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Sun 28 Feb 93 12:40
By: Don Allen
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Re: Whistleblowers - Cooper
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This was written by Don Ecker in the summer of 1990 for UFO Magazine,
in which it appeared as part of a series.

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      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. All Rights Reserved UFO Magazine.

                                   ---ooo---

      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 government treaties allowing the alien menace to abduct  and
    experiment  on  unwilling human victims in exchange for advanced  alien
    technology.

      Raining  threats  and  pronouncements  over  the  UFO  field  like  a
    continuously  firing  shotgun,  Cooper has recently leveled charges  of
    government  spookery  against a number of prominent ufologists  in  the
    field,  in many cases claiming to have seen their names on a government
    recruitment 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 Magazine has,  and  the
    following 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 fantastic
    UFO  sighting  while Cooper was a crew member of the U.S.S.   TIRU,   a
    United  States  Naval submarine,  in 1966.  According to  Cooper,   the
    sighting took place while he was on duty as port lookout.

      Claiming  that the sub's skipper immediately classified the incident,
    Cooper  reported that when the submarine 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 exchange for super  technology  gave
    carte  blanche  to  the ETs to conduct experiments  and  abductions  on
    unsuspecting 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 information was forthcoming,  many ParaNet members
    and  others in the UFO community were asking very hard questions.  In a
    number of instances, 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 contacted this writer, requesting a favor.
    Telling  me at that time that "this is dangerous if anyone finds  out,"
    he  asked  me  to  accept 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 included  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 government projects dealing with the alien presence.  I
    agreed  to  send the information 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
    additional  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 deception . . ." 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
    person 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.

    Whistleblowers Part Two

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


      In part one of this series,  UFO focused on the background of  Milton
    Wm.  Cooper. Cooper's information raises many questions,  especially in
    light of its sensationalist nature and the potential harm it may  cause
    to unsuspecting, gullible innocents.

      During the  latter  part of 1988  and the very first  part  of  1989,
    Cooper's  story varied widely from what he is presently  disseminating.
    In  early  January  1989,   Cooper  was  interviewed  by  a  California
    researcher,   Paul  Shepherd.   An excerpt of this  interview  follows.
    Cooper:   "While  serving  in the  United   States  Navy  in  1972,   I
    participated  the intelligence briefing team of the Commander-in  Chief
    of  the United States Pacific Fleet . During this participation on  the
    intelligence briefing team,  I came across a document called the Grudge
    Bluebook  Report  Number  13,   and a file called the  Majesty  File  .
    classified  Above Top Secret with a MAJIC classification,  which  means
    MAJI controlled;  MAJIC is the Majestic Agency for Joint  Intelligence.
    It  is the organization that controls all the operations with UFOs  and
    with an alien race that is present on the Earth."  In later interviews,
    and  especially after he began accusing researcher Bill Moore of  being
    an agent of the secret government,  Cooper began claiming that any file
    with the word "Majestic or forms thereof, are a fraud, a lie."

      Attempting  to  check on Cooper's claim of belonging to  a  permanent
    intelligence briefing team while serving in the Navy between 1970   and
    1973, which would have allowed him access to some classified documents,
    UFO  called the United States Navy to determine how the  Navy  conducts
    its briefing teams.  UFO spoke to Lt. Commander Ron Morse at the Office
    of Information-West.

      Lt.   Commander  Morse  stated that the Navy did not  have  permanent
    briefing teams, but would form a temporary one on a need basis.

      "Usually if a team is put together, it will last for no more that two
    weeks," Morse said.

      Many  of Cooper's claims have been disputed not only by John Lear and
    Bob Lazar,  but also by Tony Pelham,  former reporter for the Las Vegas
    Bullet newspaper.  All three men told UFO Magazine that Cooper admitted
    early  on  that he had never been on a briefing team,  but had in  fact
    "taken the documents, copied them and then returned them."

      "Cooper told me that while he worked on the graveyard shift, he would
    wait for the Lt.  JG [Junior grade] to go on a coffee break,  and  then
    somehow get into the classified files," Pelham said. "l asked him if he
    broke into the files, but he never answered me.

      "Cooper  then told would take a number of files,copy them,  and  then
    carry them out in his lunch pail.  He said he did this until he got all
    the files he needed."  Cooper called Pelham in early August.  "He asked
    me  why I had turned away from him.  He is really upset about  all  the
    people who are attacking him . he said that if I turned against him, he
    will  crucify me next."  Pelham also reports that when he asked  Cooper
    about his claim that all his stolen government documents were lost in a
    garage fire, Cooper refused to give the date or location of the fire so
    Pelham  could  check  the police or fire records,  and  would  give  no
    explanation for refusing to provide information that would validate his
    story.

      Other   unsubstantiated   information  from  Cooper  has   apparently
    stimulated the fears and concerns of some people who have undergone the
    "abduction"experience.   East coast researcher Marianne Shenefield,   a
    nationally-known abductee who works with many abductees,  called UFO on
    several  occasions  and expressed her own concern about what she  heard
    while  dealing  with  abduction victims.  She  told  UFO,   "When  Bill
    Cooper's paper 'The Secret Government'  came out,  I  had abductees all
    over the U.S. calling me. Cooper said in his paper, and was claiming in
    his  lectures,  that the government was going to round up abductees and
    put them in concentration camps.

      "I  knew it was going too far when two abductees whom I  have  worked
    with  were talking about committing suicide.  They were terrified  that
    the  Army  was  going  to come into their homes and take  them  off  to
    concentration camps."

      Cooper  has stated that he doesn't care who his information hurts  or
    who  it helps,  but that he will continue to put it out  there  because
    people "deserve the truth."

      In  his paper "The Secret Government,"  Cooper falsely  claimed  that
    "Stanton Friedman has told me and many others that years ago he  helped
    develop  a  nuclear  reactor the size of a  basketball,   to  power  an
    aircraft.  It was clean, turned out hydrogen, and worked like a dream".
    UFO called Friedman,  a  respected nuclear physicist and one of the top
    ufologists   in   the  United  States.   "Cooper's  claim  is   totally
    fraudulent," Friedman stated.

      "There  is  no truth to it at all."  Friedman expressed  bewilderment
    when asked why he thought Cooper would make that claim.

    THE "Orange"

      UFO  Magazine  was present in the fall of 1989  at a  UFO  conference
    hosted  by the UFO Data Research and Intelligence Center,  in  Modesto,
    California. Bill Cooper was one of the speakers,  and during the course
    of  his  lecture was asked by a member of the audience if he  knew  how
    many types of aliens were presently on earth.  Cooper answered,  "There
    are four types,  and four only. one group (is) very human looking; as a
    matter  of fact they are starring on television in "Alien Nation,"  the
    Orange. .

      According to the casting director of Alien Nation, Irene Kagan, these
    remarks  of Cooper's are totally false.  "I can assure you that all the
    'alien' actors on the show are human," she said. "I hired them."

      On a recent broadcast of the "Billy Goodman Happening"  on KVEG  from
    Las Vegas,  researcher Lars Hansson (see article, p. 17) debated Cooper
    on the air and pointed out some of the inconsistencies that Cooper  has
    espoused.  Hansson brought up the fact that at one time Cooper  himself
    gave Bob Lazar his "stamp of approval."  Cooper vehemently denied  ever
    having endorsed Lazar's authenticity,

      UFO  has  been following the Lazar story since it broke upon the  UFO
    scene. Cooper's claim that he never gave Lazar his support or claims of
    legitimacy is untrue.  On November 21,  1989,  Bob Lazar was a guest on
    the Billy Goodman Happening,  and during the audience call-in phase  of
    the  show,  Cooper phoned in and said the following over the air:  "I'd
    like to clear up a couple of misunderstandings here. Number 1, I  would
    really like to thank Bob Lazar for coming forward.  I have been talking
    to him for the last year,  along with John Lear,  we have met in groups
    and privately. The man (Lazar) is a wealth of information. I am tickled
    pink that he has finally decided to come forward and use his real name,
    because  it  helps  all  of us.  the reason he  has  gotten  into  this
    predicament is because he is a Patriot. He cares about this country and
    that is what made him do this.  .  ."  Goodman then broke in,   saying,
    "That's beautiful,  Bill, an unsolicited testimonial, basically, that's
    what it comes down to. "

      Then Cooper continued, "First, I'd like to say that I personally, and
    also  Tony  Pelham and also the Channel 8 news staff-George  Knapp  and
    several  other  people,  John Lear-we have all investigated this  man's
    background thoroughly because we did not want to be sucked into a  trap
    by the government.  And I can tell you that he is who he says he is. He
    has  worked  at Los Alamos.  He is a physicist,  he  is  a  theoretical
    physicist. He has worked at Area S4 in Groom Lake. We have verified all
    of this-not just me but several other people, and I have verified it by
    two  different  sources of mine who are in the government.  One  is  at
    Lawrence  Livermore  National Laboratories .  We  are  always   on  the
    lookout  for  somebody trying to trap us and something that we  ean  be
    discredited by. We have to do that [background research] to protect our
    own  credibility."  Cooper has subsequently attacked Lazar with  claims
    that  he  knew  all  along that Lazar  was  fraudulent.   In  his  CAJI
    Newsletter,   he now presents a completely different tone than  before,
    and  writes of "Lazar,  the so-called physicist who claims to have seen
    flying saucers.

      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 UFOlogist"  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 reschedule 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.


    WHISTLEBLOWERS PART ONE SIDEBAR.



      In  his  CAJI newsletter,  Cooper stated that "No one likes to  be  a
    fool,   but  most  ufologists are exactly 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 computer 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 explain 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 concerned 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 Jeff 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  attacked 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. And UFO MAGAZINE CO-
    Publisher says...

      There  you  have  it.   Don  Ecker's  article,   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
    established.   A   close reading of our whistleblowers series,   as  it
    progresses,   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 propaganda;  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 having 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  emphasized  that  this  syndrome  also
    testifies  to  our  collective frustration with  the  lies  and  secret
    machinations  of  some  powerful  persons  in  the  U.S.    government,
    cultivating  many people's willingness 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  Magazine-short-circuit such perniciousness 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


    IN DEFENSE OF THE FACTS

      When  I  began to look at Cooper's UFO-related information,  our  pur
    pose  was  to  examine his claims and see how valid  they  were.   This
    endeavor  started  with Cooper's CAJI newsletter,  and his claims  that
    people such as Bob Lazar, John Lear, Bill Moore and others were engaged
    in various illegal or unethical acts.

      But  back  in April and May of 1990,  Lazar,  for instance,   had  NO
    criminal charges even pending.  Apparently Lear was targeted by  Cooper
    only  because he appeared on the George Knapp special and exposed  some
    of Cooper's bogus information over the air.

      When  UFO  tried  to contact Cooper,  he immediately blew  up.   Sure
    enough,   before  too  long he launched a smear  campaign  against  the
    magazine  and  this  writer.  Cooper has even called the  magazine  and
    threatened  to sue unless we print a complete retraction of  Part  One,
    published in UFO,  Vol. 5, No. 4.  Never a word that parts of the story
    (in his opinion)  are wrong,  not a word that he wants his side told in
    these pages.  Instead,  in his latest newsletter,  Cooper has  resorted
    once  more to smearing,  innuendo and libel.  He even engages in an  in
    credibly sophomoric,  juvenile display by making scatological  parodies
    of my name, George Knapp's, and Vicki Cooper's.

      I,  for one,  wiIl not be intimidated.  UFO Magazine wilI continue to
    report  the truest facts available,  and what is nice  about  reporting
    facts is... they can be shown to everyone at any time.

      What  is  really sad about this story is the fact that I  agree  with
    much of what Cooper  says  when  he  is  speaking  about  an erosion of
    Constitutional  civil liberties.  There are bizarre things afoot in the
    land,   each day becomes more uncertain,  and the public is simply  not
    being  told  the  true  facts.  However,  one  thing  about  the  First
    Amendment,  that although it guarantees freedom of speech,  it does not
    allow the screaming of fire (with no fire) in a crowded theater. Cooper
    has been screaming fire on rainy days,  and the problem with that is...
    What  do you do when a real fire starts?  Just like the kid who  always
    cried wolf, no one came when the wolf finally showed up.

      What  it appears we are dealing with is demagoguery.  Demagoguery  in
    any  form,   with  people following blindly,   is  always  a  dangerous
    development.   Examine everyone's information,  do not accept  anything
    without checking it to the extent you are able, and then check it again
    from another angle, if possible.

      UFO  Magazine's  opinion is that this field is  fraught  with  enough
    dangers; tread carefully while walking down this path.

      During  this  investigation  UFO  Magazine has  found  that  much  of
    Cooper's material is entirely fabricated,  lifted from others'work,  or
    facts he's selected and twisted to support his own story. Several times
    Cooper  has  told those who have disagreed with him or  questioned  his
    information, "I will crucify you. . ." At what point will someone allow
    a demagogue to intimidate him or her into silence?  At what point  will
    truth be the final casualty in a war of words with liars?

      I  will  report the truth as long as we publish,   and  if  necessary
    suffer  the slings and arrows of outrageous slander.  At some point the
    public  will learn that each demagogue DOES have his 15  minutes in the
    sun, but then the public learns WHAT IS THE TRUTH.

    Don Ecker


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