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From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:48:25 -0800 |
[From alt.conspiracy.area51 via akazero@pe.net] From: Mike D Smith <smitty07@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 Subject: Popular Mechanics and Agent Campbell Clash Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:40:48 GMT The August issue of Popular Mechanics has all of the Letters to the Editor on page eight. All of the letters are reader's responses about the previous issue by Jim Wilson's saying that Area 51 had moved. Our favorite and most well known disinformation Agent Campbell had typed: Nearly everything mentioned in your article about Area 51 is false. There is no obvious change in activity here. The same number of workers park at the Janet terminal. There are no locked gates anywhere, except for remote dirt roads that no one uses and that always have been locked. The Area 6413 mentioned is an airspace, not a ground area. I looked up R-6134 on a recent air chart. It isn't even restricted, except by 48-hour NOTAM (advanced notice to pilots). In other words, before you could launch or land a secret craft there, you would have to tell the world, "Hey, we're going to use this airspace in two days." Is that any way to run a secret base? The Editor's Reply: Glenn Campbell has a vested interest in posing as the only "expert" on Area 51. He has been making a living for years by selling his "expertise" to any one willing to pay for it, including us. He was an advisor to PM for an earlier Area 51 story. We stand by the information in our June cover story. Do I detect some friction between Popular Mechanics and Agent Campbell? I thought that Agent Campbell was doing a public service for free to those that came to explore the Groom border. I seem to remember Campbell slamin' someone earlier, for giving $99.00 tours to visit Rachel and the base border. How much did Agent Campbell charge Popular Mechanics for his "expertise" ? The reader's replies where all over the place. Some claimed that PM and all that engage in border snooping should be arrested for spying. Guy Shelemy response seemed the most informed with: I will never buy an issue of Popular Mechanics again. I simply will not hand over my hard-earned money to the spoon fed government misinformation regarding the activities of Area 51. It's just a matter of time before the public's growing skepticism and mistrust of government misinformation turns on you. And finally, for those that have fun with numbers, Dudley Stouch wrote: The new Area 51 at Area 6413 goosed my curiosity. I activated my version of the world's greatest computer-my brain- and guess what? 64 minus 13 equals...well, you figure it out. Apparently, some old habits are hard to break, especially in our " Man From Uncle" world. Smitty =================================================================== FROM GLENN: I have never written any letter-to-the-editor to Popular Mechanics. (It didn't seem productive.) The text appears to be an edited version of a message I wrote on this mailing list. I don't get Popular Mechanics, so I don't know if this is exactly what was printed, but if it is, it is a low shot. I don't "sell" my expertise to anyone. When I helped Abe Dane of Popular Mechanics with their earlier story, I asked no money and received none. I had reservations: I thought their story was a rip-off of Popular Science, but when a journalist calls, I answer questions and generally do what they ask. In this case, I dropped Dane to Freedom Ridge for a "secret" visit there. The resulting cover story was a harmless article on UFOs and Area 51. Now that courtesy has come back to bite me when I publically criticized the later article. I do not make my living by selling my Area 51 expertise. I do not give tours to tourists, and talking to journalists usually pays nothing. How else would I make money here? I make my living from my prior investments and from the thin business of bookselling. The lesson is: Don't deal with trash media, even if their reporters seem pleasant at the time. -- GC
Index: Green River Launch Complex Index: Criticism of Glenn Campbell
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Created: Aug 23, 1997