Extract from Banner for 2009 European Exopolitics Summit, Barcelona, Spain
A new breed of UFOlogist has emerged as critics of the burgeoning exopolitics movement. It’s no surprise that in the lead up and success of the world’s first Exopolitics Summit in Barcelona, Spain, that UFOlogists would increasingly perceive exopolitics as an existential threat. The existential threat, according to UFOlogists acting as gatekeepers for “legitimate UFO research,” is that exopoliticians mix reliable with unreliable UFO sources in their analyses. Indeed, this mixing of reliable and unreliable sources leads to a special form of hysteria among gatekeepers of legitimate UFO research. Existential hysteria leads to UFOlogical gatekeepers claiming in all seriousness that exopolitics has become the main obstacle to genuine UFO disclosure. The reality is that after six decades of earnest activity, UFOlogy has failed to take humanity to the promised land of genuine government disclosure of UFOs, and a new set of pioneers have stepped in to light the way. These exopolitical pioneers believe that a nuanced consideration of ALL evidentiary sources and related political processes will expose the truth behind the extraterrestrial hypothesis – that some UFOs are interplanetary in origin.
UFOlogy is broadly defined as a field dominated by those believing in the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon. Using methods and techniques borrowed from disciplines such as physics, meteorology, astronomy and biology, UFOlogists believe that they can amass sufficient evidence to convince hard core skeptics that UFOs are real, and have genuine national security implications. In such an endeavor, any evidence deemed to be unreliable, tainted, not consistent with facts, is jettisoned in order not to corrupt the raw pool of reliable data needed to convince UFO skeptics. The end result of this rigid filtering process is a pool of data that UFOs are indeed real and have important national security implications. For example, UFOs outperform modern aircraft, have crashed and been retrieved in mysterious circumstances, and are often sighted near nuclear installations.
It’s important to however point out that the decades long strategy of convincing UFO skeptics through hard evidence has been an abject failure. After six decades of amassing enough hard evidence to fill a small library, genuine UFO disclosure has still not happened. Governments continue to insist that UFOs are merely an unexplained phenomenon without any national security implications. Indeed, former employees of government agencies go as far as claiming that UFOs are related to mistaken identification of covert military programs such as the U-2 and Oxcart spy planes.
The failure of scientific Ufology is simple to explain according to pioneers in the exopolitics movement. The UFO phenomenon is both a scientific and political problem. It is the political aspect that requires flexible social scientific techniques in order to wade through a vast array of evidence that have enormous political, sociological, economic and religious consequences. Most importantly, exopoliticians point to a psychological warfare program that began in the early 1950s to debunk, discredit and misinform the public about the truth behind the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Declassified documents reveal that psychological warfare was a key feature of a Majestic Project initiated during the height of the flying saucer phenomenon in the early 1950s. Three 1952 Top Secret memos from the Joint Chiefs of Staff titled: "Joint Logistic Plan for MAJESTIC" were declassified in 1976 and state:
The following plans in support of MAJESTIC are now under preparation: A psychological warfare plan, an unconventional warfare plan, cover and deception plans, a civil affairs/military government plan, a command plan, a logistic plan, transportation guidance, to be included in the logistic plan, a map and chart plan and a communications plan.
The significance of this set of memos is that it shows that in 1952 a project called MAJESTIC was underway and this involved significant support across a wide spectrum of areas that would be expected for something involving UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. The psychological warfare program led to many genuine witnesses of UFOs and their alleged occupants being discredited, harassed or intimidated into silence. A key part of the discrediting of witnesses was to taint their reliability by removing supporting evidence, silencing independent observers, creating false documents, fabricating claims, character assassination and many other measures found in any psychological warfare manual. These actions against UFO witnesses had many similarities to the FBI’s COINTLELPRO. The 1975 Church Committee described COINTELPRO as follows:
COINTELPRO is the FBI acronym for a series of covert action programs directed against domestic groups. In these programs, the Bureau went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret action defined to "disrupt" and "neutralize" target groups and individuals. The techniques were adopted wholesale from wartime counterintelligence.
In the case of witnesses of UFOs and/or their alleged interplanetary occupants, I have referred to this elsewhere as Galactic COINTELPRO.
Consequently, the existence of a psychological warfare program to discredit UFO witnesses and taint evidence requires moving beyond a simple dichotomy between reliable and unreliable sources. Many sources deemed “unreliable” by modern UFO gatekeepers may in fact have been subjected to psychological warfare techniques intended to discredit their testimonies or supporting evidence such as photos, films, etc. Alternatively, some witnesses may be actively participating in a psychological warfare technique based on “hiding the truth in plain sight”. This involves genuine information being disseminated by discredited sources in an effort to get the general public to dismiss important information concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life and technology. Finally, some sources deemed to be “credible”, may in fact be part of a psychological warfare program to steer the public into unproductive lines of inquiry into the UFO phenomenon.
A psychological warfare program based on discrediting genuine witnesses and hiding the truth in plain sight can only succeed if enough skeptics/UFO gatekeepers join in a loud chorus insisting on strict scientific filtering mechanisms for witnesses and sources. Indeed, an existential hysteria on the part of the UFO gatekeepers performs a vital function for the success of the modern psychological warfare program to discredit and dismiss a great number of sources with genuine information on the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Special mention should be made of modern UFO gatekeepers who are most vocal in perpetuating the existential hysteria over the exopolitics discipline. Special note should go to Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes, who excels in hysterical overreaction when it comes to the use of sources he declares unreliable. David Biedny and Gene Steinberg, hosts of Paracast Radio have consistently shown an astounding lack of intellectual honesty in declaring which sources or witnesses they find reliable or not. For example, they had image expert Jim Dilettoso appear as guest who promptly revealed that 40 of the earliest Billy Meier photos were real, and that models were then created for hoaxed photos for comparative purposes. Totally ignoring this very important information, Biedny and Steinberg go on to declare that the Billy Meier photos are fraudulent based on their analysis of later hoaxed photos. Finally, small mention should also be made of retired Air Force Captain Robert Salas who in a moment of poor judgment deigned to join the existential hysteria created by Hastings, Biedny and Steinberg, and penned an article attacking exopolitics pioneers who had the temerity to support his work while also supporting those he deems unreliable.
In conclusion, getting to the truth of the UFO issue and the extraterrestrial hypothesis is filled with many difficulties and challenges which in no small part is due to a five decades long psychological warfare program. Beware the artificial dichotomies created by the new breed of UFOlogical gatekeepers who deign to declare from on high which sources are reliable and unreliable based on framing the UFO issue as a strict scientific problem. The truth of the extraterrestrial hypothesis will be found by a more nuanced approach that rightfully considers its political and national security aspects.
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Do you know where I can get hold of Jim Dilettoso? That SOB still has some infrared slides of a UFO that I sent him for analysis in 1996!
He said the object on them was "unlike anything else in my database of 10,000+ objects." I've asked him for them repeatedly, but he won't even reply. I'd like to strangle him – after I get my slides back! I think he's both a crank AND a crook, frankly.
Billy Meier photographs real? Any credibility you might have had, which is admittedly very little to begin with, has flat out left the building. You remember John Keel dubbing Saucer Smear as the boil on the ass of Ufology? You can proudly take that mantle now. You have made what could be a serious study into a laughingstock. One could almost say the devil made you do it. But have faith. Your alien space brother friends are in a spaceship just the other side of the Hale-Bopp comet. Why not drink the Kool-aid now and put yourself out of your (and our) misery?
UFOlogy to me is all about and remains -just a "phenomenon", a fantasy like projection or entertainment as we are trained to think by association. Exopolitics is a word in action -it sounds like a discussion & everything to do with communicating relations with ETs or an already functioning governing process. Exopolitics grabbed my attention from the start -UFOlogy can stay in the barely entertaining unsolved mysteries section.
to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see
forums.signonsandiego.com/showthread.php?t=59139
to view a partial list of FBI agents arrested for pedophilia see
dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3574
Dr. Salla is right. He writes this:
"any evidence deemed to be unreliable, tainted, not consistent with facts, is jettisoned in order not to corrupt the raw pool of reliable data needed to convince UFO skeptics."
But Salla calls this attitude "Hysteria".
Consequently, we should recornize Exopolitics, with its enormous mass of disinformation, lies, unreliable sources, imagination, historical fiction and pseudo-science, the right approach.
For Dr. Salla, rational, scientific, analytical Ufology is hysteria, and we must legitimate the absurdities and lies of the self-proclaimed exopoliticians.
This proclamation describes perfectly the myth of Exopolitics.
Every day I search google news for "UFO" and "Extraterrestrials", hoping to find some interesting information. Perhaps a UFO sighting, or a legitimate analasys of the phenomenon. Instead, I'm greeted with conspiracy theories, self-assured reports of new-age claims, and more crap mainly coming from Examiner, Allnewsweb, and UFODigest. Honestly, some of the crap I hear you people go on about is ridiculous, and it's irritating that I have to sift through it to find reports of decent UFO sightings that don't go on about how "this tiny light is from a magic civilization living in the Triangulum Galaxy who will globally enlighten us in 2012". It's people who report that crap that make UFOlogy look bad.
Well, I must say, I'm honored to be lumped into a group with credible, thoughtful and honest folks like Robert Hastings and Capt. Robert Salas, two of the most decent people in any way involved in the UFO topic. Salla belongs to another group, one consisting of folks such as Alfred Webre, Paola Harris, Jeff Peckman and all the other fringe clowns who are weighing down the field with their delusional fantasies and doe-eyed belief systems. A logical and rational approach is the only sane alternative in trying to unravel these mysteries, and it's most fascinating to me that Salla is coming after folks like Hastings and Salas, which in my mind, tends to confirm some of the accusations I've seen that Salla is actually part of a disinformation campaign against some of the more logical - and credible - proponents of the overall idea of UFO research.
And the fact that Salla apparently believes that there's some sort reason to believe in the Meier hoax is quite revealing in itself.
dB
I like Biedny's show and can appreciate his take on UFOLOGY, but it turns me off when makes it so person and comes off as such an a##hole.
It's very significant that Biedny's comment contains no substantive response to the issues raised in the article. He throws in a few ad hominem attacks, "fringe clowns" and a disinfo campaign accusation. When people avoid substance and go for the person, that's ALWAYs evidence of a lack of intellectual integrity. Again and again in the UFO field people get personal when they don't possess any substance response to the methodological flaws in their approach.
The problem I have with using our "rational science" to study and investigate anomalous flying objects is that most of what they teach us about how nature works, on micro scales, is seriously flawed. No doubt the ETs are laughing at you when when you come up with that "rational science" stuff! I recommend you stop your bickering and stop investigating UFOs with our "rational science" and get copies of Paul LaViolette's Subquantum Kinetics and Peter Woit's Not Even Wrong.
Let's see. Steven Greer claims to have held an alien baby in his arms. Henry Deacon claims to have walked on Mars. Dan Burisch talked with his pal JRod. Exopolitics sells correspondence courses on being an inter-galactic ambassador, and you have the gall to question the intellectual honesty of Steinberg and Biedny?
You, and your so-called movement, are delusional. Can't you hear the laughter? Don't you know no one takes you seriously? You are a joke, Salla. That Hawaiian sun has fried your brain.
(please, read my previous comment below)
The fictional world of exopolitics is pop culture marketing, in other words, money, and money doesn't care about truth.
But perhaps there is more. The Exopoliticians'promotion of the worst absurdities, works against the investigation of the UFO Phenomenon. In fact, EXOS are the best friends of the cover-up and the worst friends of any scientific investigation.
These attacks can be seen as a final, infantile retort to the fact people are uncomfortable with the UFO issue shifting into a more useful sphere of examination. 1423 attendees at the Euro Summit triples anything seen before & should be welcomed by all.
David Biedny adds nothing to the wider exploration of the issues at hand but instead appears to enjoy a rather perverse ego gratification each time his show is discussed in the context of having been some sort of Neanderthal ignoramus towards a guest.
This approach also leaks into his pseudo rationalist analysis of this area as exemplified by the fact he really thinks he knows better on something like the B.E.A.M. case from behind his PC monitor than numerous researchers who've been physically involved in case research for a couple of decades... and that's one example of many.
Mr Black - still waiting for your email to agree to a recorded discussion of 'the merits of exopolitics as an evolutionary catalyst.' @your convenience
See moneycontrol dot com's bio on Salla:
Michael Emin Salla (September 25, 1958) is an international politics scholar who in 2001 became interested in the study of exopolitics and subsequently embarked on a personal effort to disseminate his exopolitical beliefs and hypotheses via the mediums of the internet, UFO and New conferences, and radio appearances. Salla's most recent academic position was in Washington at American University, Center for Global Peace. The Center did not sanction his ufological research, and emphasizes that it is personal.
Controversy eventually led to Salla's dismissal from the university. His unconventional views have made his work the subject of considerable controversy and criticism within both the ufological and mainstream academic communities. Much of the testimony he uses to support his position is controversial due to a lack of empirical evidence to substantiate many of the claims.
While many of Salla's sources are considered to be credible by
THE REST OF MY MESSAGE:
While many of Salla's sources are considered to be credible by adherents to the UFO Disclosure movement who cite a variety of supporting documents and credentials, critics argue these sources have been discredited for a variety of reasons; among these the dissemination of patent falsehoods in the content of claims made, and the misrepresentation of credentials.
RH: The last paragraph in the article above is the key one, folks. If you wish to blindly follow a well-meaning but absurdly naive Pied Piper who relies on fraudulent "documents" and lying "witnesses" then go for it. Suckers!
Oh brother, this guy has got to be in it for money and/or notoriety. I just can't imagine that he could honestly believe half of the nonsense he babbles on about.
At the conclusion of his last article, Dr. Salla wrote:
"...truth of the extraterrestrial hypothesis will be found by a more nuanced approach that rightfully considers its political and national security aspects."
Former USAF Captain Robert Salas' response to the article is now posted at UFO Chronicles.
Salas concluded by saying,
"If you are talking about human politics surrounding the phenomenon, then you are dealing with assumptions and speculations. Is that what you mean by a nuanced approach to the truth of ETH? Walk into any bar in the world and you will hear that kind of ‘nuanced approach’ to the truth."
I will conclude this post by noting that Mr. Salas' testimony regarding the UFO-Nukes Connection may be found at my website, ufohastings dot com, together with the testimony of dozens of other bona fide witnesses--former or retired USAF personnel who report UFO activity at our ICBM sites.
I am simply amazed that the author of this absurd piece actually had the nerve to even hint that the Meier photographs might be genuine. Anyone who entertains the notion that Meier is anything but the hoaxster he definitely is must possess absolutely no objectivity at all. If you believe that guy then there is nothing you won't believe.
The new Research paradigm, as espoused by Dr. Salla:
In conversation with The Washington Post, Salla pointed to evidence widely available on the Internet as a source for his research on extraterrestrial visitation: "There's a lot of stuff on the Internet, and I just went around and pieced it together."
(Source: Carlson, Peter. "Ike and the Alien Ambassadors". The Washington Post. February 19, 2004.)
Wonderful scholarship, Dr. Salla. You really are a pioneer! Humans of the future will owe you a debt of gratitude for pointing the way!
[Begin Part 3]
What you refer to as “hysteria” was in fact the outrage expressed by many for your last article via the Examiner “endorsing known criminal, “Bill Knell.” Not only did you lend credence to his lies about Walter Cronkite, without doing any research or investigation, you also inadvertently aided him in his criminal endeavors by sending traffic to his web-site. This behavior of course was/is excusable initially, as you obviously weren’t aware of Knell and his nefarious ways; however, after being enlightened about him by myself and others, and to continue to sanction Knell’s lies as well as linking to his site, is akin to aiding and abetting in my view. As I told you privately, regardless of one’s view on exopolitics, this behavior of yours has done irreparable harm to your character, and by default—your cause, i.e., exopolitics.
Finally, inserting the addendum about Knell, (in your previous article which precipitated Salas’ piece and yours) being an “intelligence opera
[ end of part 3 that was cut off]
Finally, inserting the addendum about Knell, (in your previous article which precipitated Salas’ piece and yours) being an “intelligence operative” (absolute twaddle concluded by research you did overnight) only adds salt to the wound and simply strengthens the censure against you and exopolitics.
Frank Warren
[Begin Part 2]
To your credit, you did “correctly” name one of the grievances against you and exopolitics, i.e., “exopoliticians mix reliable with unreliable UFO sources in their analyses.” This particular article appears to be your admission to this fact, and if you don’t see the fallibility with this detail, then that merely compounds the issue.
Also in your article, you erroneously connect “Emergency War Plan” documents to Ufology—there is not one shred of evidence that bridges the documents to the phenomenon. This is inherent to poor research, which brings us to the “original” starting point.
Frank Warren
[End Part 2 See Part 3]
Michael,
[3 Parts]
Oh my! Where to start . . . let’s begin by “correcting” your statement about “a new breed of Ufologist” emerging; the Ufologists whom you cite towards the end of your piece, with the exception of “David Biedny” have been in the field for decades! Trying to “paint them” as “new or emerging” is erroneous and deceptive, to be polite.
Moreover, you also gave the a fore mentioned gentlemen the title of “The Gatekeepers of Ufology,” again attempting to conjure some notion of a Machiavellian, diabolical control over Ufology by competent, intelligent researchers and or witnesses—that quite frankly is utter nonsense!
Additionally, as part of your “stage,” you employ the noun” hysteria,” vis–à–vis the criticism aimed at you and exopolitics, while at the same time dishing out your own brand of condemnation . . . by your own definition, does this mean you’re hysterical?!
Frank Warren
[End Part 1 See Part 2]
THE REST OF MY LAST MESSAGE:
The Doktor: "I'm worried. My high-level, inside sources on the Internet are saying that the Reptilians are making a power-play to unseat the Nordic aliens as our guardians. I fear that we Earthlings are in for more trouble. I sure miss the old, peaceful Space Brothers era of the 1950s."
The Missus: "Not to worry. My humpback whale sources say that all will be well if we just band together and hold hands, uh, flippers, and think positive thoughts."
(Oops, I think I'm being hysterical again.)
When I try to post here, a prompt says I have 1000 characters to work with. But most of my messeages are cut off in mid-stream. This is unfortunate. Punch lines are always funnier at the END of the joke.
The Webster definition of hysteria is "behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess." Everyone take a close look at the posts of Hastings, Warren, Biedny and co. which all reflect an existential form of hysteria over the challenges posed by the exopolitics movement. Hastings launches into a crude character assassination, attacks my wife in the process, etc. Warren wants us all to believe that somehow I'm promoting criminal activities by citing even with appropriate caveats, unreliable sources, etc. These kinds of hysterical emotional responses do not engage with my key criticism raised in the above paper, i.e., a strict scientific filtering process is insufficient for dealing with the UFO issue due to the psychological warfare secretly conducted upon the public. Mr Warren says that the CJS documents I cite have nothing to do with the ET question. Really? Where's the evidence for a project Majestic in 1952 that had purely military and non-UFO/ET purposes?
I don't know of anyone who looks into the topic of UFOs that disagrees with the basic notion that some group within the U.S. military knows more about the UFO phenomenon than the average citizen, and as an actual experiencer (someone who has seen multiple UFOs, often with other witnesses), I'm fully aware of the problems of our current scientific knowledge level and methodologies with respect to this topic.
All that said, to somehow claim that science and logic are not useful in the process of researching and comprehending the UFO enigma, is either deeply ignorant or something far worse. The fact that Salla is attacking some of the more credible people in the field - Hastings and Salas - is really fascinating, and I suspect, shows us a clue of Salla's actual agenda, which is all about further muddying the waters, creating confusion and eroding whatever little cred exists in the rational discussion of the UFO phenomenon.
dB
As far as "attacking" you and your wife, Salla, I suspect that were we to dig deeper, we'd come up with some interesting information about how you're both able to manage living in Hawaii with little visible means of income or financial resources. I would guess you make very little $$$ from being involved with this field, and unless you or your wife are trust fund babies or independently wealthy, I'd be curious as to how you're able to pay your bills.
The more I look into your background, the more I look at what you've written and how you're so quick to peg folks like Knell as "disinfo agents", the more I'm beginning to suspect that you're projecting something about your own reality. Some of the specific wording of this latest piece of yours would suggest that you're doing something a bit more heinous than what meets the eyes.
Something smells about you, Salla. Perhaps I'll dig deeper and find out. Your background is as murky as Bassett's. Interesting.
VERY interesting.
dB
"a strict scientific filtering process is insufficient for dealing with the UFO issue due to the psychological warfare secretly conducted upon the public."
So your response to this alleged disinformation is to disseminate all of it as genuine to as wide an audience as possible? Where is the sense in that and what does it accomplish aside from further muddying the waters and subjecting the issue to ridicule from the media, science, and academia?
Interesting that the emphasis shifts to life style, monetary issues and personality; and substantive issues and methods are totally ignored or misrepresented. For example, no where do I say that "science and logic are not useful" The emphasis has always been on the UFO phenomenon being BOTH a scientific and political problem. Those like Hastings, et al, are typically self-taught with no scientific credentials, but insist on applying a strict scientific verification method to a problem that has deep political/national security aspects. For example, it's very sad how credible witnesses such as Lt Col. Phil Corso are dismissed for lack of verification of all his claims. The most significant information typically comes from those where similar verification problems arise, not because they are frauds, but because of political/national security factors.
"no where do I say that "science and logic are not useful""
Nonsense, in your previous remark you said that no filtering process should be bothered with because the subject has become the target of psychological warfare. If ever there is a time to employ a strict filter it is when an issue is saturated with disinformation otherwise you run the risk of passing on as genuine that very disinformation.
"it's very sad how credible witnesses such as Lt Col. Phil Corso are dismissed for lack of verification of all his claims."
My goodness, apparently there is no boundaries to your insanity. The egomaniac, Corso, also claimed that he single-handedly saved Italy!
"psychological warfare secretly conducted upon the public"...
You mean the activities that YOU have been involved with in recent years?
Salla, ever seen a UFO? I'm just wondering why you're so interested and immersed in this topic.
dB
Salla said, "Hastings launches into a crude character assassination, attacks my wife in the process, etc."
RH: Every time you write something new, you assassinate your own character, although you seem oblivious to that fact. I merely shine a light on your nonsense in a pointed and useful way. Given that you continue to unwittingly undermine the UFO disclosure process by your very actions, you beg for censure. Differing opinions are one thing; your opinions, which are based on the utterances of frauds like Bill Knell and fraudulent sources, such as the MJ-12 documents, cross the line. You are a global polluter, IMHO, and I'll bet the whales are as distressed as I. Maybe someone should ask them.
Not a personal attack from a "deeply ignorant" one, but I really don't know how "fully aware" you actually are. Think of my "reading assignment" as a call for a deeper understanding of a concept that most people are clueless about, i.e. the differences between what science feeds us about nature and a more realistic understanding of what elementary particles are. (All) There are two reasons why this is vitally important: 1) The correct understanding of nature is what enables ETs to get here - translation - the military industrial complex has no intentions of sharing how they and ETs get around. 2) They would rather weaponize this ultra advanced understanding of nature - which, to our everlasting sorrow, we may well have all witnessed on 9/11. I think we will not get pass the "UFO enigma" until we get the correct understanding of nature right - and, of course - humans "grow up". Trust me, this is the last thing our controllers want! So, continue with your personal attacks if you w
(Sorry, got cut off.)
Trust me, this is the last thing our controllers want! So, continue with your personal attacks if you will, but the ETs may well think it pathetic.
Dear Dr. Salla,
Thank you for putting those very important and nuanced sentences in bold. If you had not done so, silly idiots like me and other readers of your breaking news would miss the subtle word placements and the special ways that you put things. It is extra-ordinarily helpful. Any day now, I expect to see journalists bold-facing sentences, perhaps even adding an italicized word here and there, in the pages of the New York Times and the Seattle Post and other fine publications like the Examiner.
Most Sincerely,
Chuck Finn
You would think that any interested person on the topic of ETs & UFO would join efforts in any political movement if it has more pull for disclosure & open doors for ET relations rather than fighting & finger pointing -just bring the evidence & witnesses to the table everything else is speculation and a waste of time getting things done. People need to stop whining, focus on the goal and stay away from using the words phenomenon, mysterious & UFOlogy etc since they are myth related and if you want disclosure you need to focus on reality.
[Part 8]
Finally, my involvement in this dialogue, both here and at the site of your previous article, as well as private e-mail was to “warn a colleague” about the lies of the criminal he was endorsing, and to prevent any more harm done to citizens via Knell from simply removing the article, which is what I naturally expected to happen after you were informed of the details.
Ironically, the others, you’ve cited, Hastings, Salas, Biedny and Steinberg, who have broadened their criticism of you and exopolitics (above and beyond the Knell issue) you have provided ample evidence for their thesis in the span of these last two articles . . . and that in one sense is “hysterical!”
Respectfully,
Frank Warren
[Part 7]
Accordingly, to further exhibit a pattern, you then attempt to associate “authentic previously classified documents” to the UFO phenomenon simply because the word “Majestic” was found in them, which was a code-name then for the project in question; to date there is not one shred of evidence supporting any collusion
between the docs and Ufology! If you have any—please share!
[Part 6]
In the space of two articles you initially herald the narrative of a known criminal and conman, without doing any investigation or due diligence, while simultaneously sending lambs to the slaughter by linking to the criminal’s site; in giving an inkling of credence to Knell’s nonsense re Cronkite, you assisted in sullying this great man’s name. To add salt to the wound, after having dozens of people “enlighten” you to Knell’s nefarious character, overnight you come back to state, “ . . . I have to conclude that Knell is part of an intelligence program . . ..” This is utter poppycock, and demonstrates your poor research skills and gives one pause to your aptitude, or more accurately—inaptitude!
[Part 5]
You wrote:
“Mr Warren says that the CJS documents I cite have nothing to do with the ET question. Really? Where's the evidence for a project Majestic in 1952 that had purely military and non-UFO/ET purposes?”
Your kidding, right!? The burden of proof falls on you Michael. You are the one spreading this nonsense without one iota of proof!
[Part 4]
You wrote:
“These kinds of hysterical emotional responses do not engage with my key criticism raised in the above paper . . .”
I would ask any reader to review my comments on your previous article, as well as this one and let them decide if my comments seemed “hysterical” in any way. I have been “clear and to the point,” and presented my arguments to you in a respectful manner—as always!
To label your critics, as “hysterical,” aside from being imprudent, is indicative of your weak position, and is an exemplar of hypocrisy. Moreover, in my retort I explained what precipitated your article, as well as Bob Salas piece i.e., I was addressing the “core” of the matter.
[Part 3]
Just like the ad revenue generated by anything you pen, which The Examiner pays you a percentage of, the more traffic to the article, the more revenue it brings in—the same mathematical principles apply to Knell’s criminal endeavors, and I state this more as an exercise, as one doesn’t need to be a “PHD” to deduce this! The more traffic you send to his site, the more people he will hoodwink—period! So yes, by leaving the article in question, in place—you are aiding and abetting a known criminal! Again, I ask you to remove it in its entirety.
[Part 2]
A couple of days later after getting hammered by so many people enlightening you about Knell’s devious character—that is when you inserted the disclaimer. Still, leaving the notion that there might be truth to the Cronkite fiction as espoused by the liar Knell. Also you left the link to his site intact, and it still is at this time—the damage was done!
Just the day after you published your article, if you Googled it, there was a “couple of hundred hits” either linking to your site, and or publishing your article in toto or partially! Today there is almost 2000 hits of the same—all with the trail leading to Knell’s web-site! (He acknowledged his appreciation by dramatically increasing the numbers of DVDs he has for sale!)
[Part 1]
Michael,
You wrote:
“Warren wants us all to believe that somehow I'm promoting criminal activities [of Bill Knell] by citing even with appropriate caveats, unreliable sources, etc.”
When you published your previous article endorsing Knell’s lies about Walter Cronkite and “linking to his site,” I contacted you “immediately” and informed you of Knell’s nefarious ways; I told you that Knell uses the internet as a tool to defraud people, and many of the victims are people you know, i.e., Ufologists who are having their copyrights infringed upon by Knell pirating their work; not to mention the victims on the other side of the coin that are buying fraudulent goods. I offered up any and all evidence for you to peruse, and vehemently urged to remove the article—you did not!
Frank, I have been able to determine that Knell is part of a disinformation/acclimation campaign that is linked to Michael Wolfe and CIA counterintelligence. If you wish to learn more, then speak with Maurizio Baiata and Paola Harris about Wolfe and his Alphacom project. Whatever criminal activities Knell engages in are likely part of his cover of "hiding the truth in plain sight". This is part of the psychological warfare program I have been emphasizing that needs to be considered.
As for the CJS Majestic memos, I actually provide the context for that in terms of ET/UFO projects in my paper in the last edition of the Exopolitics Journal. If you disagree with my argument, then show me what non-ET/UFO Majestic project existed in 1952? Since you can't point me to such a conventional project, then that supports my contention that it is one and the same with the MAJESTIC-12 Special Studies project revealed in other documents.
"I have been able to determine that Knell is part of a disinformation/acclimation campaign"
So citing him as a legitimate source of information in your Cronkite article somehow makes sense if he is a disinformation agent? Do you even think about these things before you type them?
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The Cronkite article has a clear disclaimer warning against considering Bill Knell an accurate source of information. So Wickerman get your facts straight, I do not regard him "as a legitimate source of information." His role in a disinformation/acclimation program makes him and his claims something worth following up in terms of better understanding how psychological warfare operates in the UFO field.
"I do not regard him "as a legitimate source of information.""
But he is who you cited as your source. If he isn't a legitimate source of information then why bother writing the article in the first place? Were you simply practicing your typing skills?
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