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From: ParadigmRG <ParadigmRG@aol.com> [Stephen G. Bassett]
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:24:57 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:33:36 -0500
Subject: Kal Korff - In His Own Words...

It has been 30+ years since Philip Klass stepped on the stage of
uflogy and began a most unusual career attacking and undermining
anything and anyone not in concordance with prosaic explanations
for the developing UFO phenomena.  He is old now, quite a bit
slowed, much of the razor wit stanched.  But as he moves to the
side, we have little time to contemplate his impact on the
history of things, his agenda, his motives - for now we have Kal
Korff.

When Phil began his career there were no personal computers, no
world wide web, little talk radio.  Times of have changed.  Funny
thing about the web, though.  It offers the ultimate medium to
publish whatever you feel like printing on any subject.  It also
provides the means to archive it all.

As you read the following excerpts, it is important to keep in
mind the following:

1)  These excerpts are in chronological order, earliest to most
recent posting and beginning to the end of the post.  All are
from unique documents - no duplications.

2)  Nothing between the elipses, punctuation, capitalization,
etc., has been altered.

3)  These excerpts, of course, are out of context.  While an
effort has been made to avoid misrepresentation, if you have any
doubt, go to the source document archived at:
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/

4)  They most certainly are only a portion of such material
posted into cyberspace by Mr. Korff.  There is no representation
from any private posts, private discussions, or off-the-record
interviews.   It is not unreasonable, however, to assume the
general rule that someone is more conservative in their
published, as opposed to private, communications.
______________________

KAL KORFF: IN HIS OWN WORDS

Updates - Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 05:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Kal Korff Admits He's NOT A Spy!

...As to my consulting for the government on anti-terrorist
issues, unlike certain "UFOlogists", I believe very strongly that
international terrorists MUST be stopped...

...For the record, as my new book on Roswell due out shortly
proves, I was also a consultant for the Prosecution on the O.J.
Simpson case. I resigned,however, after seeing how inept they
were -- much like several "UFOlogists" I know.

...I knew he was trying to set me up, and I don't play those
games. You see,Hesemann has a lisp, the poor fellow....

...As long as the UFO field is overcrowded with kooks and
charlatans as well, it will never attain the status of a
legitimate area of scientific inquiry, nor should it...

...I remember when I saw Meier's wife while I was there in
Switzerland undercover. She looked like a walking zombie, as I
mention in my book, and of course we've all known that Meier has
abused her for years. No wonder she's finally leaving him...

...Maybe Michael should share with us what he told Glen Hoyen and
I at the MUFON Seattle conference about what Meier makes the
women in his cult do everyday. Go ahead, Michael, share this
little sexual "gem" with the rest of the internet world, won't
you?..

...Of course, you won't, because then even fewer people would
believe in the Meier case and it would make you look even more
gullible than you are. Get a clue, Michael, and get a life!...

...As far as Bob Shell saying my "spy" background should be
investigated, I suggest that he team up with Hesemann and Mantle
and form yet another International "Research" Team and "expose"
me. I would rather have these clowns spend their time chasing
fantasies rather than continuing to meddle in(and muddy)the UFO
database of cases which deserve far better than the sorry,
inexcusable efforts of these three stooges. PLEASE investigate
me....and maybe while you three are busy chasing down a new,
non-event, the rest of us can try and get some credible work
done...
___________

Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 05:34:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Kal Korff Admits He's NOT A Spy! [to Gary

...I stand behind my statement though that I wish Hesemann,
Mantle and Shell would tie up all their time "investigating"
me...
___________

Updates - Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 18:26:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Kal Korff to DRudiak

...You are also VERY WRONG ABOUT MARCEL'S RECORDS. How do you
EXPLAIN THE FACT THAT MARCEL LIED ABOUT BEING A PILOT AND THAT HE
HAD A DEGREE IN PHYSICS FROM LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, WHEN THE
TRUTH IS HE DID NOT! ALSO, IF MARCEL WAS SO "RELIABLE" THEN WHY
DID HE LIE (BLATANTLY) ABOUT HAVING SHOT DOWN 5 ENEMY AIRCRAFT
AND BEING AWARDED FIVE AIR MEDALS WHEN HE CERTAINLY WASN'T??  HE
ALSO LIED ABOUT ENTERING THE ARMY as an aide to general Hap
Arnold! How do you explain this?...

...There are other lies that Marcel made, need I recount the pain
of all of them to you?...
_____________

Updates; - Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 19:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Korff Makes PEACE with Hesemann!

...Besides, it was YOU, Herr Hesemann, who was KICKED OUT of a
UFO lecture given by one of your fellow Germans because YOU were
SECRETLY PIRATING images that you were warned specifically
against copying! You did it anyway, and got kicked out...
___________

Updates - Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 19:49:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Korff's Message to Ed Komarek

...I certainly hope that your Operation Right To Know is more
grounded in reality than your opinion(s) about me are. If it is
not, then your group will fail miserably and the UFO field will
have yet another black eye that has been self-inflicted...

___________

Updates - Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 04:57:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Disproving Ed Komarek

...The reason I am getting so much attention from the media (and
it is only just beginning) is because I have always gotten lots
of attention from them ever since I was 15, whenever I made
myself available to them. I am using this attention to launch new
initiatives...
___________

Updates - Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:54:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Bursting the Balloon

...The UFO field has sunk to new, all-time lows...and we have
people like Ray Scamtilli, Richard Hoaxland, Jim DileNoShow, Art
$ell and others to "thank" for this...
______________

Updates - Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:53:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Kal Korff's 'Open Letter To Art Bell'

...In the interim, if you could please send me an address where I
can send the appropriate documentation to you for my appearance
on your popular show, we can start moving this process forward
towards resolution. I would like an address from you, and will
send two packages of documentation via overnight mail, and I will
request that you personally sign for the package and will
guarantee me IN WRITING that you will receive the material AND
read it and ADDRESS it with me together on your show. If what you
say is true Mr. Bell, that you never made any such calls or
"threats" to these radio stations, then this should prove no
problem for you...
____________

Updates - Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:05:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Phoenix Lights & Flares

...MANY PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT EXPOSING DILETTOSO, AND THESE
PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ME. There is also an expose of Jim
Dilettoso published by the New Times, which cites his jail record
(Hoagland has one as well) and how he has conned people...

...People like Jim Dilettoso, and other con artists, give UFOlogy
a very bad name. The field has so little credibility without
these clowns scamming people. But this is why station KXAM plays
the song "Flim Flam Man" when they have discussed Jim Dilettoso
over the past month or so...


...This is why I LAUGH when Michael Hesemann and Jim Deardorff
cite the "scientific analysis" and "authentication" of the Billy
Meier UFO Photos, because what they are endorsing is Jim
Dilettoso's FRAUDULENT activities...

...PLEASE, for the GOOD of the UFO field, we need to root out the
Richard Hoaglands and Jim Dilettosos. Lying individuals who run
around claiming to have PhDs when they do not only HURT the UFO
field and do NOT help it...

...More importantly, because we didn't bother condemning those
people we KNOW are hucksters and con artists, or expose them, we
get thrown into their same bin, and judged accordingly, even
though this isn't an accurate thing to do...

...IF THE UFO FIELD WANTS TO GET ITSELF TO START BEING TAKEN
SERIOUSLY, THEN QUIT ENDORSING THE DILETTOSO'S AND HOAGLANDS AND
BILLY MEIERS of the world...

...Otherwise, DON'T COMPLAIN if the media doesn't listen to you.
And don't then cry "cover up" or "foul," because the REAL cover
up and "foul" being committed is by the UFO researchers who don't
have the integrity enough to call these charlatans and EXPOSE
THEM for what they are!...
_____________

Updates - Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 03:38:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Phoenix Lights and Flares

...My ONLY concern is that Dielettoso has shown some of the SAME
fraudulent scam activities regrading these Phoenix lights as he
did with the Meier case and instead of the UFO field taking him
to task over it, they either don't know this, ignore it, or
remain silent. THIS IS INEXCUSABLE!...
_______________

Updates - Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 02:58:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Another Question for Kal

...Recently, Don Allen mentioned that I never sent my rebuttal to
him regarding Billy Meier and Jim Deardorff states a bold faced
LIE that I have a "vendetta" against Jim Dilettoso...

...Regarding Art Bell, I am still waiting to hear from him and
have done as HEsks. If Bell does not let me on his show (meaning
he changes his invitation to me) then of course I will post this
info. I will not let Bell off the hook on this...

...To Jim Deardorff: You are WRONG about a "vendetta" against
Dilettoso...

...Well, Jim? PLEASE enlighten ALL of us and your posting of
Dilettoso's "paper" proves nothing. If anything, Mr. Deardorff,
it makes you look pretty stupid...

...When I return, I will post JUST FOR YOU TO ADDRESS, JIM, the
CONFESSION of the OTHER con artist that helped Jim Dilettoso FAKE
his Meier "photo analysis." This confession was aired recently on
a Phoenix radio station...
_______________

Updates - Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 05:26:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Tom King's Comments About Kal Korff

...Finally, I have not "discredited" myself, Tom, except perhaps
in the eyes of those for which I never had any "credibility" in
the first place. You know the type, Tom, those Meier/Pleiadian
nuts you hang out with...

...Getting back to Art Bell, you see, Tom, my sources had
confused the legal threats made against radio stations and the
attempts to censor me with the activities of Art Bell.  I quoted
my sources and they turned out to be wrong upon closer
investigation...

...Unlike certain UFO "researchers" both you and I know, Tom, I
ADMIT when I am wrong. Even on national radio, and I did so on
Bell's show...

...Or do you believe, Tom, that people who LIE about having
Ph.D.s are more credible than those researchers who make totally
human, albeit very visible, mistakes?..

...While I have been accused of having a "vendetta" against
Dilettoso, this is NOT true. Wrong. VERY WRONG. However, as long
as the UFO field CONTINUES TO IGNORE AND NOT SPEAK UP ABOUT THOSE
PHONIES WHO MAKE UP THEIR IMAGINARY COLLEGE DEGREES AND
UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED, I feel I MUST speak up...
___________________

Updates - Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:03:58 EST
Subject: NUFORC Reports on the US Northwest Mass Sightings

...Konfuscious saying #94: "Colonel Corso will be exposed in an
upcoming and devastating expose as a fraud in January, 1988, and
those who have bought his book may very well be entitled to a
REFUND in a CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST Pocket Books."...
___________________

Updates - Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 01:38:26 EST
Subject: Re: 'The X-Factor' (issue 25) - Question to Corso

...In other words, unlike SOME UFO authors, who sock away the
profits to line their pockets, I am plowing it back into UFO
research...
___________________

Updates - Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 02:50:44 EST
Subject: Re: Kal Korff's UFO Sighting

...Look how people (even Ufologists) have swallowed Corso's
garbage without a shred of proof. I can't wait til Corso gets
exposed in less than 30 days.
Those bozos who supported him without any good or decent reason
in the UFO field will have egg on their collective faces and
rightly so....

...Personally, I hope Mantle invites Corso because considering
the company Mantle keeps it is par for Philip's course...
__________________

Updates - Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 03:04:43 EST
Subject: Re: CORSO

...I hate to use such strong language, Philip, but originally I
thought Corso was just old, demented and senile. Now it has been
established that he has just blatantly confabulated his Roswell
claims AND his various accounts of his "career," and the
forthcoming "Day After Dallas" book that he and Birnes are
preparing to scam the people with is a despicable insult to the
American people and a tragic travesty that exploits and plays on
the emotions surrounding the assassination of President JFK...

...Merry Christmas to you, Philip. May the Grinch steal Corso's
Christmas, though, and may Robin Hood descend upon his house and
return some of the money he has "earned" by scamming people in
his book...

...The issue here, Philip, is NOT to censor people at UFO
conferences, as you stated, but rather, WHY invite someone whose
claims can be and have been PROVEN to be BOLDFACED LIES??...

___________________

Updates - Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 02:32:34 EST
Subject: Re: The Tender Underbelly of Ufology...

...Those bygone days were certainly LESS full of nuts, whackos
and charlatans than today. Meier was pretty much the only major
scam in town and there was no Ray Santilli, Derrel Simms....

...Personally, I have NO PROBLEM with anyone who makes an honest
or innocent research error or mistake...heck, look at my Art Bell
apology and episode...
__________________

Updates - Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:42:46 EST
Subject: Jim Dilettoso Finally Exposed for Good?

...It is with a feeling of mixed emotions, that I must announce
to you, that this week's issue of the Phoenix New Times, has an
extremely devastating expose of UFO photo "analyst" and image
computer "expert," Jim Dilettoso...

...While Billy Meier and his unobjective, religious, and
fanatical believers such as Jim Deardorff, Michael Hesemann, and
good old "Jerome" in the Netherlands will undoubtedly find ways
to rationalize the tartling revelations in this devastating
expose,the burden of proof is on them to DISPROVE these new
allegations...

...The _truth is, the investigative reporter for the Phoenix New
Times, decided to independently research Dilettoso and Meier, and
found (surprise!) that Dilettoso is 100% guilty of doing
everything from lying about having various degrees from assorted
universities, to outright swindling millionaire Jordi Hormel to
the tune of several million dollars...

...The reporter also proves, according to recent court records he
cites, that Jim Dilettoso and Village Labs have been running a
scam all along over these past years, and that while Jim was
busily mugging for the cameras exposing the "Phoenix UFO"
nonsense with fellow "experts" such as Tom King, Dilettoso was
busy fighting a court order to keep from being evicted by his
landlord...

...Members of the Hormel family are quoted in the expose, and
they are on record as saying that they regret that they ever
funded Dilettoso -- who made yet more wild claims recently that
he helped with the special effects for the movie "Titanic"!!...

...a barrage of real photo experts and Ph.D.s are quoted
throughout the piece and are on record as calling Dilettoso
everything from a "liar" to describing his "scientific"
techniques as "bullshit."...

...The article also exposes Frances Emma Barwood, and mentions
her right wing militia fanatical husband, as well as UFO
"lobbyist" Stephen Bassett...

...More importantly, is also proves that Jim Dilettoso has conned
people, literally, out of millions of dollars over the years and
that the Village Labs PR frenzy ths past year was yet another
scam designed to bail them out while fighting being evicted under
court order...

...According to the article, Jim Dilettoso, because of a judge's
court order, is leaving the building where Village Labs
existed,and "the word" in Phoenix is that Village Labs is
shutting down -- despite their new "web presence" which implies
they are legitimate...

...Investors, and UFOlogists, and the media, beware!!...

...Finally, I mention all of this because while exposing Jim
Dilettoso for the fraud that he is, is one thing, the article is
also devastating for the UFO field as well...

...The article, for example, cites how Dr. Jim Harder's wife
claims her husband is "an ET," and the journalist takes the UFO
field to task for being the home of basically, stupidity. I don't
know what else to call it...

...Some absurd and blatantly false claims of author Jim Marrs are
also exposed, and the UFO field once again is pounded repeatedly
-- and rightly so, because it was our fault (except those few who
have exposed Dilettoso in the past and knew better all along)for
drinking the New Age and pseudoscientific "kool-aid" that has now
come back to haunt us...

...In a nationwide radio show that I did in January, I declared
that I was labeling 1998 the Year of Accountability in the UFO
field.  I meant what I said, and this is just the first of many
such devastating exposes that will be coming out in the
future...

...While I did not write the Phoenix New Times piece, I was
interviewed, and as the writer makes clear, not only were dozens
of people interviewed, but the author independently confirmed my
past allegations of fraud concerning Jim...

...This expose should serve as a warning notice to everyone like
Dilettoso -- people like Bob Dean, Tom King, Wendelle, Sean
Morton, Hesemann, Mantle, Santilli, and others...

...And let's be honest with ourselves here: We all know this list
is a lot longer than the above-mentioned names...

...The media is closing in you are going to be exposed, and
unfortunately for these types, if there is any chance to ever get
the UFO field to be taken seriously, these people must and will
be exposed...

...As the saying goes, (and please excuse my bluntness, but this
was said to me about the UFO field by yet another journalist who
is working on an expose of Robert Dean) "You can't make chicken
salad out of chicken shit!"...

...At least a few in this subject can say "I told you so," -- not
in an egotistical sense, but in a cautionary sense -- and let
this lesson be learned and this serve as a warning to us all --
either bring accountability into the UFO field and drum out these
con artists, or don't complain if the media does not take the UFO
issue seriously...

...Now for the REAL challenge: WHO is going to be the next bozo
to send "UFO" pictures to Jim for "scientific testing."...

...The few who think critically in the UFO field, and now the
mainstream media, will be watching -- and you will be exposed
accordingly, and rightly so...
___________________

Updates - Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 16:54:35 EST
Subject: Re: Jim Dilettoso Finally Exposed for Good?

...Recently, Mr. John Valez posted a response to my announcement about the Phoenix Times exposing Jim Dilettoso and his con-artist-related
activities and scientific incompetence and outright fraud. This
is my response...

...My reasoning is this: those who knowingly associate with
people who perpetrate frauds, and say nothing about it, are
guilty as well. Tom is on record as saying that "Jim is really
doing a good job" regarding his "analysis" of the Phoenix
lights...

...Either Tom didn't know better, knows better, is just
innocently mistaken, or he's blatantly lying like Dilettoso does
all the time...

...Also, John, with all due respect, I really did NOT have
anything to do with the expose on Dilettoso. While I spoke with
the reporter briefly, it turns out he had borrowed a copy of my
book from Richard Motzer, and then the reporter lifted
(verbatim)several paragraphs from my Meier expose book that he
used. I did not even really do an interview with him about much
at all. So,those "quotes" from me are just verbatim excerpts from
my book...

...If Jim really does play piano well, good for him. At least
there's two things we now know he IS qualified to do: play piano
and con people. He has shown a remarkable set of skills for
both...

...Unfortunately, everytime someone exposes Jim, (which is easy
to do because all one has to do is make phone calls to check what
he says) I get "blamed" for it. This really makes me unhappy and
it is patently untrue...

...and I am glad to see that everyone is finally waking up to the
truth about Dilettoso and starting to do their own critical
thinking. It's about time: the UFO field needs this and we MUST
start cleaning house as they say...

...Right now, my efforts are focused on trying to get the
government to release UFO documents that remain classified, and
so far we are making (slow) progress. The key has been to NOT
work with people like Stephen Basset and others, whom our
government has either no respect for, or thinks are simply way
off base...

...And given the crap I hear coming from people like Basset, I
can't blame them...

...I am a pretty straightforward person: I believe hoaxers and
scamsters hurt the UFO field and the public as a whole. I work
with law enforcement to go after criminals...

..If you know anything about me, John, you would know about my
police/detective background and how I have helped nail terrorists
and other sickos and have helped kept them from killing innocent
people...

..To put it another way: If you claim to be a human rights
advocate, yet serve under the regime of Saddam Hussein, you're a
hypocrite at best -- possibly a mass murderer/accomplace at
worst...    ...What is Tom?...

...I am not going to allow my valuable time to be wasted on
something that only confirms what any half-wit would find
obvious: that Jim is a FRAUD, his Meier "analysis" (which people
like Jim Deardorff just "love,")is a FRAUD and that Jim is a
con-artist...

...Just ask Jordi Hormel, who is now several MILLION $$ poorer,
and OTHER victims Jim has scammed...

...As you will find out, more people are coming forward who Jim
has scammed, because enough people have had enough...

...This expose of Jim, or of ANYONE like him, HURTS the field of
UFO research and I don't like to see people victimized, by
anyone. That's why I work in the law enforcement field and
anti-terrorist sectors, and other areas...

...I hate this, will not tolerate it, and feel morally obligated
to try and change this. Jim Dilettoso is of no interest to me,
and as I said to him on the MSN chat, (check the transcript
yourself,John) now that he's FINALLY told the truth about his
FAKE Ph.D. LIE (although it took him YEARS to do it) I won't
pester him on it again...

...Kal (long-winded and very busy with criminal and terrorist
investigations and government UFO document initiatives) Korff...
__________________

Updates - Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:58:12 EST
Subject: Re: Jim Dilettoso Finally Exposed for Good

...I care very much about the crdeibility of ufology. That's why,
as an objective researcher, I call it as it is -- Jim Dilettoso
is a fraud and a con artist -- case closed...

...People are finally waking up to this fact, I am on to other
things and let those bozos who supported Jim and knew he was
questionable deal with the fallout!!...

...Are you listening Bob Dean? Wendelle Stevens? Michael
Hesemann? Billy Meier? Jaime Moussan? Lee and Brit Elders? Tom
Welch? Tom King? Bill Hamilton?
Frances Emma Barwood? Stephen Bassett (who often borrows Jim's
car)?  The list is much longer, because the UFO field is
overloaded with con artists and people who have an agenda that is
NOT based on the truth!...

...I have told you that accountability is coming to this field,
and thanks to con artists like Dilettoso the media is becoming
hostile, and rightly so. Mark my words, everyone -- a series of
devastating exposes are being written by various journalists on
many of you and I am just standing by the wayside, waiting for
the bullpuckey to hit the fan, (those who are being exposed
deserve it) and focusing on my government UFO document retrieval
efforts...

...P.S. Please share with us what YOU think of Jim Dilettoso's
photo analysis, how he lied about having a Ph.D., how he scammed
Jordi Hormel out of millions of dollars, etc....

EOP