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- April 4, 1989
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- Robert G. Todd
- 2528 Belmont Ave
- Ardmore. PA 19003-2617
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- Mr. Todd;
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- This is in response to your March 2 and 28 letters.
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- During the conversation with Mr. Klass in January 1988, I merely
- expressed opinions regarding your association with certain documents.
- I never stated I actually knew you retyped the documents you
- mentioned. Regarding the statement you sent forged documents to the
- government. That again was an opinion. You sent me a document
- that you yourself said was forged.
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- Regarding the Ellsworth AFB incident. I have told Peter Gersten
- and a number of other people the incident never happened. I never
- was involved in any investigations regarding UFOs at Ellsworth AFB.
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- I have never interfered with the processing of FOIA requested
- during my assignment with AFOSI. I never handled an FOIA requests.
- They were handled by the Commander, who forwarded them to HQ AFOSI
- for special processing.
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- I have never attempted to discredit you.
-
- I have won two legal actions against UFO researchers who made
- statements regarding my character. I am more that willing to pursue
- legal actions against you. In your March 2 and 28 letter, you made
- a number of statements that could be considered libel and slanderous.
-
- I have no intentions of sending you a notarized statement.
- I merely stated opinions to Mr. Klass during the January 1988
- conversation. The opinions I made during that telephone conversation
- are no different than the opinions you made to Peter Gersten and Mr.
- Greenwood in 1987, 1988 and early 1989. I know of several statement
- you made about me to those individuals and certain others. You must
- be more careful what you say.
-
- I have been exonerated by Government investigators regarding the
- Ellsworth AFB incident, the Kirtland AFB incident, the Falcon affair,
- the document to MUFON and the Linda Howe affair. I went through a lot
- of time, trouble, expense and pain clearing myself of those
- allegations. I will now concentrate my efforts on clearing my name
- within the research community.
-
- Regarding the book due out this fall. I was not the author of
- the book. A researcher in Seattle, WA did the research and a writer
- in New York wrote the book. I actually had very little to do with
- the book. In fact the manuscript was written before I knew anything
- about the book. The writer presented the manuscript to me for my
- comments. I must say there are a lot of truths about my career with
- AFOSI that was told, some against my wishes. However, the truths
- about the Kirtland AFB incident, the Ellsworth AFB incidents, the
- Linda Howe affair, and many other allegations made against me were
- answered in the book. Once you read the book, you will find out
- the real truths about those incident I mentioned earlier. My uncle
- contributed a great deal to the last two chapters of the book. He
- gives a detailed history of UFO investigations from 1953 unti 1969.
- The Seattle researcher did a lot of good work on the book. He found
- some, yet to be released, Government documents relating to the UFO
- questions. I can honestly say, I don't know how he got them. He
- also obtained some, never before released, Government documents
- through FOIA regarding UFOs. I must admit the book doesn't paint
- me as a saint, but it does tell the truth.
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- In closing, I don't know you personally. I don't make comments
- about a persons character that I don't know. I'm sure you are
- sincere in your research work. There is a lot of information out
- there regarding UFOs that needs to be sorted out. There are also
- a lot of unexplained questions that needs to be answered. If you
- wish to pursue the answers to the many UFO related questions, so
- be it. I truly wish you luck. It won't be easy.
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- signed: Richard Doty
-
- Richard Doty
- P.O. Box 973
- Grants, NM 87020
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