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PART 15

Unknown to just about everybody, a secret American/Soviet/alien
space base existed on the dark side of the moon. By the early
1960s human colonies were thriving on the surface of Mars. All
the while the naive people of the earth were led to believe the
Soviets and the Americans were something other than the closest
allies. But Cooper's story got even more bizarre and byzantine.

He claimed that in 1963, when President Kennedy found out some
of what was going on, he gave an ultimatum to MJ-12: get out of
the drug business. He also declared that in 1964 he would tell
the American people about the alien visitation. Agents of MJ-12
ordered his assassination. Kennedy was murdered in full view of
many hundreds of onlookers, none of whom apparently noticed, by
the Secret Service agent driving the President's car in the
motorcade.

In 1969, reported Cooper, a confrontation between human
scientists and aliens at the Dulce laboratory resulted in the
former's being taken hostage by the latter. Soldiers who tried to
free the scientists were killed, unable to overcome the superior
alien weapons. The incident led to a two-year rupture in
relations. The alliance was resumed in 1971 and continues to this
day, even as a vast invisible financial empire run by the CIA,
the NSA and the Council on Foreign Relations runs drugs, launders
money and encourages massive street crime so that Americans will
be susceptible to gun-control legislation. The CIA has gone so
far as to employ drugs and hypnosis to cause mentally-unstable
individuals to commit mass murder of schoolchildren and other
innocents, the point being to encourage anti-gun hysteria. All of
this is part of the plot, aided and abetted by the mass media
(also under the secret government's control), to so scare
Americans that they will soon accept the declaration of martial
law when that happens, people will be rounded up and put in
concentration camps already in place. From there they will be
flown to the moon and Mars to work as slave labor in the space
colonies.


The conspirators already run the world. As Cooper put it, "Even
a cursory investigation by the most inexperienced researcher will
show that the members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Trilateral commission control the major foundations, all of the
major media and publishing interests, the largest banks, all the
major corporations, the - upper echelons of the government, and
many other vital interests."

Reaction to Lear and Cooper: Whereas Lear had felt some
obligation to name a source or two, or at least to mutter
something about "unnamed sources," Cooper told his lurid and
outlandish tale as if it were so self-evidently true that sources
or supporting data were irrelevant. And to the enthusiastic
audiences flocking to Cooper's lectures, no evidence was
necessary. By the fall of the year Cooper was telling his stories--whose sources were, in fact, flying-saucer folklore,
AFOSI disinformation unleashed during the Bennewitz episode,
conspiracy literature, and outright fiction--to large crowds of
Californians willing to pay $l0 or $15 apiece for the thrill of
being scared silly.

Lear and Cooper soon were joined by two other tellers of tales
of UFO horrors and Trilateral conspiracies, William English and
John Grace (who goes under the pseudonym "Val Valarian" and heads
the Nevada Aerial Research Group in Las Vegas).

Few if any mainstream ufologists took these stories seriously
and at first treated them as something of a bad joke. But when it
became clear that Lear, Cooper and company were commanding
significant media attention and finding a following among the
larger public interested in ufology's fringes, where a claim's
inherent improbability had never been seen as an obstacle to
believe in it, the leaders of the UFO community grew ever more
alarmed.
end of part 15


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PART 16

One leader who was not immediately alarmed was Walter H. Andrus,
Jr., director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), one of the two
largest UFO organizations in the United States (the other being
the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies [CUFOS]). In 1987,
before Lear had proposed what some wags would call the Dark Side
Hypothesis, he had offered to host the 1989 MUFON conference in
Las Vegas. Andrus agreed. But as Lear's true beliefs became
known, leading figures within MUFON expressed concern about
Lear's role in the conference. When Andrus failed to respond
quickly, MUFON officials were infuriated.

Facing a possible palace revolt, Andrus informed Lear that
Cooper, whom Lear had invited to speak at the conference, was not
an acceptable choice. But to the critics on the MUFON board and
elsewhere in the organization, this was hardly enough. One of
them, longtime ufologist Richard Hall, said this was "like
putting a Band-Aid on a hemorrhage" (Hall, 1989). In a heated
telephone exchange Andrus called Hall's objections to Lear "just
one man's opinion" and claimed support, which turned out not to
exist, from other MUFON notables. In a widely-distributed open
letter to Andrus, Hall wrote, "Having Lear run the symposium and
be a major speaker at it is comparable to NICAP in the 1960's
having George Adamski run a NICAP conference! " (NICAP, the
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, of which
Hall was executive secretary in the late 1950s and much of the
1960s, was a conservative UFO-research organization which
attacked as fraudulent the claims of Adamski, who wrote books
about his meetings with Venusians and distributed photographs of
what he said were their spaceships.) Hall went on, "You seem to
be going for the colorful and the spectacular rather than for the critical-minded approach of science; you even expressed the view-
in effect-that having a panel to question Lear critically would
be good show biz and the 'highlight' of the symposium. Maybe so,
but it obviously would dominate the entire program, grab off all
major news media attention, and put UFO research in the worst
possible light." Hall declared, "I am hereby resigning from the
MUFON Board and I request that my name be removed from all MUFON
publications or papers that indicate me to be a Board Member."

Fearing more resignations, Andrus moved to make Lear barely more
than a guest at his own conference. He was not to lecture there,
as previously planned, and hosting duties would be handled, for
the most part, by others. Lear ended up arranging an "alternative
conference" at which he, Cooper, English and Don Ecker presented
the latest elaborations on the Dark Side Hypothesis.
Meanwhile another storm was brewing. On March 1, 1989, an
Albuquerque ufologist, Robert Hastings, issued a 13-page
statement, with 37 pages of appended documents, and mailed it to
many of ufology's most prominent individuals. Hastings opened
with these remarks:

"First, it has been established that 'Falcon,' one of the
principle [sic] sources of the MJ-12 material, is Richard C.
Doty, formerly attached to District 17 Air Force Office of
Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Kirtland Air Force Base,
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sgt. Doty retired from the U.S. Air
Force on October 1, 1988.


"How do I know that Doty is 'Falcon?' During a recent telephone
conversation, Linda Moulton Howe told me that when Sgt. Doty
invited her to his office at Kirtland AFB in early April 1983,
and showed her a purportedly authentic U.S. government document
on UFOs, he identified himself as code-name 'Falcon' and stated
that it was Bill Moore who had given him that name.

"Also, in early December 1988, a ranking member of the
production team responsible for the 'UFO Cover Up?-Live'
television documentary confirmed that Doty is 'Falcon.' This same
individual also identified the second MJ-12 source who appeared
on the program, 'Condor' as Robert Collins who was, until
recently, a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. Like Doty, he was
stationed at KAFB when he left the service late last year."
(Collins, a scientist, was assigned to the plasma physics group
at Sandia National Laboratories on the Kirtland Air Force Base.
Following his retirement he moved to Indiana and remains actively
interested in UFOs.)

Hastings reviewed evidence of Doty's involvement in the
concoction of various questionable documents and stories,
including the Ellsworth tale and the Weitzel affair. He also
noted important discrepancies between the paper Howe saw and the
MJ-12 briefing document. For example, while the first mentioned
the alleged Aztec crash, the second said nothing about it at all.
Hastings wondered, "[I]f the briefing paper that Sgt. Doty showed
to Linda Howe was genuine, what does that say about the accuracy
(and authenticity) of the Eisenhower document? If, on the other
hand, the former was bogus and was meant to mislead Howe for some
reason, what does that say about Richard 'Falcon' Doty's
reliability as a source for MJ-12 material as a whole?"
(Hastings, 1989). Hastings also had much critical to say about
Moore, especially about an incident in which Moore had flashed a
badge in front of ufologist/cover-up investigator Lee Graham and
indicated he was working with the government on a project to
release UFO information. (Moore would characterize this as a
misguided practical joke.)

Both Moore and Doty denied that the latter was Falcon. They
claimed Doty had been given that pseudonym long after the 1983
meeting with Howe. Howe, however, stuck by her account. Moore and
Doty said the real Falcon, an older man than Doty had been in the
studio audience as the video of his interview was being broadcast
on UFO Cover-up. . . Live. Doty himself was in New Mexico
training with the state police.
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PART 17

Moore's Confession: By mid-1989 the two most controversial
figures in ufology were Moore and Lear. Moore's MUFON lecture on
July 1 did nothing to quiet his legion of critics. On his arrival
in Las Vegas, Moore checked into a different hotel from the one
at which the conference was being held. He already had refused to
submit his paper for publication in the symposium proceedings, so
no one knew what he would say. He had also stipulated that he
would accept no questions from the floor.

Moore's speech stunned and angered much of the audience. At one
point the shouts and jeers of Lear's partisans brought
proceedings to a halt until order was restored. Moore finished
and exited immediately. He left Las Vegas not long afterwards.

In his lecture Moore spoke candidly, for the first time, of his
part in the counterintelligence operation against Bennewitz. "My
role in the affair," he said, "was largely that of a freelancer
providing information on Paul's current thinking and activities."
Doty, "faithfully carrying out orders which he personally found
distasteful," was one of those involved in the effort to confuse
and discredit Bennewitz. Because of his success at this effort,
Moore suggested, Doty was chosen by the real "Falcon" as "liaison
person, although I really don't know. Frankly, I don't believe
that Doty does either. In my opinion he was simply a pawn in a
much larger game, just as I was."

From disinformation passed on by AFOSI sources, and his own
observations and guesses, according to Moore, "by mid-1982"
Bennewitz had put together a story that "contained virtually all
of the elements found in the current crop of rumors being
circulated around the UFO community." Moore was referring to the
outlandish tales Lear and Cooper were telling. Moore said that
"when I first ran into the disinformation operation . . . being
run on Bennewitz . . . [i)t seemed to me . . . I was in a rather
unique position. There I was with my foot . . . in the door of a
secret counterintelligence game that gave every appearance of
being somehow directly connected to a high-level government UFO
project, and, judging by the positions of the people I knew to be
directly involved with it, definitely had something to do with
national security! There was no way I was going to allow the
opportunity to pass me by without learning at least something
about what was going on. . . . I would play the disinformation
game, get my hands dirty just often enough to lead those
directing the process into believing that I was doing exactly
what they wanted me to do, and all the while continue to burrow
my way into the matrix so as to learn as much as possible about
who was directing it and why." Some of the same people who were
passing alleged UFO secrets on to Moore were also involved in the
operation against Bennewitz. Moore knew that some of the material
he was getting--essentially a mild version of the Bennewitz
scenario, without the horror, paranoia and conspiracy--was false,
but he (along with Jaime Shandera and Stanton Friedman, to whom
he confided the cover-up story in June 1982; Friedman, however,
would not learn of Moore's role in the Bennewitz episode until
seven years later) felt that some of it was probably true, since
an invariable characteristic of disinformation is that it
contains some facts. Moore also said that Linda Howe had been the
victim of one of Doty's disinformation operations.

Before he stopped cooperating with such schemes in 1984, Moore
said, he had given "routine information" to AFOSI about certain
other individuals in the UFO community. Subsequently he claimed
that during this period this emphasis) "three other members of
the UFO community . . . were actively doing the same thing. I
have since learned of a fourth. . . . All four are prominent
individuals whose identities, if disclosed, would cause
considerable controversy in the UFO community and bring serious
embarrassment to two of its major organizations. To the best of
my knowledge, at least two of these people are still actively
involved" (Moore, 1989b).

Although he would not reveal the identities of the government
informants within ufology, Moore gave the names of several
persons "who were the subject of intelligence community interest
between 1980 and 1984." They were:

(1) Len Stringfield, a ufologist known for his interest in
crashed-disc stories; in 1980 he had been set up by a counterintelligence operative who gave him phony pictures of what
purported to be humanoids in cold storage.

(2) The late Pete Mazzola, whose knowledge of film footage from
a never-publicized Florida UFO case was of great interest to counterintelligence types. Moore was directed to urge Mazzola to
send the footage to ufologist Kal Korff (who knew nothing of the
scheme) for analysis; then Moore would make a copy and pass it on
to Doty. But Mazzola never got the film, despite promises, and
the incident came to nothing. "I was left with the impression,"
Moore wrote, "that the file had been intercepted and the
witnesses somehow persuaded to cease communication with Mazzola."

(3) Peter Gersten, legal counsel for Citizens Against UFO
Secrecy (CAUS), who had spearheaded a (largely unsuccessful)
legal suit against the NSA seeking UFO information.

(4) Larry Fawcett, an official of CAUS and coauthor of a book on
the cover-up, Clear Intent (1984).

(5) James and Coral Lorenzen, the directors of the Aerial
Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) periodically "subjects of
on-again, off again interest . . . mostly passive monitoring
rather than active meddling," according to Moore. Between 1980
and 1982 APRO employed a "cooperative" secretary who passed on
confidential material to counterintelligence personnel.

(6) Larry W. Bryant, who was battling without success in the
courts to have UFO secrets revealed. Moore said, "His name came
up often in discussions but I never had any direct involvement in
whatever activities revolved around him."

These revelations sent shock waves through the UFO community. In
September CAUS devoted virtually all of an issue of its magazine
Just Cause to a harshly critical review of Moore's activities.
Barry Greenwood declared that the "outrageousness" of Moore's
conduct "cannot be described. Moore, one of the major critics of
government secrecy on UFOs, had covertly informed on people who
thought he was their friend and colleague. Knowing full well that
the government people with whom he was dealing were active disinformants, Moore pursued a relationship with them and
observed the deterioration of Paul Bennewitz'[s] physical and
mental health. . . . Moore reported the effects of the false
information regularly to some of the very same people who were
'doing it' to Paul. And Moore boasted in his speech as to how
effective it was" (Greenwood, 1989). Greenwood complained further
about Moore's admission that on the disastrous Cover-up . . .
Live show Falcon and Condor had said things that they knew were
untrue. "In the rare situation where two hours of prime time
television are given over to a favorable presentation of UFOs,
here we have a fair portion of the last hour wasted in presenting
what Moore admits to be false data. . . . Yet he saw fit to go
ahead and carry on a charade, making UFO research look ridiculous
in the process. Remarks by Falcon and Condor about the aliens'
lifestyle and preference for Tibetan music and strawberry ice
cream were laughable." So far as Greenwood and CAUS, skeptical of
the MJ-12 briefing document from the first, were concerned, "July
1, 1989, may well be remembered in the history of UFO research as
the day when the 'Majestic 12' story came crashing to Earth in a
heap of rubble. Cause of death: Suicide!"
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