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                Info-ParaNet Newsletters   Volume I  Number 345

                           Tuesday, January 8th 1991

Today's Topics:

                                     Cooper
                                 Cooper, Part 2
                                 Cooper, Part 3
                                 Cooper, Part 4
                                 Cooper, Part 5
                                 Cooper, Part 6
                               Cooper, Conclusion
                                 Whistle. file 3
                                 From the Editor

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Cooper
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:31:00 GMT

To All;

As many of you know, UFO Magazine completed a story and investigation on Milton
Wm. Cooper in Vol. 5, No. 4 and 5.
Cooper, a very controversial figure in the UFO field, has been making claims
and pronouncments for the last several years. We spoke to many that know him,
and for you folks that are new here at ParaNet, Cooper made his debut right
here. At that time ( in 1988 ) he was "made" as a fraud by the former
Administrator Jim Speiser, and was removed from the system.

I have just received a copy of "NEW TIMES" NEXUS, a magazine that is published
in Australia. The issue is Volume 2 Issue 1 dated October 1990. In this
magazine is a story by Cooper with his "Operation Majority".  Now during the
UFO Magazine investigation, we found most of this to be fabricated or
information that Cooper plagerized. However it is a fact of life that not
everyone reads UFO, and Cooper is public in every area he can attain to. So I
am going to place the entire Two part story right here for all of ParaNet to
read.

One other thing, I am also going to include a couple of things that did not
reach publication, because of space, and also the fact that at the time we did
not wish to "crucify" Cooper. However, to paraphrase George Knapp, News
Director of KLAS TV in Las Vegas, "Cooper is like a cornered rat, desperate,
vicious and vile." He has "smeared, lied, threatened, and libled everyone that
has disagreed with him. With that, here is "Whistleblowers Part ONE.

  Who are the UFO whistleblowers? They come out
of relative obscurity and burst into the center
of ufological attention. Making incredible
claims of alien activity on earth and the
Government's deep but covert involvement.
Without exception, the whistleblowers of recent
times only furnish the most hazy evidence of
their claims, if that.

  Oftentimes they will also lay
claim to having worked with or
for the government, in high
enough positions to wield security
clearances and to have observed
the most unequivocal documentation.

  Because these individuals fail
to furnish proof for their startling claims,
and because many people have asked UFO
Magazine for a readout on their
credibility,  we are beginning a
series of investigative articles on
certain individuals who fall into
the  ''whistleblower'' category.
Normally,  UFO avoids focusing
on personalities, preferring to
concentrate on the phenomenon
itself.

   But these personalities force us
to make an exception.  Their
material has appeal and sensation
value.  But is it legitimate? Who
are the whistleblowers who are
telling the truth ?  Who are the
ruthless Pied Pipers forging a
trail of lies and deception ? Our
series begins with Milton  William
Cooper.


COOPER
In the last several years, few have
stirred the field of ufology like
Milton William Cooper. Cooper,
born May 6, 1943, is a balding
47-year-old man who has enthralled
thousands with lurid tales of
dangerous UFOs and secret govern-
ment treaties allowing the alien
menace to abduct and experiment on
unwilling human victims in exchange
for advanced alien technology.
  Raining threats and pronounce-
ments over the UFO field like a con-
tinuously firing shotgun, Cooper has
recently leveled charges of govern-
ment spookery against a number of
prominent ufologists in the field, in
many cases claiming to have seen
their names on a government recruit-
ment list back in 1972 and 1973
while he was purportedly serving in
Naval Intelligence in CINCPACFLT
(Commander-in Chief, Pacific Fleet).
  Not above accusing former friends
and associates, Cooper has charged
various ufologists with illegal acts,
moral turpitude and of purveying
disinformation that permeates the
field. Now with an agent to book
speaking engagements at any and
every UFO event possible, Cooper is
very fond of stating to his audiences,
''Don't take my word for it, go out
and check the information yourself.''
UFO MagaLine has, and the follow-
ing is the result of our investigation.

Paranet debut

 Who is M. Wm. "Bill" Cooper,
and where did he come from?
Cooper's first public appearance
resulted when he uploaded a text on
ParaNet, the international computer
data service. The file alleges a fan-
tastic UFO sighting while Cooper
was a crew member of the U.S.S.
TIRU, a United States Naval sub-
marine, in 1966. According to
Cooper, the sighting took place while
he was on duty as port lookout.

--
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:310/8
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Cooper, Part 2
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:32:00 GMT

<<Continued from previous message>>

Whistleblowers ONE, Vol. 5 No. 4 UFO Magazine by Don Ecker
All rights reserved.

Claiming that the sub's skipper im-
mediately classified the incident,
Cooper reported that when the sub-
marine reached port, the witnesses
were debriefed by Naval Security.
  During this time frame of
Cooper's initial appearance on the
scene, John O. Lear, son of William
''Bill'' Lear of Lear Jet fame, had
also been undergoing ParaNet
scrutiny as a result of the release of
his hypothesis concerning an alien
threat. Lear's document, released in
December of 1987, had created quite
an uproar in its own right. Lear
alleged that the U.S. government had
entered into a relationship with a
possible ET intelligence, and in ex-
change for super technology gave
carte blanche to the ETs to conduct
experiments and abductions on un-
suspecting human beings.
  Lear also claimed that the ETs,
with our government's knowledge,
were mutilating domestic animals
such as cattle and sheep, and in some
cases even human victims. Because
much of Lear's information was
hypothesis, and little checkable infor-
mation was forthcoming, many
ParaNet members and others in the
UFO community were asking very
hard questions. In a number of in-
stances, Lear's credibility was
attacked.


  When he again visited the ParaNet
system, Cooper allied himself with
Lear, publicizing the claim that
because of releasing his UFO infor-
mation, he had just been terminated
from his $75,000 a year job as the
executive director of a commercial
business school.
  In October of 1988, Cooper con-
tacted this writer, requesting a favor.
Telling me at that time that "this is
dangerous if anyone finds out," he
asked me to aecept the electronic
transfer of a file into my computer,
to be sent to Stanton Friedman with
the information of who wanted
Friedman to see it. The document in-
cluded information about purported
government UFO involvement-
under the terms MAJI, MJ-1, THE
BlUE TEAM, GRUDGE,
etc.-and, according to Cooper,
various other alleged secret govern-
ment projects dealing with the alien
presence.  I agreed to send the infor-
mation to Friedman. (I never heard
anymore about it until later, when
Cooper was barred from ParaNet
because of' claims of feeding false
and fraudulent information.)
   I  basically forgot about the file to
Friedman until Cooper released ad-
ditional files with the claim that they
were the final release. But subsequently
Cooper was to release several "final"
releases.


  In one, he claimed,
"MJ-12 is the name of the secret
control group .  .  . The Jason Society
[was set up] to sift through all the
evidence, technology, lies and decep-
tion . . ." But later, in another file,
he stated,  ''MJ-12 cannot be used as a
name for the control group as it
would cause confusion in meaning,
i.e., is it referring to MJ-12 the per-
son or MJ-12 the group... ?'' (Italics
added) By this time, I and others
were becoming confused with the
various ''final releases.''

Project 'Luna'

  In another public release, Cooper
claimed that "Project Luna" was an
alien base on the far side of the
moon which had been observed by
various astronauts, but changed the
story in one more "Final release,"
stating that it was the code name for
an underground base near Dulce,
New Mexico.
  In Cooper's later releases are a
number of names that were never
mentioned in earlier releases, names
such as JOSHUA and O.H. KRLL
or KRLLL, or CRLL, CRLLL, or
even KRILL. When it comes to
answering whether these claims will
bear up under serious scrutiny, these
names prove to be very important, as
later information in this article will
show.

--
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:310/8
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Cooper, Part 3
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:32:00 GMT

<<< Continued from previous message >>>

UFO Magazine Vol. 5 No. 4 by Don Ecker
All rights reserved.

Cooper later claimed that the
reason the documents were ''dif-
ferent" was because he wanted to
throw the government off his trail
until someone would verify that what
he said was the truth. He stressed
that "It does not matter who is right
and who is wrong or if a project
name is in the wrong place.  .  . we
must all band together and expose it
now."
  As time progressed, Cooper
severed all ties with other researchers
in the UFO field. At one time a very
close confidant of John Lear,
Cooper has turned on Lear and now
accuses him of being an agent of the
Central Intelligence Agency. At one
time Lear was in fact employed as a
pilot with Continental Air, a CIA
contract airline, and claims a number
of anonymous sources for his own
data, facts which may lend suspicion
to his background and information.
But Lear denies any current alliance
with the agency and no one has been
able to prove otherwise.

  Starred on 'Happening'

Cooper now operates an elec-
tronic bulletin board service, the
Citizen's Agency for Joint In-
telligence (CAJI). In his last two
electronic newsletters, Cooper has
leveled charges against numerous
people in the UFO community.
When anyone challenges him, he
will once more blast the questioner
as an ''agent of the secret govern-
ment."

 Cooper has been a star guest on
the ''Billy Goodman Happening,'' a
recently-revived radio show broadcast
on KVEG-AM in Las Vegas.
Another alleged former government
employee, physicist Robert ''Bob''
Lazar, appeared on the Goodman
radio show. Initially Cooper was
lavish in his praise of Lazar's will-
ingness to come forward to expose
the cosmic secret. Now, like Lear,
Lazar is suffering Cooper's allega-
tions of being a purveyor of in-
telligence disinformation.

 In a previous edition of his
newsletter, which was released dur-
ing the first half of April, Cooper
charged that Lazar, the "self
claimed physicist who worked on
saucers, was arrested today for par-
ticipation in one of Las Vegas' pro-
stitution rings. He was also accused
or running a drug lab which
manufactures methamphetamine.''
When Lear heard about these allega-
tions against Lazar, he said, "It's
all fabrication and fantasy. "

  And at that time, it was. There is
record of police interest in Lazar
during that time-Lazar had admit-
ted on television that he had set up
software for a bordello, and shortly
thereafter members of the Las Vegas
vice squad, bearing a warrant,
searched his premises. The bordello
was subsequently closed by police,
but Lazar wasn't formally arrested
and charged until June 4. A plea
negotiation ensued, and Lazar ended
up pleading guilty to one count of
felony pandering. But at press time,
no other charges had been filed, and
no suspicion of drug activity has
ever been officially or unofficially
voiced.

 With respect to all of these allega-
tions against Lazar, Cooper claims
to have received the information from
John Lear, as well as from two additonal
UFO buffs, Cory Testa and Geoff Graff.



Testa, when
told of Cooper's statements, was
shocked at the allegation that Lear
had claimed Lazar was facing drug
violations. Testa states, "I still
believe that he (Lazar) is real and
[that] John Lear never said anything
like that.'' Testa later called back
and said that he had talked to
Cooper, and that Cooper had
denied naming him as having said
anything about Lazar. The
paragraph from the CAJI newsletter
was read to him four times and he
responded sadly, ''You know, I am
just a guy who is really interested in
UFOs, and I never wanted to get in-
volved in anything like this. Why
would Bill say I said something like
that?" For his part, Graff
vehemently denies ever making any
statements of this nature to Cooper.

--
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:310/8
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Cooper, Part 4
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:33:00 GMT

<<<<Continued from previous message >>>>

More charges

  Additional charges in Cooper's


newsletter included naming Lear and
Lazar as members of a "ring" of
government agents that ''include the
greats of ufology." Cooper also
named Bruce Maccabee, William
Moore, Jaime Shandera, Stanton
Friedman, and made similar allega-
tions about others left unnamed at
that time. With that document,
Cooper left the impression that the
others would include whomever
questioned his sources, information
or allegations.
  Cooper also claimed that Stayce
Borland, a woman who at one time
led a Las Vegas contactee group,
was murdered after she had spon-
sored a talk with Budd Hopkins and
had received a document from a
man who reportedly worked at
"Dreamland," site of high-tech air-
craft testing and alleged alien activity
at Nellis Air Force Base.
  Also alleged in Cooper's CAJI
newsletter was that when still active-
duty Air Force NCO John Grace
took over Borland's contactee
group, and when the police in-
vestigation into her murder was
started, the list of the contactee
group members and the sign-in sheet
from Hopkins talk were missing.

--
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:310/8
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Cooper, Part 5
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:33:00 GMT

<<<<<Continued from previous messag>>>>>

File 4 Whistleblowers Part ONE

UFO Magazine Vol 5 No 4 by Don Ecker

All rights reserved.

cont. from last.

  These were serious inferences, if
true, so UFO immediately contacted
George Knapp of KLAS-TV in Las
Vegas. Knapp and his associates had
looked into the Borland murder in
the course of producing the KLAS-
TV documentary, ''UFOs: The Best
Evidence.'' According to Knapp,
Hopkins was in Las Vegas weeks
after Borland and her brother were
found dead. Borland's boyfriend
was the initial suspect, but was
quickly cleared by the Las Vegas
Police. The search then centered on
a 24-year old suspect, William Mit-
chell Smith, also known as William
"Bo" Stevens. No UFO involve-
ment at all was discovered by police.

Knapp Letter

  In a now-public letter to Michael
Corbin, director of ParaNet, Knapp
states, "Bill Cooper wouldn't know
the truth if it bit him on the ass..."
Then, in reference to Cooper's
allegation of a ufological spy ring,
Knapp wrote, ". . . a secret
organization is highly unlikely.
Moore (Bill) and Lear can't stand
each other.
  "Moore and Friedman have tried
to contact Lazar through me on
several occasions. . . Some of the


individuals have provided me with
proof of Cooper's dishonesty, proof
that will be made public in the near
future.''
  Knapp was true to his word. In
part five of his second UFO special
recently aired by KLAS, Knapp
pointed out one such occurrence
where serious questions about
Cooper's information were raised.
According to Cooper, in his pur-
ported viewing of a top-secret
government document in 1972-1973,
he saw information about O.H.
Krill, which according to Cooper
stood for ''Original Hostage Krill.''
  The problem with this particular
claim by Cooper, however, comes
from the two people involved in the
O.H. Krill document. The origin of
the controversial document has been
known for some time in the UFO
field. Conceived by UFO researcher
John Grace, who heads the Nevada
Aerial Research organization and
who uses the pseudonym ''Val
Valerian," the title was chosen as an
inside joke, according to both Lear
and Grace. Lear told UFO that he
heard Cooper tell a television inter-
viewer that he (Cooper) had seen the
O.H. Krill document back in the
early '70s. That made Lear turn
"beet red," he said. He motioned
for Cooper to speak to him private-
ly.
  Lear then informed Cooper,


 ''Bill, O.H. Krill is a joke! John
 Grace and I used 'Krill' from Bob
 Emenegger's special, 'UFOs: It Has
 Begun,' because of a woman
 who allegedly channeled an entity
 named CRYLLL. Grace just pulled
 the 0. H. out of thin air!" Accord-
 ing to Lear, Cooper flatly disagreed,
 saying, "No, I saw it in 1972." Lear
said, ''I dropped it then. I could see
that there was no talking to him. I
then began to wonder just how
much of Bill Cooper was real."

 Sources questioned

   Cooper alleges that Lear is the
shadowy Condor from William
Moore's anonymous intelligence
''aviary.'' Cooper happened to tell
this to Testa, who was then an
associate of Lear's. "Everyone I
was associated with-Cooper
claimed that they were government
agents.''
  Moore's apparent association with
unnamed government agents has
aIso brought him under fire by
many in the UFO community. His
admitted participation in a disinfor-
mation scheme and claims of ongo-
ing associations with these agents
have incited a good many suspi-
cions, which, in Cooper's case, have
mushroomed nto full-blown allega-
tions. When asked about Cooper's
claim that Condor is actually Lear,
Moore vehemently denied it.

--
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:310/8
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Cooper, Part 6
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:34:00 GMT

<<<<<<Continued from previous message >>>>>>

Whistleblowers Part ONE  Last part of Part ONE

UFO Magazine Vol 5 No 4 by Don Ecker

All rights reserved.


  Moore was advised that in the
CAJI newsletter, Cooper made the
claim that the tape of Condor was
placed in voice analysis, and that he
had unscrambled it, proving that
Lear was Condor. Moore laughed at
that and stated, "There is nothing
to undo, nothing to unscramble!
Jaime and I masked Condor's voice
through a vocoder.
  "The vocoder is a device that
runs the sound source through a
mike, then to a sound source send-
ing it to a voice envelope to a
vocoder. Nothing of the human
qualities are left to unscramble.''
  When asked about the additional
allegations of his being identified as
a government operative, Moore
stated, "It is absolutely false. You
know, I am getting tired of all these
accusations. Cooper is always wrap-
ping himself up in the flag and Con-
stitution .  .  . whatever happened to
the basic right of being innocent un-
til proven guilty?
  ''I have never spoken to Cooper
or had as much as a single cor-
respondence with him,'' he added,
saying he had been given a copy of
the CAJI newsletter, had just read
it, and was amazed at the contents.
  Moore's name, of course, was
supposedly on that list of people to
be recruited as government agents,
which Cooper said he viewed in
1972 and which included the names
of Stanton Friedman, John Lear
and Bruce Maccabee. He also
claimed that Bob Swan, apparently
a former Navy buddy, was also in-
formed of this back in 1972. When
questioned by mutilation researcher
Linda Howe and former reporter
Tony Pelham, among others, Swan
stated for the record that the only
thing he remembered was
"something to do with UFOs "
  It would appear that Moore
evidences few reasons to have
aroused government interest 18
Years ago. He did not really come
into the UFO scene with any great
Splash until the publication of The
Roswell Incident, in l979.  Moore
said that in l972 he was employed
as a teacher by the Herman Com-
munity Schools, Independent
District 264, in Herman, MN  where
he taught from fall of 1969 until
spring of 1979. Along with teaching,
Moore was active in the teachers
union, number 32 Local. It would
appear that back then he would have
been a very unlikely candidate for
government recruitment to the
intelligence services.

Lazar's comments

  There is still much that is
unknown about Bob Lazar. But even with
his relatively short duration in the
UFO limelight, Lazar is burned out with
the field. Under the most intense scrutiny
by the UFO community, and now facing
a criminal charge, he made his
UFO claims public with the express goal of
stopping the harrassment he says
he's undergone. Cooper's allegations
of drug involvement amount to one
more good reason for his revulsion
against the UFO field.

  When he spoke to UFO, he ex-
plained his research lab and various
scientific equipment in it. "The
'speed lab' (the term used in the
CAJI newsletter) might be explained
by my work with high-tech jet
cars," he stated. "Cooper is an in-
telligent man, and the two times I've
seen him  .  .  . well I hate to call
someone a psychopath, but he really
acts crazy. He seems to believe a lot
of what he says to the point he will
fight about it and get violent."
Lazar was referring to physical
violence, and added, "On the only
two occasions I have seen him-and
there was liquor involved, not beer
or anythrng, but liquor-he
did get violent. I walked in [to
Lear's house] with my sister-in-law .
 after a brief time talking to
Cooper, he got up, screaming and
throwing stuff around. He was a
lunatic.''
  Another of Cooper's allegations is
that Lear, once in the company of
Cooper and several others, called
Lazar up and asked him to send a
hooker over to Lear's home. Lazar
counters, "That's absurd, and why
it's absurd is that my involvement
with the bordello was in January of
1990. It mainly involved some elec-
tronic work and setting up software.

I saw Cooper long before that, and
in either case I would not be the guy
anyone called [for a prostitute]. I
had no connections to get anyone
[to perform illicit acts]. I deny his
whole allegation.'' (The criminal
case pending against Lazar will be
covered in the next issue of UFO.)
  ''Everyone seems to have a Bill
Cooper story, and mine is a paper I
wrote in Los Alamos concerning
Project Excalibur," Lazar offered,
referring to an earth-penetrating,
nuclear-tipped missile designed to
destroy underground facilities.
  "I wrote that [paper] in 1988. I
had a witness there while I typed
that word for word. (Gene Huff)
I printed it out;
Lear was hot on the trail looking
for connections, and that filled
everything in for [Lear]. He essen-
tially had all the [Project Excalibur]
information that was to be had.


  "John then gave a copy to Bill
Cooper, and I heard Cooper reading
it verbatim, word for word, at the
(1989) MUFON convention. He
claimed to have seen it in the
mid-'70s. I then heard him on the
Billy Goodman show. I called him;
he recognized the voice. He said he
knew who I was. I then asked him,
'Bill, that Excalibur missile thing,
did you get that at John Lear's or
did you read that in the'70's?'
  ''I gave him an out if he had
forgotten. He said no, 'I read that
word for word in 1973.' I said okay
and thanks. That was my first con-
firmation that this guy was a com-
plete liar.''
  According to Lazar, the Excalibur
document was then only a year old,
while Cooper was claiming to have
seen it in 1973 - 16 years before.

END OF WHISTLEBLOWERS PART ONE

--
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Cooper, Conclusion
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:34:00 GMT

<<<<<<<Conclusion>>>>>>>

STORY SIDEBAR FOLLOWS WITH NEXT MESSAGE.

WHISTLEBLOWERS PART ONE  SIDEBAR.



  In his CAJI newsletter, Cooper
stated that "No one likes to be a
fool, but most ufologists are ex-
actly that. I keep saying to do
research, to investigate, but no
one does it. They just sit around
and call each other names.'' This
reporter, representing UFO
Magazine, attempted to contact
Cooper to verify his claims by
leaving a message on his com-
puter service.
  Cooper read the message and
called about an hour later. When
I answered the phone, Cooper
growled, "What the hell do you
want!?" When I attempted to ex-
plain that I was doing a story for
UFO and wanted to verify his
claims, he shot back, "What are
you writing for your f***in'
trashzine?" I then said that I had
received a copy of the CAJI
newsletter and he replied, ''I
would be very careful if I was
you. That newsletter is
copyrighted.''

   Cooper then stated, "I don't
trust you or anyone you are
associated with. " The only
response I was able to get con-
cerned the allegation that Bob
Lazar ran a speed lab. "John
Lear told me that out of his own
mouth .  .  . I got the information
from a man named Cory and
eoff who are good friends of
John Lear. "

  Just at that moment the phone
rang with the call waiting feature,
and Cooper refused to hold 'til I
could find out who was calling.
He refused to speak any further
and hung up. This seems out of
character for a person who claims
that his information is legitimate.
  As UFO Magazine was going
to press, and as we expected,
Cooper's newest newsletter at-
tacked this writer and the
magazine. Cooper now claims
that Cory Testa was intimidated
by UFO regarding the claims that
Bob Lazar is involved with drugs,
and that UFO or myself or both
are a part of Cooper's paranoiac
''secret government.''
  The absurdity of this speaks
for itself. But for the record,
UFO will attempt to get Testa's
version of this. Researching and
accurately reporting facts are not
Cooper's strong  suit.-D.E.

--
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:310/8
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From: [e-mail] (Don Ecker)
Subject: Whistle. file 3
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:04:00 GMT

This information was not included into the Cooper story, and as
promised, I will now relay it.

Cooper, during his initial exposure in the public, was on the Billy
Goodman Happening over a year ago. One of the people that heard
Cooper was a well known Hollywood entertainment figure, Michael
Callan. Callan was fascinated by the information that Cooper was
giving, and ended up contacting Cooper. Callan, and a close friend
of his, Doug Deane, decided that they would use their entertainment
contacts, and professionally "market" Cooper. Callan and Deane set
up a business called "Need to Know Productions", and sunk money
into setting up Cooper on the "lecture tour".

Callan and Deane videoed Coopers lectures, and gave him the benefit
of their combined knowledge of Hollywood to go out and sell
himself. Setting up Cooper at lectures, and finding an agent for
him at "Spotlight Enterprises", Callan and Deane made a heavy
investiment. Cooper signed a contract with Deane and Callan, and
when he saw how much money he "could" be making, tried to squeeze
Callan and Deane out of their contract. Callan had had suspicions
earlier when Cooper spoke to him about trying to squeeze Stan
Barrington (business manager) out, but then Cooper found out that
it would cost him $15,000. Barrington stayed, but one night, Cooper
indulging in his childish temper tantrums, and drinking heavily,
made 10 ( thats TEN ) phone calls to both Callan and Deane,
threatening them with public ruin, death, property damage, and
slander if they did not give him the master copies of the tapes
that they had videoed for him. Both men (Callan and Deane) ended up
phoning the police, and they had Cooper placed on file.  Later,
Cooper went to Deanes home, was witnessed by Deanes gardner, and
tried to force his way into Deanes house. Later, when Deane
returned home, found all the tires on his car slashed.  It is
interesting to note, that one of Coopers threats to Deane mentioned
his car tires. The police investigated, but it ended up that no
charges were filed.

Prior to the above events, one of Coopers invitations to speak were
from a German UFO groups. Cooper was invited by Michael Hesseman,
a German "New Age UFOlogists" to appear in Germany.  Cooper had
accepted, and demanded 5000 Duetch Marks ( $3000 US ) plus his
plane ticket, room, board, and the other things that Hesseman had
promised.  Hesseman sent Cooper all of the above, but because of a
German Postal Strike, word of the event was late in getting out in
Europe. Cooper had planned, according to Hesseman, in making money
in "workshops" while the UFO event was going on, and because the
event would not be so well attended, became upset. Hesseman offered
to rescedual the event, or set it up later, but Cooper refused, and
then told Hesseman that if he wanted him to come, he needed another
5000 Duetch marks, or he refused. Hesseman did not have the money,
so Cooper informed Hesseman that he would not fly over, and then
refused to refund Hessemans cash.


cont. next file, from UFO Magazine Co-Publisher,

Ms. Vicki Cooper.

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From: [e-mail] (Don Ecker)
Subject: From the Editor
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:06:00 GMT

And UFO MAGAZINE CO-Publisher says. . . .


  There you have it. Don Ecker's ar-
ticle, documentary reports researched
and produced by George Knapp of
KLAS-TV and what Cooper has
published in his CAJI newsletter are
part of a growing information base
which should demonstrate why we
have chosen not to give space to the
often false and specious claims that
Cooper purveys.

  It is not our intention to single out
individuals and ''pick on'' them; it's
simply very important that the truth
or the closest thing to it be establish-
ed. A close reading of our
whistleblowers series, as it pro-
gresses, will demonstrate that there
are people in this field who have set
themselves up for examination and
whose claims of truth are, at best,
cleverly-mouthed chunks of pro-
paganda; some if not most will be
found wanting. Milton William
Cooper has threatened, lied about
and attacked a number of people in
the UFO field (I'm included, as is
Don Ecker). Along with slander and
lying, he has a clear history of con-
tradicting himself, backtracking when
caught in those contradictions and
then attempting to patch up his story
with a turnaround position based on
sudden new claims that, true to style,
cannot be checked out.

  A Bill Cooper could not maintain
a foothold in any other field. Such a
bullying personality would
have been "run out of town" long
ago. But the fact that this man and
others like him still can command
some audience and are seen as hav-
ing some veracity and authority
denotes a sore lack of discrimination
on the part of many in the UFO
arena, if not outright foolishness.

  But it should be likewise emphasiz-
ed that this syndrome also testifies to
our collective frustration with the lies
and secret machinations of some
powerful persons in the U.S. govern-
ment, cultivating many people's will-
ingness to listen and 'follow just
about anyone who purports to be
defending the Constitution and who
vocally demands accountability from
the very government officials in
whom we should be able to place our
trust.

   It's so very important: Dedication
to the absolute truth, to
the finer points of democracy, when
exercised without caution and
discernment, plays right into the
hands of those who would short-
circuit those very precious qualities
we hold dear. "Users" of all political
persuasions will exploit the emotional
fervor of the crowd to further their
own selfish and inhumane ends.
(Some names to remember: Adolf
Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph
Stalin, Joe McCarthy.)

  It's imperative that
we - and I include everyone who
shares the vision of UFO Mag-
azine-short-circuit such per-
niciousness at its very core, striking
at the heart of demagoguery with
persistent courage and honesty.
  Only personal commitment to
humane and truthful ideals, and the
willingness to expose the truth, can
successfully overcome The Big Lie.
UFO Magazine honors just such a
commitment. -  Vicki Cooper



and now Don Ecker's sidebar.

cont. next

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