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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:35:13 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:25:45 -0500
Subject: Barry Greenwood's CAUS Resignation Statement

JUST CAUSE

Address: Box 176
Stoneham, MA 02180

Editor: Barry Greenwood

CITIZENS AGAINST UFO SECRECY

January 25, 1998

This will be my last statement for CAUS, Citizens Against UFO
Secrecy.  Effective January 18, 1998, I have resigned as editor
of its newsletter Just Cause.

In 1984, after CAUS was essentially a defunct organization, Larry
Fawcett and I thought it would be a good idea to have a vehicle
to publish updates following the publication of "Clear Intent,"
now called "The UFO Cover Up." We asked Peter Gersten, who had
previously taken out papers incorporating an earlier version of
CAUS with himself as director, if it was all right to revive CAUS
and its newsletter, Just Cause, since no one was doing anything
with the organization. CAUS had become a recognizable name after
several national news stories a few years before, and Fawcett and
I were working on the kind of research that CAUS had
represented.

Gersten gave permission and we began a new version of Just Cause
in September 1984, with Fawcett as publisher and Greenwood as
editor.  On occasion we would publish along with Just Cause a
CAUS Washington Report by Larry Bryant, giving his views on
government UFO matters.  It was essentially an independent
publication by a previous editor of Just Cause.  There was no
editor crossover influence between the two publications.  CWR
stopped around 1992 after about a dozen issues.

From 1984 to date, a period of more than 13 years, all CAUS
policy decisions and opinions were basically my constructions
since Director Gersten had left the organization to do other
things.  Several years ago Larry Fawcett retired to Florida,
leaving me with the entire operation, i.e., the newsletter and a
group of supporters/subscribers/members around the world.

In early January 1998, I was informed by Project 1947 head, Jan
Aldrich, that a site on the Internet contained a rambling open
letter on UFOs for a group called CSETI, run by Steven Greer.
The statement concluded with a list of contact organizations for
the letter, CAUS was one of the listed with *my* address but with
a phone number I did not recognize.  I never saw this letter, did
not endorse its contents or CSETI, and did not authorize any use
of the CAUS name and address.  The phone number, I discovered
later, belonged to Robert Bletchman of Connecticut, public
relations head of the Mutual UFO Network. That a MUFON official
is listing himself as a CAUS contact is beyond me since he was
neither a CAUS representative or on my mailing list.  Why is
MUFON interfering in my business anyway?

I asked Aldrich to act as intermediary on the net for me as I am
not on-line.  I insisted that the operator of the web site with
the CSETI letter, Steven Bassett of Washington, D.C., remove CAUS
from the list of contacts for the letter immediately.

On January 18th, I was advised by Aldrich of an E-mail message
from Peter Gersten to him announcing that Gersten was reasserting
his control of CAUS *retroactive* to January 1 to "make CAUS an
effective and viable activist organization dedicated to ending
all secrecy about extraterrestrial contact..."  He added that, "I
hope to pick up where Barry left off," and that he (Gersten) be
consulted prior to making any statements on behalf of CAUS.

I was thunderstruck that after 13 years of setting policy for
CAUS to protect its reputation as a careful, credible outlet for
research on the federal government's interest in aerial phenomena
(apparently something few of its other "officials" cared about as
they never showed up!), my position was being summarily usurped
in the flash of a keystroke.  I had left off *nothing,* and
suddenly any CAUS statements had to be cleared through Gersten,
someone who hadn't overseen the operation or issued any policy
directives for over a decade!

After having asked Steven Bassett, through Aldrich, to remove the
CAUS info from the CSETI letter, I discovered that the new
director Gersten had consulted with Bassett and had accepted him
as a CAUS consultant, again without my knowledge, thoroughly
undermining my position through a blind sided strike.

It became quickly clear that staying with CAUS was
untenable,...unacceptable.  The "new" CAUS officials, who were
popping up like prairie dog heads in the desert, were beginning
to forge unpleasant connections, CSETI/Greer for one.  On
Gersten's on-line chat room, one of his recent workshops is
titled, "Healing Your Inner Alien."  This is precisely the kind
of thing that I had spent much of my publishing time against: the
dumbing-down of UFO research, getting off onto silly tangents.
Pardon me for offending any personal beliefs but this is not
science, it is not even common sense, not even close.

With the advent of a collection of new CAUS loose cannons, I
asked Jan Aldrich to E-mail my immediate resignation to Gersten.
For me the rapid escalation of double-dealing and duplicity was
over.  Upon acknowledging my resignation, Gersten immediately
announced the debut of Just Cause as his own on-line publication,
wasting no time completing the assault.

One point needs to be made clear.  Peter Gersten was director of
CAUS when we took over the newsletter in 1984.  He did not resign
the position, he abandoned it, though, legally he still held the
title.  In essence, Fawcett and I were forced to be the de facto
directors in that no one else was issuing reports or statements
in that capacity.  I was in no position to change Gersten's
status without tearing down the organization and titles and
renaming everything.  At the time there was no need. He has the
right to take that title again.  I don't have to accept the "coup
d'etat" method in which it was done, or the new alliances which I
feel will ultimately destroy CAUS' credibility.

Since this is my last CAUS publication, from here on anything
attributed to CAUS is not my responsibility.  I have no
connection to it.

I will replace Just Cause with a new publication called "UFO
Historical Review."  If any of my existing subscribers want to
continue with CAUS, I will refund their remaining issues and they
can find CAUS on-line somewhere. If any want to stay, do nothing.
The next mailing will contain UHR, which will be similar in
format to Just Cause.  Available from Box 176, Stoneham, MA
02180. Quarterly at $15 per years, and $20 foreign.  Payable on
renewal to me, not UHR, for the present.  I want to thank Larry
Fawcett and Robert Todd for their contributions during the CAUS
era, and more recently Jan Aldrich and Edward Stewart of Project
1947 for alerting me to the back room maneuvers.

Barry Greenwood




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