From usc!ginosko!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca!tolkien.WV.TEK.COM!keithr Mon Sep 11 14:31:40 PDT 198 US Government UFO cover-up? You betcha!! The following is my typescript of an information sheet issued by Stanton Friedman, one of the top ten UFO researchers in the US (and Canada). He has done extensive research on the MJ-12 Eisenhower presidential briefing document and the background of the people named in the document. He is also the principal researcher of the Roswell saucer crash along with Bill Moore. For those of you who want a science fiction/fantasy conspiracy that's true, try the saucer stuff. For those few of you inclined to do a little original research, just call up Friedman himself. But do yourself a favor first and get a little background. See the "Partial UFO Bibliography" at the end of this posting for a start on your UFO education. Start with the starred (**) books first. ****************************************************** Stanton T. Friedman NUCLEAR PHYSICIST - LECTURER 79 PEMBROKE CRESCENT FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK E3B 2V1 CANADA (506) 457-0232 The US Government Coverup of UFO Information Dec. 18, 1988, Stanton T. Friedman There is simply no way any rational person can deny that the US Government has been officially withholding data about UFOs for many years. The facts speak for themselves to anyone willing to listen. There are many trails leading to exactly the same conclusion. One, of many, deals with the role of the National Security Agency (NSA). About a decade ago a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy to the CIA elicited the response that the CIA had no information about UFOs. An appeal was denied, but a court action forced the CIA to do a document search. Eventually they released more than 900 pages of mildly interesting UFO information (nothing classified above SECRET) and containing internal references to many other unreleased UFO documents. Perhaps of greater importance than what was released, was a list of 57 unreleasable UFO documents in the CIA files, but originating with many other intelligence agencies. Of greatest interest were the 18 UFO documents originating with the NSA. An FOI request to the NSA for their 18 UFO documents was completely rejected on grounds of national security. An appeal was denied and a Federal Court action followed. The NSA kept citing the need to protect "sources and methods" data protected by law and CAUS kept responding that it was only interested in the UFO portions of the documents. The judge requested a search and was eventually notified by the NSA lawyer that the NSA had found 239 UFO documents (not just the 18 referenced by the CIA). However, 79 of these 239 Classified UFO documents originated with other agencies including 23 UFO documents from the CIA. However, the NSA refused to release 156 of their own 160 UFO documents and also refused to provide them to the federal judge [Gearhart Gesell] for his review to determine if national security was being correctly invoked. Instead the NSA provided him (not the CAUS attorney) a TOP SECRET +++++ 21 page affidavit *in camera* justifying withholding the NSA UFO documents. Judge Gesell (and a subsequent 3 judge Federal Court of Appeals Tribunal) was so impressed with the affidavit, that it was cited in his ruling rejecting the CAUS suit. A copy of the affidavit was eventually obtained under FOI, but is more than 75% expurgated. I filed an FOI request for the 23 CIA UFO documents noted by the NSA. After 35 months they released 9 (all abstracts of Eastern European newspaper articles about UFOs!!) but refused to release their own 14 UFO documents. I have appealed and will probably hear by 1991. Since the primary role of the NSA is supposed to be interception of foreign military communications (with an annual "black" budget of about $10 billion) by worldwide listening posts, it certainly seems clear that the intercepts (all predating 1980) are of military communication about probably significant foreign military UFO sightings, encounters, etc. For example, a former NSA employee described to me the monitoring of a daylight encounter between two Cuban Air Force MIG-21 interceptors and a UFO resulting in the destruction of the lead plane which intended to shoot down the intruding UFO. I have, of course, frequently challenged Philip J. Klass, who maintains there cannot be any government secrecy about UFOs, to provide copies of any of the 156 TOP SECRET +++ NSA UFO documents, or a much less expurgated version of the affidavit. In 5 years despite his constant claim of no coverup, he has provided none of the 156 documents or a cleaner affidavit. There are many other instances of US government agencies withholding UFO documents even though approximately 6000 pages have been received from a host of agencies. The USAF Office of Special Investigations (OSI) has even gone so far as to instruct its many units NOT to follow official regulations when they respond to a UFO FOI request from me. No rational person can claim there is no official US government coverup of UFO data. To suggest, as Klass has repeatedly, that because Nixon could not coverup Watergate (a political problem) the US government could not maintain secrecy about as vital a national security problem as the intrusion of US airspace by advanced alien spacecraft at least one of which has crashed and been recovered by the US government [the July 1947 Roswell, NM incident], is absurd. I am also intrigued by the fact that the FBI refuses to release to me my SECRET file or even tell me how many pages are in it or the time period covered, though Bill Moore [author of The Roswell Incident] was shown censored portions of 5 of his 61 pages! ****************************************************** Partial UFO Bibliography **Berlitz, Charles and William L. Moore. The Roswell Incident. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. 168pp. ISBN 0-448-21199-8. **Butler, Brenda, Dot Street, and Jenny Randles. Sky Crash: A Cosmic Conspiracy. Sudbury, Great Britain: Neville Spearman, 1984. 283pp. ISBN 85435-155-8. Condon, Edward U. and Daniel S. Gillmor (ed.). Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Conducted by the University of Colorado Under Contract to the United States Air Force). New York: Bantam Books, 1968. 965pp. Davidson, Leon. Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Blue Book Special Report No. 14 Including The C.I.A. and the Saucers. White Plains, New York: Privately printed by Leon Davidson, 1976. 84pp. Eberhart, George M. UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: a bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986. 1298pp. ISBN 0-8108-1919-8. Evans, Hilary and John Spencer (eds.). UFOs: 1947-1987 -- The 40- Year Search for an Explanation. London: Fortean Tomes, 1987. 384pp. ISBN 1-870021-02-9. **Fawcett, Lawrence and Barry J. Greenwood. Clear Intent: The Government Coverup of the UFO Experience. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984. 259pp. ISBN 0-13-136656-4. Fuller, John G. Aliens in the Skies: The Scientific Rebuttal to the Condon Committee Report. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1969. 219pp. **Good, Timothy. Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up. New York: William Morrow, 1988. 592pp. ISBN 0-688-07860-5. Hendry, Allan. The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating, Evaluating, and Reporting UFO Sightings. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (Dolphin), 1979. 297pp. ISBN 0-385-14348-6. **Jacobs, David Michael. The UFO Controversy in America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975. 362pp. ISBN 0- 253-19006-1. Keyhoe, Donald E. The Flying Saucer Conspiracy. New York: Henry Holt, 1955. 315pp. ISBN LC 55-7918. Lorenzen, Coral and Jim Lorenzen. Encounters with UFO Occupants. New York: Berkley, 1976. 424pp. ISBN 425-03093-8. Randles, Jenny and Peter Warrington. Science and the UFOs. Oxford, U.K.: Basil Blackwell, 1985. 215pp. ISBN 0-631-13563-4. **Randles, Jenny. The UFO Conspiracy: The First Forty Years. New York: Blanford Press, 1987. 224pp. ISBN 0-7137-1972-9. Sagan, Carl and Thorton Page, eds. UFO's -- A Scientific Debate. New York: Norton, 1972. 310pp. ISBN 0-393-00739-1. **Saunders, David R. and R. Roger Harkins. UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong. New York: New American Library (Signet), 1968. 256pp. ISBN LC 68-59202. Story, Ronald D. UFOs and the Limits of Science. New York: William Morrow, 1981. 290pp. ISBN 0-688-00144-0. Story, Ronald, ed. The Encyclopedia of UFOs. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (Dolphin Books), 1980. 440pp. ISBN 0-385-11681-0. Strentz, Herbert J. A Survey of Press Coverage of Unidentified Flying Objects, 1947 - 1966. Evanston, IL: Arcturus Book Service, 1982. 341pp. Stringfield, Leonard H. Situation Red: The UFO Siege!. New York: Fawcett-Crest Books, 1977. 254pp. ISBN 0-449-23654-4. Vallee, Jacques and Janine Vallee. Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma. New York: Ace Books, 1966. 256pp. ISBN . Vallee, Jacques. Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space -- A Scientific Appraisal. 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