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From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy,sci.skeptic
Subject: CITE: Jacques Vallee on MJ-12 Docs - REVELATIONS
Message-ID: <1993Feb11.025502.5720@bilver.uucp>
Date: 11 Feb 93 02:55:02 GMT
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Lines: 138
Hi Folks,
I often get asked as to whether the infamous MJ-12 docs are authentic
or hoaxed. The general consensus is that they are fraudulent documents
to most people who research the topic. I like to cite this particular
excerpt in Valle's book, "Revelations" that puts it in perspective.
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Mon 8 Feb 93 0:50
By: Don Allen
To: Edward Swaim
Re: MJ12, area51, etc.
St: Local Sent
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> Nobody proved it was fake. I was merely repeating hearsay--
> just as everyone else in the UFO business does...
Well, I do know that the consensus is that it's most likely faked
but Caped Crusader Stanton Friedman would differ with you <g>.
Here's what Jacques Vallee wrote about it in "Revelations"
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Excerpt from "Revelations" , by Jacques Vallee from Chapter 2,
"Majestic 12"
** Begin excerpt **
ln December 1984 an anonymously mailed package reached Los Angeles
television producer Jaime Shandera. In it was a roll of undeveloped film
that turned out to contain eight pages of information, evidently from a
November 1952 classified document. It included a cover letter addressed to
President Eisenhower and mentioned top secret data about the crash of an
unidentified flying object at Roswell, New Mexico.
Revelation of the existence of these documents by Jaime Shandera, Bill
Moore, and Stanton Friedman elicted various reactions among UFO enthusiasts.
Most of them said, "We told you so! The proof of the coverup is at hand at
last."
Others, suspecting that the three researchers might be the targets of a
manipulation or a hoax, wisely withheld comment. Skeptics like Phillip Klass
went so far as to suggest that Bill Moore had manufactured the documents and
mailed them to his friend. Accusations flew back and forth, becoming
increasingly technical. Did the font of the typewriter match the machines
used at the time? Did the style of the dates correspond to the correct
military format, to the personal habits of the alleged official authors, or
more prosaically, to one of the suspected perpetrators of a hoax? One of the
early believers, ufologist Stanton Friedman, obtained a $16,000 grant from
Dr. Bruce Maccabee's Fund for UFO Research to study the matter in depth.
Predictably, his conclusion, released in mid-1990, was that the documents
were genuine, but he brought no new evidence to prove it. The controversy
may never be completely resolved, but it did produce some very interesting
facts and some even more fascinating questions.
According to Stanton Friedman, there are three primary "MJ-12" texts. The
roll of film received by Shandera contained a document entitled "Briefing
for President-Elect Eisenhower, " dated November 18, 1952, consisting of
eight pages. The last page was a memo under President Truman's signature to
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, dated September 24, 1947. These two
items were the extent of the initial "leak."
Sensational confirmation of their validity seemed to come to light when a
third unsigned document was found in the National Archives. Dated July 14,
1954, it was a memo from Robert Cutler, Eisenhower's Special Assistant for
National Security, to General Nathan Twining Air Force Chief of Staff. It
read, "The President has decided that the MJ-12 SSP briefing should take
place during the already scheduled White House meeting of July 16 rather
than following it as previously intended." Cutler did not sign the document,
but his name and title are typed at the bottom of the page. The expression
"MJ 12" referred to the Majestic Twelve, a group of experts secretly
studying UFO evidence.
According to Friedman, this document could not have been planted in the
National Archives because, "it was in a classified box in a classified
vault." This statement only makes sense if we assume that the individual
responsible for the planting did not have access to the classified box in
question. If MJ-12 is an inside job, designed and executed by a rogue group
within the intelligence community-which is the most likely explanation
today-then Friedman's argument is obviously flawed. There are other reasons
to believe that MJ-12 is a fake. Queried about this particular document, the
Archives issued a memorandum, dated July 22, 1987, and signed by Jo Ann
Williamson, Chief of the Military Reference Branch, pointing out that "this
particular document poses problems" for many different reasons. It does not
bear a top secret register number, an official government letter-head or a
watermark, it is the only document referring to MJ-12 in the folder in
question; a search for other relevant documents has located nothing; and the
marking TOP SECRET RESTRICTED INFORMATION was not used during the Eisenhower
administration (it only came into use at the National Security Council under
Nixon). Furthermore, there are no records of an NSC meeting on July 16,
1954. Robert Cutler was visiting military installations in Europe and North
Africa on the day he was supposed to have issued the memorandum.
In other words, the National Archives does not believe the memorandum is
genuine. This does not mean, of course, that some project called MJ-12 does
not or did not, exist. Nor does it resolve the larger issue of the possible
existence of aliens, dead or alive. It only deepens the mystery and it
raises new questions.
Among the new questions is the identity and motivation of the sender.
If we are dealing with a genuine Deep Throat, why does he (or she) choose
people like Shandera,Moore and Friedman, who are obscure as far as the
national media are concerned? Why not select a well-known journalist, a
reputable science writer, or an established, credible scientist? It he has
decided to work exclusively with, people in the UFO field, he still has a
wide choice of targets, including some who have the ability to check up and
convince themselves of the genuineness of such documents. Yet our mystery
source selected a group that was likeIy to accept the information
uncritically, people had already staked a definitive position on the alleged
cover-up and would find it very conveniently confirmed by the documents.
Predictably, he missed his objective of convincing the nation that M1J-12
was genuine: only a handful of hardcore believers have accepted Friedman's
conclusions. This is not the way the Deep Throat of Watergate proceeded. He
sought out the most influential of Washington media, selected two aggressive
investigative journalists, and encouraged them to ask their own questions
(his recommendation to "follow the money!" was a major key). The MJ-12
source operates as the manipulator of a contrived disinformation leak rather
than as a real whistleblower with something at stake, or as the deeply
concerned person who has decided to expose a genuine scandal once and for
all.
** End excerpt **
Don
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