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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:44:21 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:46:54 -0500
Subject: Reactions to Barry Greenwood's Resignation
Below are a few reactions to Barry Greenwood's resignation
from CAUS
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Barry Greenwood has provided a cautious and conservative check
on the excesses in the UFO field. In this era of wild unfounded
claims his service was very inportant to serious UFO research.
His new publication will be a welcome addition to the field.
---Richard Hall
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I regret the need for Barry Greenwood to resign from CAUS
but having known Barry by his efforts over the last 10 years
I support him 100%.
Hopefully some good will come from it all and I would like
to receive his new newsletter.
Perhaps it could cover both historical UFO reports (which
would naturally include some Project-1947 material) as well
as any future release of material under FOIA which I hope
both Barry and yourself will continue.
Please assure Barry of my continuued support for the future
Regards
--
Murray Bott
Auckland, New Zealand
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For as long as I've known of CAUS, Barry was always the
"human face" of the group. Whenever I wrote to CAUS, Barry
was the one to reply. When I needed information from CAUS,
Barry was the one who sent it to me. When _JUST CAUS_ subs
had to be renewed, they went to Barry.
Barry wrote, co-ordinated, and edited the information obtained
from CAUS and virtually single-handedly kept the organization
afloat.
Barry _was_ CAUS, and whatever the future may bring, I will
always associate the spirit, dedication and unfailing generosity
of Barry with the man who _was_ CAUS for so long, and who will no
doubt imbue any future projects with those same qualities.
Barry, your peers and your admirirers wish you all the best.
Kindest regards,
John Stepkowski,
Melbourne, Australia.
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As for myself, I wholeheartedly support Barry.... Please feel
free to quote me about that subject.
I've been accustomed to think of CAUS as of Barry, in the last
15 years or so. He's been a rare voice of sanity and prudence
in as delicate a place as the center of official documents
releases, where the much too numerous and vociferous paranoids
might well have taken over.
What a pity he's leaving now!
My first reaction was that he should not have surrendered,
but he was there, I was not (and I did the same myself in
1985, when I had to take the painful decision to leave a
CUN I had worked for and believed in for years, but which
had gone to unacceptable positions).
Edoard Russo, CISU
Torino, Italy
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Several years ago, for a reason I don't remember, French UFO
researcher Yves Bosson sent me copies of several articles that
had appeared in Just Cause. For me, at that time, Just Cause
was the bulletin of a group championning the "UFO community
vs the government" battle on UFOs. I had read Greenwood and
Fawcett's book and didn't chare some of their conclusions and
I also remembered the first years of CAUS with Gersten's fights
against government agencies. The CAUS I knew was another group,
the group that started before Greenwood became editor of Just
Cause.
I was very surprised when I read the articles from Just Cause
sent to me by Bosson. No wild claims. Only carefully checked
facts. I asked Bosson to send me all his copies of the
newsletter and sent $20 to Barry Greenwood to subscribe. I
discovered that the European ufology was not the center of the
world and that even in the country of coverups, Roswell fans,
MJ-12 and Stan Friedman, there was a voice for high quality
information on government involvement on UFOs.
When the GAO investigation and the Air Force investigation on
Roswell started I called Greenwood several times "to know the
truth" about what was happening. I discovered a man who is in
fact very strange when compared to many other UFO researchers:
Greenwood has no extraordinary revelations to make, no rumors to
spread on other researchers, it's possible to disagree with him
without loosing him as a friend (and of course without being
accused of being a CIA agent or a debunker). Greenwood is
something like a UFO experience: as long as you haven't talk to
him, you cannot imagine the person he is or believe that he
exists: the tone of his voice, the way he replies to questions or
criticism etc. In a community where insults, gossips and rumors
replace scientific discussions, Greenwwod is a real anomaly.
One last anecdote: some time ago, the French cultural TV channel
Arte (French equivalent to PBS) asked me who to invite to speak
about the US situation re UFOs. Of course I mentionned Greenwood's
name and told them something similar to what is written above.
Unfortunately I forgot that Greenwood lacks something, the something
that stops TV producers when they decide who they should or should
not invite. Greenwood doesn't have a PhD in nuclear physics, in
astronomy, or he is not a former MJ-12 member, never worked at Area
51 on crashed saucers or this kind of thing. As a result, Arte
didn't invite him and instead, they invited Stanton Friedman, who
of course has all the necessary credentials to speak about UFOs!!
And the French public learned all those terrifying secrets that the
US government is hidding. We can easily understand that a serious
TV channel like Arte cannot compromise itself in inviting someone
who is not a scientist and therefore who could go off the rail
during the interview!
What can I add? Nothing except that I sincerely wish for all of
us that Barry will continue to publish his newsletter (he told
me the other day that he will) and that thanks to him and to a
few other sane people in this field, we'll be able to maintain
something that really looks like UFO research. It's too bad that
people who consider ufology as just a pseudo-science full of cranks
don't know that people like Greenwood exist.
Sorry for my Frenglish. I hope you'll understand from what I say
above that Barry Greenwood is one of the few people in this field
that I really appreciate. But contrary to what I often read or
hear, I don't think that the UFO community is in such a bad
situation because even if there are more and more nuts, there are
also more and more serious investigators who follow the "Greenwood
policy". The only thing that is really happening is that there is
a divide that is getting greater each day between the sane UFO
researchers/historians and the true believers who accepts every
wild UFO claims.
Pierre Lagrange
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Count on me. You may definitely quote me. Joining Pierre,
I support Barry's statement too.
Useless to add more.
Sincerely,
Maurizio Verga, CISU
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Yes, I support him willingly.
Bruno Mancusi
Switzerland
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