release his copies

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first he got them to the media on May

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28th just one day before the British

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press conference class is Infamous among

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UFO researchers as an arch to Bunker

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however in this case his conclusions are

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supported by the writings of Sparks

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Greenwood and Hastings with Hastings

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being the only one of the three

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convinced that there was an official U.S

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Air Force disinformation program

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involved in promoting the mj-12 story in

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his essay mj-12 The hoax that quickly

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became a disinformation operation

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Hastings wrote this while Greenwood and

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Randall believe that a simple hoax

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designed to make make money was

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perpetrated by researcher Bill Moore and

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U.S Air Force office of special

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investigations special agent Richard

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Doty I contend the available evidence

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strongly suggests that the mj-12 fraud

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while originating as a hoax was quickly

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co-opted by afosi and perhaps other

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intelligence groups as a means to

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disinform misdirect ufologists and the

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public at large regarding the nature and

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extent of the U.S government's

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involvement with the UFO phenomenon next

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