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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:57:13 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:57:13 -0400
Subject: Forged Reuters Dispatch Smears UFO Luminaries




Source: Sightings Homepage

http://www.sightings.com/ufo/smear.htm


Forged Reuters Dispatch Smears UFO Luminaries Rense, Lindemann,
& Campbell

by Keith Woodard <qwoodard@worldnet.att.net> 8-23-98

Early this morning, Phoenix-based UFO journalist Doc Barry
posted this message to the I_UFO Internet mailing list -

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From: Doc Barry <authority@webtv.net
Subject: IUFO: Bogus Reuters News Story
Date: Sunday, August 23, 1998 12:28 AM
IUFO Mailing List

A false story, supposedly a Reuters release is being circulated
on the internet. This story originated on the ACC Images
bulletin board, posted by someone named "Kitty".

The story is a smear against Glenn Campbell, Jeff Rense, and
Michael Lindemann, accusing them of being contractors for
government agencies.

A thorough search of Reuters dispatches will show that there is
no such Reuters story. It is a false item.

This deliberate plant of false information, showing a bogus wire
service heading, is a glaring example of disinformation and
libel on the internet.

The three people libeled are among the most truthful reporters
of UFO and government cover-up information found on the internet
and radio dial.

Anyone who circulates such lies about people known for their
integrity should be punished.

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As it happens, Steven L. Wilson, Sr., head director of UFO Sky
Searchers International, had, only minutes before, posted that
very article (exactly as it appeared on the ACC bulletin board)
to I_UFO:

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From: Ndunlks@aol.com To: Subject: IUFO: [paranormal-l] Reuters
News Date: Saturday, August 22, 1998 11:59 PM IUFO Mailing List

REUTERS NEWS

Air Force ADMITs that 'Area 51' Glen Campbell, Mike Linderman
and Show Host Jeff Rense are 'Government Contractors'

Posted by Kitty on Friday, 21 August 1998, at 11:55 p.m. REUTERS
NEWS SERVICE (L O N D O N) 8:30 GMT August 21, 1998

In a brief interview with paranormal reporter Pierre Stahl of
Germany's STERN MAGAZINE, Captain Paul Scott Lewis, US Navy, and
head of Intelligence Operations for the United States Space
Command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, admitted that the US Air Force has been
'deliberately' misleading the public for some time about the
existence and intelligent control of so-called Unidentified
Flying Objects (UFOs). Captain Lewis, among other startling
admissions, identified that the Air Force had maintained a 'Duty
Cover' operation for Nellis Air Force base, where special flying
craft of the United States Military were 'hidden' behind
intelligence operations intended to make these advanced
so-called 'Warfighter Aircraft' look like Flying Saucers. Among
those named in the deception: Glen Campbell, operator of the
'Area 51 Information Center', and one Michael Linderman, who
writes a popular alternative newsletter about UFOS called 'CNI
News'. Lewis also identified Radio Show Host Jeff Rense, who he
indicated was employed by a small National Security group
assigned to Peterson Air Force Base, which operates the 'Orbit 7
Network', a phony Radio Network which was organized to plant
stories into the Civilian Broadcast Channels. When asked why he
had decided to publicize these obviously sensitive matters,
Captain Lewis cited recent disagreements between himself and
General Howell Estes, head of the United States Space Command,
over Public Policy Captain Lewis believes these Covert
Operations appear to violate, leading to his decision to leave
the United States Space Command and return to the United States
Navy. Lewis also indicated that the Air Force and the United
Space Command were 'failing to disclose' the true nature of
actual Flying Disk Spacecraft which have visited Earth during
the modern era, and while refusing to admit or deny the
existence, indicated that President Clinton may not have been
telling the whole truth, when he denied that the United States
Department of Defense had captured an alien spacecraft. Captain
Lewis's credentials and curriculum vitae are remarkably
impressive for so outspoken a critic of the Air Force's
policies. After a lengthy career at Fleet Intelligence Center in
the US Navy ADP Section, From January 1978 until June 1983 CAPT
Lewis served two consecutive Norfolk, VA tours: first, at Fleet
Intelligence Center Europe and Atlantic where he served as Chief
of the ADP section supporting production of the Naval
Intelligence Processing System; then at United States Commander
in Chief Atlantic where he stood up the mission planning center
for the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile. Next CAPT Lewis served as
Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence on the
Commander Sixth Fleet staff and supported multiple operations in
the Mediterranean littoral. In 1985 he attended the Naval
Command and Staff College in Newport, RI, where he earned a
master of arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies
and another MA in International Relations from Salve Regina
College also in Newport, RI. He entered defense attache training
in June 1986 followed by an assignment as an Assistant Naval
Attache from January 1987 until January 1990 at USDAO Rome,
Italy. From January 1990 until March 1992, CAPT Lewis served as
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence and as Space and
Electronic Warfare Coordinator for the Commander, Carrier Group
Six, embarked in USS Forrestal (CV 59). This operational tour
was followed by four years of duty at two Washington, DC area
commands; the first being with Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Command as acting program manager for the Navy Tactical Command
System/Afloat; then at Defense Information Systems Agency as
Chief, C4I Engineering Management supporting initial deployment
of the Global Command and Control System. From there, CAPT Lewis
assumed his present duty assignment in August 1997 and currently
serves as the Director of Intelligence for NORAD and USSPACECO.
CAPT Lewis is married to the former Tonya Lanham, from
Owensboro, KY, and they have four children.

(c) Copyright 1998 Reuters News Service. All Rights Reserved.

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A clue to what may underlie this rather clumsy forgery can be
found in the following exchange, which took place the 12th of
this month on Jeff Rense's program "Sightings on the Radio."

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Michael Lindemann: ... American Computer Company was making an
enormous and rather aggravating splash on the airwaves and on
the Internet for a long, long time, with one outlandish claim
after another. Now it turns out that American Computer Company
has decided that they cannot release their transcapacitor, their
allegedly amazing new device derived from alien technology...
they cannot release it, they cannot release any products related
to it, because to do so might be in violation of a 1967 outer
space treaty which apparently... prohibits any private party
from profiting from materials received from outer space.... This
is a truly astonishing gambit on ACC's part. It shows that
whoever writes their stuff has not lost his imagination.

Jeff Rense: Oh, it's a brilliant out, as they say.

Michael Lindemann: As they say. But, it reeks of livestock
exhaust....

<snip>

Michael Lindemann: I think it is fair to say, now that we have
some perceptive on this, Jeff, now that we can look back several
months on the last major appearance of Mr. Jack on your program,
I think it is fair to say, that whether by design or
serendipity, you really silenced that whole operation. And, I
don't know if our listeners are sad to see the circus end, but
that was a master stroke, in a way, and, of course, it relied
heavily on the call from the lady whose name I forget... [Edith
- KW]

Jeff Rense: Well, I think we really need to be sure that our
listeners understand that there was no design on my part to
orchestrate, in any way shape or form, what transpired on that
program. That is cast in stone. What happened there was largely
spontaneous, it was certainly an elective response on the part
of Mr. Shulman, it was not my desire for any of this to
transpire. However, I simply set the table -- the manners of the
invitees are their own

Michael Lindemann: Well, indeed, indeed. And it strikes me,
frankly, as somewhat astonishing that we haven't heard, really,
much at all from ACC since that very night.

Jeff Rense: Well I think it's sensible that they would take a
rather low road [sic] for a bit and let the dust settle.

Michael Lindemann: Well, it seems they have. But now they've
come up with something else for us to be amused by.

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What exactly did "transpire" on that fateful program? You can
listen in on the fireworks by pointing your browser to:

http://www.audionet.com/shows/endoftheline/archive.stm

and clicking on the May 1, 1998 program. Until then, of course,
Jack Shulman had been a frequent guest on "Sightings."

Edith's call begins 29 minutes, 45 seconds into the program.

If you do listen, you'll discover that the episode is related to
Glenn Campbell's dispute with ACC, which he chronicles at these
URL's"

http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/mar/d13-001.shtml

http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/mar/d14-001.shtml

http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/mar/d17-002.shtml

http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/mar/d21-001.shtml

http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/mar/d23-001.shtml


I was first tipped off to what I consider ACC's true colors by
this rather insightful posting of I_UFO's Stuart Bonzdulsa.

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Subj: Re: IUFO: ACC/Bell Labs Controversy Update Date: 97-11-01
23:48:15 EST From: Bonzdulsa@aol.com Sender:
iufo-approval@world.std.com Reply-to: iufo@world.std.com To:
iufo@world.std.com

- SearchNet's IUFO Mailing List

In a message dated 97-11-01 22:16:09 EST, Doc wrote:

<< American Computer Company has updated its page on the
controversy as of Oct. 31, 1997. Included below if you have
interest. --- Doc in Phoenix

---------- http://www.american-computer.com/roswell.htm

Yeah, I did. I looked at the site, and then did what I
customarily do and looked at the HTML source code. And this is
what I found:

<HEAD <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="computer, pc,
personal, software,hardware,web, ibm, monitor, internet, adult,
entertainment, modem, disk, floppy, display, crt,microsoft,
windows, nt, unix, security, cable, access, sex, supercomputer,
warranty, video, audio, speakers, keyboard, mouse, lotus, sql,
server, symantec,act, electronic, pad, control, download,
graphic, gif, jpg, mpg, author, html,president, police,
television, tv, radio, conference, chat, talk, listen, push,rub,
lick, tile, floor, paint, carpet, door, desk, desktop, light,
government,corporate, marketing, sales, service, website, www,
domain, internic, index,database, manager, employment, job,
jobs, opinion, ufo, alien, ufology, discount,trade, exchange,
sexual, erotic, USA, China, Canada, Mexico, Latin,
America,North, South, East, West, Europe, Asia, Russia, Africa,
Middle, East,Pacific ,Australia, Artic, Antartic"

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="American Computer Company,
headquartered inCranford, New Jersey, the original designer of
the popular PC architecture,manufactures PCs, LANS and Servers
in the USA with 5 Year Standard Warranty."

Pay close attention to the META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT=
statement in the HTML. This page is geared to attract folks
attention to their company. Why would a computer hardware firm
post keywords on their homepage that say: adult, entertainment,
sex, push, rub, lick, sexual, erotic, download ....yada yada
yada (not to mention UFO ufology and alien)?

This is the poor man's way of ensuring multiple hits on his
internet site when someone searches on those keywords from a
search engine such as Webcrawler, Lycos, or Altavista.

Sure makes me wonder what the ulterior motive behind this page
is. This page reminds me of a carnival barker hawking his goods.
And this,

To me, makes the whole story suspect. The LAST thing someone
that is trying to bring out the truth would do is sully it up
with cheap associations such as this. If these folks are
legitimate, they have made a very serious judgement error by
advertising their site in this manner. Most corporations would
never stoop to this puerile level of advertisement.

Sorry, but I am becoming pretty disenchanted with this story
right about now.

Regards, - Stuart

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While, of course, proving nothing, Bonz's observation struck me
as an indication of the ethical stuff Shulman was made of. Since
then, I haven't seen anything to counter that impression.

I_UFO is, incidentally, temporarily archived at:

http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/media/mailing/archive/iufo/

Keith