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From: Francisco Lopez <d005734c@dcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 15:16:20 -0500 (EST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:39:56 -0500
Subject: Government Disinformation and Political Action


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   Government Disinformation and Political Action
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   I have encouraged the editor to include the following comments and
   observations from Tim Good=92s book Alien Update (Random House, 1993)
   because I think they strike at the very heart of the current problem.
   I think the current American political dilemma is indeed in crisis,
   and the solution to the governmental cover-up of UFO/ET phenomena will
   be in the halls of our constitutional democracy, properly exercised by
   our duly elected representatives. Congress and the people must reclaim
   this matter as it impacts the future of our people, our country, and
   the human race. We the people must decide our own future, and it must
   be done in the open and in the light of day. The time has come for the
   American people to actively participate in what is, without a doubt,
   the most important issue in our history.=97Robert O. Dean
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   On government disinformation: =93To reiterate, our task is not to gather
   enough evidence to prove off-world contact, but to end the denial of
   the evidence that is already readily available. Proof comes from
   evidence, and the evidence is all round us=97truckloads, boxcarloads and
   mountains of it. There is the UFO data collected since the late 1940s,
   including the unknown quantities known to exist in secret government
   files and warehouses; the historical and archaeological records dating
   back to prehistoric times; the common experience of mankind recorded
   in ancient religious scriptures; and what science has taught us about
   life in a matter of putting two and two together. The problem is, as
   in George Orwell=92s 1984, that we are labouring under a manipulative
   government policy designed to make two plus two equal five!
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   =93In public reports like the Air Force=92s =91Blue Book=92 and the=
 Condon
   Report, the US Government says UFOs are no big deal, they are no
   threat to national security=97just forget it. In secret, however, they
   are very concerned, as revealed by documents released under the
   Freedom of Information Act and recent books like New York Times
   investigative reporter Howard Blum=92s Out There. Blum exposes a covert
   =91UFO action group=92 in the Pentagon, and a cabal of Air Force
   intelligence spooks who recruited famed UFO writer William Moore to
   monitor the effects of hair-raising disinformation fed to a midwest
   UFO researcher [Paul Bennewitz] who was getting too close to secret
   doings at an air base. The bogus stories nearly drove the poor
   researcher mad.=94
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   On political action: =93This is not a problem that can be solved by
   further collections of UFO sightings. The denial syndrome began with a
   political decision; only through politics can it be brought to an end.
   UFO investigators should become political activists, because only a
   good, old-fashioned political campaign will end the government=92s
   policy of UFO secrecy. They could, for example, form =91truth squads=92=
 to
   follow the president around and to ask such embarrassing questions as,
   =91what do you know about secret UFO files, Mr President?=92 and =91Why=
 the
   cover-up?=92 That=92s the way to get on the evening news!
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   =93Abductees should do what other aggrieved groups have done with great
   success: form a lobbying group. Imagine bus-loads of abductees
   descending on Capital Hill to lobby for an investigation of the alien
   abduction syndrome and an end to UFO secrecy. The fact that they are a
   relatively small group of victims should not deter them. The highly
   successful =91Mothers Against Drunk Driving=92 (MADD) began with only one
   determined lady.=94
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   Timothy Good is also the author of Above Top Secret (William Morrow,
   1988) and Alien Contact (William Morrow, 1991).
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