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- ALTERNATIVE 003
- by
- Leslie Watkins
-
- with
- David Ambrose & Christopher Miles
-
- Section 1
-
- NO NEWSPAPER has yet secured the truth behind the operation known
- as ALTERNATIVE 3. Investigations by journalists have been blocked by
- governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain. American and Russia are
- ruthlessly obsessed with guarding their shared secret and this obsession, as
- we can now prove, has made them partners in murder.
-
- However, despite this intensive security, fragments of information have
- been made public. Often they are released inadvertently by experts who do
- not appreciate their sinister significance and these fragments, in isolation,
- mean little. But when jigsawed together they form a definite pattern, a
- pattern which appears to emphasize the enormity of this conspiracy of
- silence.
-
- On May 3, 1977, the Daily Mirror published this story:
-
- President Jimmy Carter has joined the ranks of UFO spotters. He sent
- in two written reports stating he had seen a flying saucer when he was the
- Governor of Georgia.
-
- The President has shrugged off the incident since then, perhaps fearing
- that electors might be wary of a flying saucer freak.
-
- But he was reported as saying after the "sighting"; "I don't laugh at
- people any more when they say they've seen UFOs because I've seen one
- myself."
-
- Carter described his UFO like this: "Luminous, not solid, at first bluish,
- then reddish. It seemed to move towards us from a distance, stopped, then
- moved partially away."
-
- Carter filed two reports on the sighting in 1973, one to the
- International UFO Bureau and the other to the National Investigations
- Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
-
- Heydon Hewes, who directs the International UFO Bureau from his
- home in Oklahoma City, is making speeches praising the President's
- "open-mindedness."
-
- But during his presidential campaign last year Carter was cautious. He
- admitted he had seen a light in the sky but declined to call it a UFO.
-
- He joked: "I think it was a light beckoning me to run in the California
- primary election."
-
- Why this change in Carter's attitude? Because, by then, he had been
- briefed on Alternative 3?
-
- A 1966 Gallup Poll showed that five million Americans including several
- highly experienced airline pilots claimed to have seen Flying Saucers.
- Fighter pilot Thomas Mantell has already died while chasing one over
- Kentucky his F.51 aircraft having disintegrated in the violent wash of his
- quarry's engines.
-
- The U.S. Air Force, reluctantly bowing to mounting pressure, asked Dr.
- Edward Uhler Condon, a professor of astrophysics, to head an investigation
- team at Colorado University.
-
- Condon's budget was $500,000. Shortly before his report appeared in
- 1968, this story appeared in the London Evening Standard:
-
- The Condon study is making headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. It
- is losing some of its outstanding members, under circumstances which are
- mysterious to say the least. Sinister rumors are circulating. At least four key
- people have vanished from the Condon team without offering a satisfactory
- reason for their departure.
-
- The complete story behind the strange events in Colorado is hard to
- decipher. But a clue, at last may be found in the recent statements of Dr.
- James McDonald, the senior physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric
- Physics at the University of Arizona and widely respected in his field. In a
- wary, but ominous, telephone conversation this week, Dr. McDonald told me
- that he is "most distressed." Condon's 1,485-page report denied the
- existence of Flying Saucers and a panel of the American National Academy of
- Sciences endorsed the conclusion that "further extensive study probably
- cannot be justified."
-
- But, curiously, Condon's joint principal investigator, Dr. David Saunders,
- had not contributed a word to that report. And on January 11, 1969, the
- Daily Telegraph quoted Dr. Saunders as saying of the report:
-
- "It is inconceivable that it can be anything but a cold stew. No matter
- how long it is, what it includes, how it is said, or what it recommends, it will
- lack the essential element of credibility."
-
- Already there were wide-spread suspicions that the Condon
- investigation had been part of an official coverup, that the government knew
- the truth but was determined to keep it from the public. We now know that
- those suspicions were accurate. And that the secrecy was all because of
- Alternative 3.
-
- Only a few months after Dr. Saunders made his "cold stew" statement a
- journalist with the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch embarrassed the National
- Aeronautics and Space Agency by photographing a strange craft looking
- exactly like a Flying Saucer at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico.
-
- At first no one at NASA would talk about this mysterious circular craft,
- 15 feet in diameter, which had been left in the "missile graveyard" a section
- of the range where most experimental vehicles were eventually dumped.
-
- But the Martin Marietta company of Denver, where it was built,
- acknowledged designing several models, some with ten and twelve engines.
- And a NASA official, faced with this information, said, "Actually the engineers
- used to call it 'The Flying Saucer."
-
- That confirmed a statement made by Dr. Garry Henderson, a leading
- space research scientist: "All our astronauts have seen these objects but have
- been ordered not to discuss their findings with anyone."
-
- Otto Binder was a member of the NASA space team. He has stated that
- NASA "killed" significant segments of conversation between Mission Control
- and Apollo 11, the spacecraft which took Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to
- the Moon and that those segments were deleted from the official record:
-
- "Certain sources with their own VHF receiving facilities that by passed
- NASA broadcast outlets claim there was a portion of Earth-Moon dialogue
- that was quickly cut off by the NASA monitoring staff."
-
- Binder added:
-
- "It was presumably when the two moon walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong,
- were making the round some distance from the LEM that Armstrong
- clutched Aldrin's arm excitedly and exclaimed 'What was it? What the hell
- was it? That's all I want to know.' "
-
- Then, according to Binder, there was this exchange:
-
- MISSION CONTROL: What's there? malfunction(garble).Mission
- Control calling Apollo 11.
-
- APOLLO 11: These babies were huge, sir. enormous, Oh, God you
- wouldn't believe it!
- I'm telling you there are other space-craft out there
- lined up on the far side of the crater edge.
- They're on the Moon watching us.
-
- NASA, understandably, has never confirmed Binder's story but Buzz
- Aldrin was soon complaining bitterly about the Agency having used him as a
- "traveling salesman."
-
- And two years after his Moon mission, following reported bouts of heavy
- drinking, he was admitted to hospital with "emotional depression."
-
- "Traveling salesman", that's an odd choice of words, isn't it? What, in
- Aldrin's view, were the NASA authorities trying to sell? And to whom?
- Could it be that they were using him, and others like him, to sell their
- official version of the truth to ordinary people right across the world?
-
- Was Aldrin's Moon walk one of those great spectaculars, presented with
- maximum publicity, to justify the billions being poured into space research?
-
- Was it part of the American-Russian cover for Alternative 3?
-
- All men who have travelled to the Moon have given indications of
- knowing about Alternative 3 and of the reasons which precipitated it.
-
- In May, 1972, James Irwin, officially the sixth man to walk on the
- Moon, resigned to become a Baptist missionary. And he said then, "The
- flight made me a deeper religious person and more keenly aware of the
- fragile nature of our planet."
-
- Edgar Mitchell, who landed on the Moon with the Apollo 14 mission in
- February, 1971, also resigned in May, 1972 to devote himself to
- parapsychology. Later, at the headquarters of his Institute for noetic
- Sciences near San Francisco, he described looking at this world from the
- Moon: "I went into a very deep pathos, a kind of anguish. That incredibly
- beautiful planet that was Earth, a place no bigger than my thumb was my
- home.. a blue and white jewel against a velvet black sky...was being killed
- off."
-
- And on March 23, 1974, he was quoted in the Daily Express as saying
- that society had only three ways in which to go and that the third was "the
- most viable but most difficult alternative."
-
- Another of the Apollo Moon walkers, Bob Grodin, was equally specific
- when interviewed by a Sceptre Television reporter on June 20, 1977;
-
- "You think they need all that crap down in Florida just to put two guys
- up there on a bicycle? The hell they do! You know why they need us?
- So they've got a P.R. story for all that hardware they've been firing into
- space.
- We're nothing, man! Nothing!"
-
- On July 11, 1977, the Los Angeles Times came near to the heart of
- the matter, nearer than any other newspaper, when it published a
- remarkable interview with Dr. Gerard O'Neill.
-
- Dr. O'Neill is a Princeton professor who served, during a 1976
- sabbatical, as Professor of Aerospace at the Massachusetts Institute of
- Technology and who gets nearly $500,000 each year in research grants from
- NASA. Here is a section from that article:
-
- The United Nations, he says, has conservatively estimated that the
- world's population, now more than 4 billion people, will grow to about 6.5
- billion by the year 2000. Today, he adds, about 30% of the world's
- population is in developed nations. But, because most of the projected
- population growth will occur in underdeveloped countries, that will drop to
- 22% by the end of the century. The world of 2000 will be poorer and
- hungrier than the world today, he says.
-
- Dr. O'Neill also explained the problems caused by the earth's 4,000 mile
- atmospheric layer, but presumably because the article was comparatively
- short one, he was not quoted on the additional threat posed by the notorious
- "greenhouse" syndrome.
-
- His solution? He called it Island 3. And he added: "There's no debate
- about the technology involved in doing it. That's been confirmed by NASA's
- top people."
-
- But Dr. O'Neill, a family man with three children who like to fly
- sailplanes in his spare time, did not realize that he was slightly off target.
- He was right, of course, about the technology.
-
- But he knew nothing of the political ramifications and he would have
- been astounded to learn that NASA was feeding his research to the Russians.
-
- Even eminent political specialists, as respected in their sphere as Dr.
- O'Neill is in his own, have been puzzled by an undercurrent they have
- detected in East-West relationships.
-
- Professor G. Gordon Broadbent, director of the independently financed
- Institute of Political Studies in London and author of a major study of
- U.S.-Soviet diplomacy since the 1950s, emphasized that fact on June 20,
- 1977, when he was interviewed on Sceptre Television:
-
- "On the broader issue of Soviet-U.S. relations, I must admit there is an
- element of mystery which troubles many people in my field."
-
- He added: "What we're suggesting is that, at the very highest levels of
- East-West diplomacy, there has been operating a factor of which we know
- nothing. Now it could just be and I stress the word 'could' that this
- unknown factor is some kind of massive but covert operation in space. But
- as for the reasons behind it we are not in the business of speculation."
-
- Washington's acute discomfort over O'Neill's revelations through the Los
- Angeles Times can be assessed by the urgency with which a "suppression"
- Bill was rushed to the Statute Book.
-
- On July 27, 1977, only sixteen days after publication of the O'Neill
- interview columnist Jeremy Campbell reported in the London Evening
- Standard that the Bill would become law that September. He wrote:
-
- It prohibits the publishing of an official report without permission,
- arguing that this obstructs the Government's control of its own information.
- That was precisely the charge brought against Daniel Ellsberg for giving the
- Pentagon papers to the New York Times.
-
- Most ominous of all, the Bill would make it a crime for any present or
- former civil servant to tell the Press of Government wrong doing or pass on
- any news based on information "submitted to the Government in private."
-
- Campbell pointed out that this final clause "has given serious pain to
- guardians of American Press freedom because it creates a brand new crime."
- Particularly as there was provision in the Bill for offending journalists to be
- sent to prison for up to six years.
-
- We subsequently discovered that a man called Harman Leonard Harman
- read that item in the newspaper and that later, in a certain television
- executives' dining room, he expressed regret that a similar Law had not been
- passed years earlier by the British government.
-
- He was eating treacle tart with custard at the time and he reflected
- wistfully that he could then have insisted on such a Law being obeyed. That,
- when it came to Alternative 3, would have saved him from a great deal of
- trouble.
-
- He had chosen treacle tart, not because he particularly liked it, but
- because it was 2p(ence) cheaper than the chocolate sponge. That was
- typical of Harman.
-
- He was one of the people, as you may have learned already through the
- Press, who tried to interfere with the publication of this book. We will later
- be presenting some of the letters received by us from him and his lawyers
- together with the replies from our legal advisers.
-
- We decided to print these letters in order to give you a thorough insight
- into our investigation for it is important to stress that we, like Professor
- Broadbent, are not in the "business of speculation." We are interested only in
- the facts.
-
- And it is intriguing to note the pattern of facts relating to astronauts
- who have been on Moon missions and who have therefore been exposed to
- some of the surprises presented by Alternative 3.
-
- A number, undermined by the strain of being party to such a
- horrendous secret, suffered nervous or mental collapses. A high percentage
- sought sanctuary in excessive drinking or in extramarital affairs which
- destroyed what had been secure and successful marriages.
-
- Yet these were men originally picked from many thousands precisely
- because of their stability. Their training and experience, intelligence and
- physical fitness all these, of course, were prime considerations in their
- selection. But the supremely important quality was their balanced
- temperament.
-
- It would need something stupendous, something almost unimaginable
- to most people, to flip such men into dramatic personality changes. That
- something, we have now established, was Alternative 3 and, perhaps more
- particularly, the night marish obscenities involved in the development and
- perfection of Alternative 3.
-
- We are not suggesting that the President of the United States has had
- personal knowledge of the terror and clinical cruelties which have been an
- integral part of the Operation, for that would make him directly responsible
- for murders and barbarous mutilations.
-
- We are convinced, in fact, that this is not the case. The President and
- the Russian leader, together with their immediate subordinates, have been
- concerned only with broad sweep of policy.
-
- They have acted in unison to ensure what they consider to be the best
- possible future for mankind. And the day to day details have been delegated
- to high level professionals.
-
- These professionals, we have now established, have been classifying
- people selected for the Alternative 3 operation into two categories: those
- who are picked as individuals and those who merely form part of a "batch
- consignment."
-
- There have been several "batch consignments" and it is the treatment
- meted out to most of these men and women which provides the greatest
- cause for outrage.
-
- No matter how desperate the circumstances may be$and we reluctantly
- recognize that they are extremely desperate$no humane society could
- tolerate what has been done to the innocent and the gullible.
-
- That view, fortunately, was taken by one man who was recruited into
- the Alternative 3 team three years ago. He was, at first, highly enthusiastic
- and completely dedicated to the Operation. However, he became revolted by
- some of the atrocities involved. He did not consider that, even in the
- prevailing circumstances, they could be justified.
-
- Three days after the transmission of that sensational television
- documentary, his conscience finally goaded him into action. He knew the
- appalling risk he was taking, for he was aware of what had happened to
- others who had betrayed the secrets of Alternative 3, but he made telephone
- contact with television reporter Colin Benson and offered to provide Benson
- with evidence of the most astounding nature.
-
- He was calling, he said, from abroad but he was prepared to travel to
- London. They met two days later. And he then explained to Benson that
- copies of most orders and memoranda, together with transcripts prepared
- from tapes of Policy Committee meetings, were filed in triplicate in
- Washington, Moscow and Geneva where Alternative 3 had its operational
- headquarters.
-
- The system had been instituted to ensure there was no
- misunderstanding between the principal partners. He occasionally had
- access to some of that material although it was often weeks or even months
- old before he saw it and he was willing to supply what he could to Benson.
- He wanted no money. He merely wanted to alert the public, to help stop the
- mass atrocities.
-
- Benson's immediate reaction, after he had assessed the value of this
- offer, was that Sceptre should mount a follow up programme, one which
- would expose the horrors of Alternative 3 in far greater depth.
-
- He argued bitterly with his superiors at Sceptre but they were adamant.
- The company was already in serious trouble with the government and there
- was some doubt about whether its licence would be renewed. They refused
- to consider the possibility of doing another programme. They had officially
- disclaimed the Alternative 3 documentary as a hoax and that was where the
- matter had to rest.
-
- Anyway, they pointed out, this character who'd come forward was
- probably a nut$ If you saw the documentary, you will probably realize that
- Benson is a stubborn man. His friends say he is pig obstinate. They also say
- he is a first class investigative journalist.
-
- He was angry about this attempt to suppress the truth and that is why
- he agreed to co-operate in the preparation of this book. That co-operation
- has been invaluable.
-
- Through Benson we met the telephone caller who we now refer to as
- Trojan. And that meeting resulted in our acquiring documents, which we
- will be presenting, including transcripts of tapes made at the most secret
- rendezvous in the world, thirty five fathoms beneath the ice cap of the
- Arctic.
-
- For obvious reasons, we cannot reveal the identity of Trojan. Nor can
- we give any hint about his function or status in the Operation.
-
- We are completely satisfied, however, that his credentials are authentic
- and that, in breaking his oath of silence, he is prompted by the most
- honourable of motives.
-
- He stands in relation to the Alternative 3 conspiracy in much the same
- position as the anonymous informant "Deep Throat" occupied in the
- Watergate affair. Most of the "batch consignments" have been taken from the
- area known as the Bermuda Triangle but numerous other locations have also
- been used.
-
- On October 6, 1975, the Daily Telegraph gave prominence to this
- story:
-
- The disappearance in bizarre circumstances in the past two weeks of
- 20 people from small coastal communities in Oregon was being intensively
- investigated at the weekend amid reports of an imaginative fraud scheme
- involving a "flying saucer" and hints of mass murder.
-
- Sheriff's officers at Newport, Oregon, said that the 20 individuals had
- vanished without trace after being told to give away all their possessions,
- including their children, so that they could be transported in a flying saucer
- "by UFO to a better life."
-
- "Deputies under Mr. Ron Sutton, chief criminal investigator in
- surrounding Lincoln County, have traced the story back to a meeting on
- September 14 in a resort hotel, the Bayshore Inn at Waldport, Oregon$
- Local police have received conflicting reports as to what occurred (at the
- meeting).
-
- But while it is clear that the speaker did not pretend to be from outer
- space, he told the audience how their souls could be "saved through a UFO.
-
- "The hall had been reserved for a fee of $50 by a man and a woman who
- gave false names. Mr. Sutton said witnesses had described them as "fortyish,
- well groomed, straight types."
-
- The Telegraph said that "selected people would be prepared at a special
- camp in Colorado for life on another planet" and quoted Investigator Sutton
- as adding:
-
- "They were told they would have to give away everything, even their
- children. I'm checking a report of one family who supposedly gave away
- 150-acre farm and three children."
-
- "We don't know if it's fraud or whether these people might be killed.
- There are all sorts of rumours, including some about human sacrifice and
- that this is sponsored by the (Charles) Manson family."
-
- "Most of the missing 20 were described as being "hippie types"
- although there were some older people among them."
-
- People of this calibre, we have now discovered, have been what is
- known as "scientifically adjusted" to fit them for a new role as a slave
- species.
-
- There have been equally strange reports of animals, particularly farm
- animals, disappearing in large numbers. And occasionally it appears that
- aspects of the Alternative 3 operation have been bungled, that attempts to
- lift "batch consignments" of humans or of animals have failed.
-
- On July 15, 1977, the Daily Mail under a "Flying Saucer" headline
- carried this story:
-
- Men in face masks, using metal detectors and a geiger counter,
- yesterday scoured a remote Dartmoor valley in a bid to solve a macabre
- mystery. Their search centred on marshy grassland where 15 wild ponies
- were found dead, their bodies mangled and torn.
-
- All appeared to have died at about the same time, and many of the bones
- have been inexplicably shattered. To add to the riddle, their bodies
- decomposed to virtual skeletons within only 48 hours.
-
- Animal experts confess they are baffled by the deaths at Cherry Brook
- Valley near Postbridge.
-
- Yesterday's search was carried out by members of the Devon
- Unidentified Flying Objects centre at Torquay who are trying to prove a link
- with outer space.
-
- They believe that flying saucers may have flown low over the area and
- created a vortex which hurled the ponies to their death. Mr. John Wyse,
- head of the four-man team, said:
-
- "If a spacecraft has been in the vicinity, there may still be detectable
- evidence. We wanted to see if there was any sign that the ponies had been
- shot but we have found nothing. This incident bears an uncanny
- resemblance to similar events reported in America."
-
- The Mail report concluded with a statement from an official
- representing The Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society and the Animal
- Defence Society:
-
- "Whatever happened was violent. We are keeping an open mind. I am
- fascinated by the UFO theory. There is no reason to reject that possibility
- since there is no other rational explanation."
-
- These, then, were typical of the threads, which inspired the original
- television investigation. It needed one person, however, to show how they
- could be embroidered into a clear picture.
-
- Without the specialist guidance of that person the Sceptre television
- documentary could never have been produced, and Trojan would never have
- contacted Colin Benson.
-
- And it would have been years, possibly seven years or even longer,
- before ordinary people started to suspect the devastating truth about this
- planet on which we live. That person, of course, is the old man$
-
-
-
- Section 2
-
-
-
- THEY Realize now that they should have killed the old man.
-
- That would have been the logical course to protect the secrecy of
- Alternative 3. It is curious, really, that they did not agree to his death on
- that Thursday in February for, as we have stated, they do use murder.
-
- Of course, it is not called murder, not when it is done jointly by the
- governments of America and Russia. It is an Act of Expediency.
-
- Many Acts of Expediency are believed to have been ordered by the
- sixteen men, official representatives of the pentagon and the Kremlin, who
- comprise the Policy Committee.
-
- Grotesque and apparently inexplicable slayings in various parts of the
- world in Germany and Japan, Britain and Australia are alleged to have been
- sanctioned by them.
-
- We have not been able to substantiate these suspicions and allegations
- so we merely record that an unknown number of people, including
- distinguished radio astronomer Sir William Ballantine, have been executed
- because of this astonishing agreement between the super-powers.
-
- Prominent politicians, including two in Britain, were among those who
- tried to prevent the publication of this book. They insisted that it is not
- necessary for you, and others like you, to be told the unpalatable facts.
-
- They argue that the events of the future are now inevitable, that there is
- nothing to be gained by prematurely unleashing fear.
-
- We concede that they are sincere in their views but we maintain that
- you ought to know. You have a right to know.
-
- Attemps were also made to neuter the television programme which first
- focused public attention on Alternative 3. Those attemps were partially
- successful. And, of course, after the programme was transmitted, when
- there was that spontaneous explosion of anxiety, Septre Television was
- forced to issue a formal denial.
-
- It had all been a hoax. That's what they were told to say. That's what
- they did say.
-
- Most people were then only too glad to be reassured. They wanted to
- be convinced that the programme had been devised as a joke, that it was
- merely an elaborate piece of escapist entertainment. It was more
- comfortable that way.
-
- In fact, the television researchers did uncover far more disturbing
- material than they were allowed to transmit. The censored information is
- now in our possession. And, as we have indicated, there was a great deal
- that Benson and the rest of the television team did not discover, not until
- after their programme had been screened.
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- Copies of Alternative 3 are rare. There is a source in ENGLAND which
- we do not currently know, however, you may purchase an imported copy for
- about $11.00 from Metaphysical Book Store, 9511 E. Colfax, Aurora, CO
- 80010 (303) 341-7562. Please mention that you got the address from VANGARD
- SCIENCES or the KeelyNet Bulletin Board System. Thanks.
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