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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 01:13:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Project 1947 - Robert Dean

> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:57:55 -0700
> From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
> Subject: Robert Dean
> To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

> Greeting List Members,

>     To deal with Dean as a creditable person one most consider that he is
> telling us about a Top Secret document that he took an oath to safeguard.
> It was a "draftee's oath."  He was a professional.  It wasn't a little
> oath.  And Dean himself talks about how the government is flushing the
> Constitution of the United States down the toilet.  He has done the same
> to his oath to protect and defend the Constitution if what he says is
> true.

>    So we are left with two possibilities:  Dean is an oath-breaker or a
> liar. In either case not a very creditable person.

This opinion brings out the dichotomy in views on whether truth should be
withheld from the masses for their better good, supposedly, or whether it
should be allowed to come out.  Of course there's much to be said on both
sides, but I think the present course is best -- to have both go on at the
same time.

That is, it does no good to withhold the truth completely, if you know
that eventually it must come out, at which time the full shock of it all
would hit a totally unprepared populace and generate the very panic and
chaos that the withholders wish to avoid.  So, thanks to those few who
have the courage to violate their security oaths and/or face up to
resulting ridicule and debunkery for having told of their UFO sightings
and/or experiences, a substantial fraction of the populace *is* informed
of the alien presence -- those whose belief systems can accept the
possibility and who have some curiosity about it all.  But if the full
truth had come out all at once in 1947 or even 1987, I think the shock and
panic would have been enormous.  Hopefully it would be much less by now,
especially within the younger generations.

If Bob Dean has broken an oath in telling of what he learned while at
SHAPE in NATO, it does not at all mean he is not credible.  What he has
told us is credible in light of the known UFO phenomenon coming from many
other sources. If no one from the NATO offices had broken their oath and
come forward to tell the truth, this itself would be used as evidence of
sorts against UFOs by debunkers who use the argument of silence.  Each
person in such a position as Bob Dean's has to decide for himself whether
the truths being withheld are more important for interested segments of
the public to know than is the maintenance of an oath taken at a time when
it could not be imagined what the future would bring.  I feel that ufology
should favor the baring (not barring) of the truth, since there are plenty
of others around who are busy tending to the preservation of the status
quo.

I myself find Bob Dean credible since I know him.  He is no Lee Shargel.
But this does not mean I agree with him on all aspects of the UFO
phenomenon.

Jim Deardorff