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From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:27:15 EDT
Fwd Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:06:33 -0400
Subject: Re: -[For The Record]- P-1947: Death of Roswell


>Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:50:42 -0500 (CDT)
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Dennis <dstacy@texas.net>
>Subject: Re: -[For The Record]- P-1947: Death of Roswell

>>From: Greg Sandow <gsandow@prodigy.net>
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>Subject: Re: -[For The Record]- P-1947: Death of Roswell
>>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:25:14 -0400


<snip-a-reno>

I keep telling myself to read the posts, disgest them, and go on
to something else. But, I have to respond here, I'm afraid.

>There is no compelling reason to think that the men and women
>stationed at Roswell in 1947 were any different. I don't think
>any of us envisions a base full of lip-zipped zombies walking
>around for several days after the news of the recovery of a
>flying disc made the local paper. So Henderson flies a plane
>with a crate on it. A crewman asks Henderson, "What we got?"
>Henderson says, "I don't know." Crewman says, "They didn't tell
>you!" and then launches into banter, maybe gigging Henderson for
>the next couple of hours, all the way to Ft. Worth, telling him
>about the bodies he's "seen," which are now onboard.

This is simply not true. There is a compelling reason to believe
that the people at Roswell wouldn't stand around the water
cooler jawing about this. They were not carpenters, secretaries,
office managers, or anything else. They had been schooled in
secrets and not talking about of school. Remember, when the
509th Composite Bomb Wing was formed to drop the atomic bombs on
Japan, they, meaning the military planted stories and allowed
soldiers to see mock ups of special aircraft. Then sent them all
on leave. They were shadowed and listened to, and if anyone
talked out of turn, he was sent him... or in the case, back to
his original unit.

These people had been schooled on how to keep their mouths shut.
So, when Robert Slusher, on the flight crew that took a big
crate to Fort Worth, he was told that it was the general's
furniture which was one way of telling him it was none of his
business.

Second, there are any number of "classified couriers." These
people carry classified material from one location to another
and have no need to know what they carry. They sign for it, they
do not look at it, and take it to the receiving agent, whomever
that might be, and get a signed receipt.

Finally, as to why some have talked in today's world, I think
Greg might have hit it here. Pappy Henderson said, after he saw
the Roswell story in a tabloid, "I guess I can tell you [his
wife] now." Technically, he was flat wrong. He should have not
said a word, but he thought the secret was out. That might
explain why some are talking in today's environment when they
wouldn't a decade or more ago.

>This brings me to a major carp I might as well get out of the
>way now: the absence of interview transcripts in any of the
>major Roswell books. Maybe this was a decision on the part of
>the various publishers, I don't know. All I do know is that it
>leaves the reading public largely in the dark.

Because, mainly they are boring. The important points have been
published. And I have published transcripts about many of these
interviews.

>For example, in the Randle Report, p. 201, Easley is quoted as
>saying, "Let me put it this way. That is not the wrong path."

>In Conspiracy of Silence Randle quotes him as saying (p. 29),
>"That's the right path. You're not following the wrong one."

>Same sense, admittedly, but what does it say about Randle's
>reliability as a reporter? Is he quoting two different audio
>tapes? Is he even quoting?

Oh, let's now argue about trivia shall we?

Okay, one time with feeling.

Me: Are we following the right path?

Edwin Easley: What do you mean?

Me: We think it was extraterrestrial.

Edwin Easley: Let me put it this way. That's not the wrong
path.

Do I have it on tape? No. Why? Because at the time, I was
spending a great deal of time and money on the investigation.
Never enough for the critics, but all I could afford. It was my
time and money and I have other books to write (horror of
horrors to many some were Science Fiction). While at the CUFOS
office, while they were doing secret board meeting stuff, I was
told to make use of the telephones. One of those I called was
Edwin Easley and during that non-tape-recorded conversation, he
made the statement.

Yes, I fully intended to get him on tape at some other time. I
hoped that Mark Rodegheir, who was going to Fort Worth would be
able to meet with Easley in person. I called to arrange that,
but was unable to get him on the telephone. I talked to his
wife. After several failed attempts, I called again, and learned
that he was very ill. Here was a great opportunity lost.

Now, the two quotes (and I'm not even going to look them up)
mentioned here are probably as they were in the book. So what?
They say the same thing and if the editor changed one to the
positive and I failed to catch it on the page proofs, well, big
deal. Easley said, basically, the craft was extraterrestrial,
but he didn't say it on tape and that is one of the major
regrets I have because we could have ended this discussion at
that point. You'll either believe he said it, or you won't.

KRandle