Audio interviews on the MAJIC or Majestic documents.
Personally I think the documents were mock-ups of real, valid information. This seems to happen a fair bit in this field. These two interview sessions go into things in more detail. You may be best listening to the Coast-to-Coast ones before the top one from Jeff Rense's radio show.
Robert Hastings :: Rense Radio :: April 2009
UFO vs Nukes and MJ12 / SOM101 Authenticity
Bob and Ryan Woods - MJ12 and SOM101 Documents - Hour 1
Bob and Ryan Woods - MJ12 and SOM101 Documents - Hour 2
Bob and Ryan Woods - MJ12 and SOM101 Documents - Hour 3
Disinformation Specialists Richard “Falcon” Doty and
Robert “Condor” Collins are still leaving little presents all over the
place for the uninformed and unsuspecting. Watch where you step!
Jeez! It’s not like I don’t have other things to do. With the publication of my book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites,
and following my July 18, 2008 appearance on Larry King Live, I have
received a number of intriguing and seemingly confirmatory leads from
former or retired military personnel regarding the reality of UFO
activity at nuclear weapons sites over the last six decades.
While
I would much prefer following up on those apparently legitimate leads,
I guess I am going to have to roll up my shirt sleeves and attempt to
educate a few well-intentioned but way-too-gullible folks regarding the
supposed validity of the MJ-12 “documents” and related disinformation
which is still being spread around by Richard Doty and Robert Collins,
sometimes in emails or online posts, but most egregiously in their
co-authored book Exempt From Disclosure.
The first version was published in 2005 and the second in 2008. The
Introduction, in each edition, should have opened with these words:
“First, before we begin, bend over!”
Ah well, I suppose it’s
time for me to counter-attack, before this crap-fest gains even more
ground on the Internet and at UFO conventions. (Yes, I do understand
that some folks in ufology and among the general public will not
benefit from my informed input, preferring instead their own biases and
strained theories about MJ-12. That’s not my problem.)
An Early Exposé
Hmmm,
where to begin? I guess I should mention that my ground-breaking 1989
paper “The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments” first brought to
light UFO researcher Bill Moore’s now-notorious, voluntary involvement
in the disinformation and spying operation being run out of Kirtland
AFB’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in the 1980s. It is now
online at:
The
paper also revealed, for the first time, that Moore’s allegedly
high-level U.S. Air Force sources for UFO-related disinformation—whom
he named “Falcon” and “Condor”—were in reality Sgt. Richard C. Doty and
Capt. Robert M. Collins, respectively. While other diligent
researchers, including Barry Greenwood and the late Bob Todd, had
already developed circumstantial evidence that Doty was Falcon, I was
able to divulge that Michael Seligman, the producer of the October 14,
1988 television program UFO Cover up? Live! (the ufological equivalent of Reefer Madness)
had blurted out in a taped conversation with researcher Todd Zechel
that the two leading UFO “experts” appearing in the program—back-lit
and voice-altered to hide their identities and using the pseudonyms
Falcon and Condor—were in fact Doty and Collins.
To this day, a
disgraced Bill Moore continues to claim that “Falcon” is actually
someone else—supposedly an Air Force colonel for whom Doty acted as an
intermediary. Moore further claims that Doty only stood in for the
colonel during the ridiculously bogus TV show, taking on the Falcon
persona only temporarily. Condor/Collins now tells the same convoluted
tale to anyone who will listen. The fact remains, however, that none of
the original MJ-12 promoters—Moore, Doty, or Collins—has ever produced
a shred of evidence for the colonel’s existence. After 25 years, he
remains the “man behind the curtain.” (Pay no attention to the man
behind the curtain, Dorothy! He might be much, much less than he first
appears to be.)
In any case, at one point during the televised
farce, one of the birds told the American viewing audience that
aliens—which had supposedly been captured after UFO crashes and were
living at Los Alamos—loved ancient Tibetan music and Strawberry ice
cream. (Presumably, the back-lit filming on the darkened set, designed
to hide their identities, also prevented the audience from seeing Doty
and Collins trying to keep a straight face during their interviews.)
Condor/Collins now admits to his and Doty’s participation in the
easily-discredited program but, in doing so, distorts and justifies the
affair with his trademark disinformational spin.
After I
circulated my paper to several dozen ufologists in March 1989, Moore
showed up unannounced at my front door in an obvious effort to
intimidate me into publishing a retraction. I responded by personally
sending him a letter in which I threatened to have a court-issued
injunction brought against him, to prevent him from physically
approaching me in the future. Shortly after receiving that letter,
Moore lied about it in his own letter to Caveat Emptor magazine, saying that he had received a letter from my attorney, warning him to steer clear of me. I immediately challenged Moore to produce that non-existent letter.
(It’s
now been 20 years, Mr. Moore, but I’m still waiting for a copy of my
attorney’s letter to you. Maybe your dog ate it, eh? Or maybe the MJ-12
Retrieval Squad—on one of those slow days when UFOs weren’t falling out
of the sky all over the place—came and stole it from you. Was that it,
Bill? You can come clean with us. We trust you.)
Anyway, in June 1989, The MUFON UFO Journal
published my paper and, shortly thereafter, the bird poop really hit
the fan. Several of the journal’s readers came forward with accounts of
various suspect tales being offered to them by Moore or Doty.
Importantly, Barry Greenwood and Bob Todd produced even more convincing
forensic evidence confirming the fraudulent nature of the MJ-12
“documents.” Their findings, still stand as unimpeachable, no matter
how many pro-MJ-12 wishful-thinkers tell you otherwise. A good
introduction to the many problems found by Greenwood, Todd and other
researchers may be found at:
By
July, Moore, undoubtedly sensing the inevitable, finally relented and
delivered what has naively come to be known as his “confession” speech
to a stunned audience attending MUFON’s International Symposium in Las
Vegas. In keeping with the overall situation, Moore’s mea culpa was a
combination of fact, disinformation and outright lies.
True,
Moore did spill the beans on the spying and disinfo op being run out of
Kirtland AFB’s OSI, and his willing participation in it, but he also
threw in a bunch of bull—some of it relating to myself, given that my
paper had effectively forced his revelations—and generally excused his
own abhorrent behavior as justifiable, because it supposedly served a
greater purpose.
In other words, while Moore did admit that he
had agreed to act as a spy and disinformation agent, targeting other
researchers on Doty’s behalf, he left out a lot of relevant facts, and
also twisted much of what he divulged to make him look as good as
possible under such disgraceful circumstances—saying that he had merely
been playing along with Doty so that he could get inside the disinfo
operation, as deeply as possible, and hopefully learn the real facts about UFOs from the low-level OSI agent and those to whom he reported.
If
that was actually the case, Moore’s fantasy was ridiculously naïve,
given the well-documented very high-level, need-to-know secrecy
surrounding much of the U.S. government’s handling of the UFO
phenomenon. In my opinion, Moore’s “explanation” for his actions was
actually designed to portray his own disreputable behavior in the best
possible light. (Bizarrely, on at least two occasions during Moore’s
speech, without even faintest hint of hypocritical self-consciousness,
he urged other ufologists to be more ethical in their actions in the future.)
For those of you who haven’t heard or read it, Moore’s mea culpa, later published in two consecutive issues of the MUFON UFO Journal, may be found at:
So, what did UFO researcher Moore specifically
confess to that was so repellant to his audience? Well, for starters,
he admitted to spying on fellow researchers Coral and Jim Lorenzen, the
founders of the seminal Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization (APRO),
and reporting on their activities to Doty back at Kirtland AFB.
Further, Moore said he knew that Doty had sent a hoaxed letter to the
pair, as “bait,” but because he was playing along with OSI, did not
tell them about it. At the time, Moore was serving as APRO’s Director
of Research. (All of this is of course reminiscent of the CIA’s 1953
Robertson Panel recommendation that professional intelligence
operatives infiltrate civilian UFO organizations for the purpose of
monitoring UFO-proponents’ activities. Civilian Moore did his dirty
work for the government voluntarily and for no pay, or so he claims.)
Moore
also admitted that he had performed the same shameful service by
monitoring the late Paul Bennewitz, who had been provided with
OSI-created lies about alleged UFO activity and alien schemes against
humanity. According to Moore, Bennewitz had become a target for this
disinformation and harassment after he informed OSI, in October 1980,
that he had photographed UFOs over the Manzano [Nuclear] Weapons
Storage Area, located just east of Kirtland AFB, on several occasions
during the previous 15 months. Soon-to-be-released evidence, collected
and analyzed by another researcher, will prove that this was indeed
true.
Doty and Collins, in their thoroughly unsubstantiated book, Exempted From Disclosure,
have come up with a questionable, or at least incomplete, story to
explain why Bennewitz was originally targeted. They claim that
Bennewitz had also stumbled upon a top secret counter-intelligence
program based at a facility south of Kirtland, where the Air Force was
attempting to disrupt Soviet satellites by beaming electronic signals
at them. Perhaps this was the case, however, as far as I am aware, we
have only Doty’s and Collins’ word for it. That, obviously, falls far
short of verification.
(Based on my own research into nuclear
weapons-related UFO activity, it seems as likely to me that Bennewitz
was targeted simply because he began telling anyone who would listen
that UFOs were repeatedly hovering over the Manzano WSA. As I mention
in my book, UFOs and Nukes, I
now know that similar events occurred at the Weapons Storage Areas at
Malmstrom AFB in 1975; at F.E. Warren AFB in 1980-81; and at RAF
Bentwaters in December 1980. Other researchers had already established
that such incidents also occurred at the WSAs at Wurtsmith and Loring
AFBs in 1975. Doty himself wrote an OSI report about the 1980 UFO
sightings at the Manzano facility, however, certain elements in that
document now appear to be suspect. Jeez, whatta shock!)
In his
“confession” Moore denied any responsibility for the steep decline in
Bennewitz’ mental health, even though he was fully aware of the bogus
nature of the OSI-generated stories being directed at Paul, about
underground bases where the aliens supposedly known as the Grays were
genetically-altering harvested organs from cattle and even humans they
had mutilated. At some point during this long disinformational charade,
a terrorized Bennewitz took to wearing a sidearm at home to protect
himself from the possibility of alien abduction. Mercifully, Paul
Bennewitz is now on the other side, wherever that may be, and hopefully
has more peace than Doty and the Kirtland AFB OSI ever granted him
during his last years on Earth.
According to the current crop
of Doty/Collins supporters, although Moore and his birds were lying to
everyone in sight in the 1980s, now
they’re telling the truth! As I said earlier, if you’re one of those
inclined to believe that Falcon and Condor have actually belatedly
revealed the facts in their book, you royally deserve the poop they
dropped on you!
The Duping of Linda Moulton Howe
Anyway,
if all of the were not enough, Moore, together with Doty and Collins,
also performed the same kind of disinformation-based operation against
the sincere but gullible Linda Moulton Howe, an Emmy-award filmmaker
whom OSI had also targeted, apparently with the intention of derailing
the HBO-funded documentary on a U.S. government UFO cover-up she had
been contracted to produce.
In a series of letters between Howe
and HBO, copies of which she later sent to me, Linda repeatedly pleaded
for more time to do her work, saying that her Air Force contact (Doty)
had promised her film footage of the Roswell UFO recovery and other
spectacular documentation, as long as she would cooperate with the
government’s own time-table for the film’s release. Of course, these
promises were more of Doty’s lies, delaying tactics designed to
postpone as long as possible the production’s completion. (Even Moore
admitted as much, during his Las Vegas speech, in a frustratingly
far-too-rare moment of candor.)
Eventually fed up by the delays,
HBO lost interest and let the time-dependent contract with Howe lapse.
So, what potentially may have been a worthwhile UFO documentary, had
Howe not fallen into Moore’s and Falcon’s clutches, never materialized.
For his part, Condor/Collins now claims that he himself never
misled Howe about the legitimacy of the MJ-12 documents and the other
information provided to her by Doty. During a February 28, 2009 email
exchange with me, which is now posted at http://tinyurl.com/cokk6f
Collins indignantly denied that he had ever shown Linda Moulton Howe
MJ-12-related “documents” at his home in Albuquerque, in November 1987.
“Linda has a hard time getting her facts right,” he wrote, “And [I]
never showed Linda anything related to Mj12 when she was at the house
in '87.”
However, following that heated exchange, I listened
to an audiotape recording I had made of an October 22, 1988 telephone
conversation with Howe. The UFO Cover-up? Live!
TV show had been broadcast only a few days earlier, on October 14th,
and I wanted to get her take on it. The following pertinent excerpts
from that tape follow here:
LMH:“Only me. [It had] nothing to do with John Lear.”
RH:
“So, John Lear wasn’t associated with that at all then? I thought you’d
said that he was trying to get you and John Lear together...”
LMH: “No, but John Lear went with me to see Collins in November, a year ago.”
RH: “That’s what I’m asking about. So, it was November of ’87?”
LMH: “Yeah, we were at Collins’ house because I invited John to go with me...”
RH: “Um, you said that Collins, at his home in Albuquerque, showed you a number of documents.”
LMH: “Yeah, he had a ring binder...”
RH: “Of uncensored documents?”
LMH: “Yeah, of uncensored documents.”
RH: “Including the Eisenhower briefing paper?” (Perhaps the most important of the MJ-12 “documents”)
LMH: “Yeah.”
RH: “What else did he have?”
LMH: “He had some memos allegedly from MJ-5 and MJ-8, one of which I had seen before, in ‘83. So, I assume he got it from Moore.”
RH:
“Um, did he lead you to believe, uh, you said before that he made the
statement that he was working with Moore. Did he imply that he was one
of the sources that was supplying Moore with documents?”
LMH:
“No, he never said it in that light. He said he was assisting Bill
Moore with research, so I find it interesting that he ended up being
“Condor”, if that’s the case, and I think it is.”
RH:
“Well, let’s assume for the moment that Collins is “Condor.” Um, the
relationship would be, if you take at face value what he’s saying [in
UFO Cover-up? Live!], that he’s supplying Moore with information,
rather than Moore giving him documents and so on.”
LMH: “Right, right.”
RH:
“More specifically, what were the documents, or what were some of the
things Collins was saying to you, about the information [he had in his
possession]? Does it tie into the alien supposedly at Area 51 and all
of that?”
LMH: “Yeah. Oh yeah!”
RH: “How about the underground bases in New Mexico?”
LMH:
“In terms of Area 51, I wouldn’t say that Collins was far-ranging [in
his comments to me]. Some of the other stuff [he told me] went into
underground bases in New Mexico and all of that. But Area 51 is key
[and] he knows about Archuleta [Mesa]. He has some questions about what
Bennewitz has [claimed] but he’s not denying everything [relating to a
supposed underground alien base at the mountain site]. I think
Bennewitz’ work is of interest to them.
RH: “Have you heard references to live aliens living at Kirtland [AFB]?”
LMH: “Yeah, Los Alamos.”
RH: “Los Alamos, but not Kirtland?”
LMH:
“No. That CE11 (?) electromagnetic chamber is supposed to be only at
Los Alamos and at Edwards [AFB]. There’s only supposed to be two of
them. Whether we put the aliens in the electromagnetic enclosure to
keep them in, or to keep our minds shielded from them, I don’t know. It
could be both.”
RH: “Who gave you the information relating to these two locations, Los Alamos and Edwards?”
LMH: “I saw it in one of the memos in the ring binder that Bob Collins showed me.”
RH: “But Doty never made reference to that?”
LMH: “No, nope.”
END OF TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT
So,
in a taped conversation less than one year after-the-fact, Linda
Moulton Howe unequivocally stated that Condor/Collins did indeed meet
with her, and John Lear, at his house in Albuquerque, in November
1987—at which time he showed the two of them a number of MJ-12-related
documents and memos, and vouched for their legitimacy.
As
noted earlier, Collins now denies that such a meeting with Howe ever
took place. However, as I mentioned to him in our recent email
exchange, it seems to me that a court of law, where everyone would be
testifying under oath, may be the best venue to sort all of this out.
Of course, in John Lear, we have someone who can presumably support
Howe’s version of events.
The bottom line: Robert Collins is
now once again lying about his past. He was directly involved in
disseminating disinformation related to MJ-12 as early as November
1987—an endeavor he was actively, publicly pursuing a year later, in
the guise of Condor, on UFO Cover-up? Live!
(And, I will argue, a function he continues to perform today, some 20
years later. He once used a ring binder; now he has email and the
Internet.)
While none of us, save Linda Howe and John Lear, were
at Collins’ home to observe the little mind games to which she was
unwittingly subjected, each of us can nevertheless evaluate the public
statements made by Condor/Collins on the television show and judge for
ourselves whether or not he was actively engaged in a disinformational
game designed to confuse the issue relating to the U.S. government’s
involvement with UFOs.
Unfortunately, even after her futile,
months-long wait for the “Roswell UFO” film, Linda still spoke
glowingly of the supposedly legitimate UFO-related information she was
getting from her inside sources at Kirtland, not realizing that she was
playing into Doty’s and Collins’ hands by unwittingly assisting in the
dissemination of their disinformation, first within ufological circles
and eventually to a wider public audience. Indeed, in the late 1980s,
newspaper and magazine stories about MJ-12 were rampant for a period of
time.
In any case, during another moment of candor during in
his Las Vegas speech, Bill Moore said, “Disinformation is a strange and
bizarre game. Those who play it are completely aware that an
operation’s success is dependant upon dropping information upon a
target, or ‘mark,’ in such a way that the person will accept it as
truth and will repeat, and even defend it to others as if it were true.
Once this has been accomplished, the work of the counterintelligence
specialists is complete. They can simply withdraw in the confidence
that the dirty work of spreading their poisonous seeds will be done by
others. Those of you who want proof of how well the process works only
need look at the Bennewitz case, or the Aztec [UFO crash] case. Every
time one of you [ufologists] repeats an unverified or unsubstantiated
bit of information, without qualifying it as such, you are contributing
to that process; and every time you do it, somebody in a need-to-know
position sits back and has a horse laugh at your expense.”
What Moore didn’t
say, given his obvious intention to project himself as someone who was
on top of the situation—someone who was secretly using the users—is
that he was arguably as much a victim of OSI’s schemes as were Howe and
Bennewitz. His self-confessed willingness to get his “hands dirty” for
Doty, as he so aptly put it, has cost him dearly, as well it should.
Anyway,
just before I circulated my MJ-12 paper in March 1989, I called Linda
Howe a final time and pleaded with her to disavow her endorsement of
the claims that Doty, Collins and Moore had made to her. I then wrote
her a letter, in which I sincerely praised her cattle mutilation
investigations, but warned her of the damage she was creating, both to
her own reputation, and to ufology in general, by supporting and
spreading around the quite-obvious disinformation she had been given.
Howe never responded.
In any case, after his pathetic
performance in Las Vegas, Bill Moore was effectively drummed out of
legitimate ufological circles and, thankfully, has more or less faded
from public view. Alas, unlike Moore, other members of the Kirtland
Cabal appear to have still more poop to share with all of us and
continue to foul the ufological landscape with their, ahem, “inside”
information and allegedly astute insights.
Falcon’s Follies
As
bait, Linda Howe had initially been approached and presented with a
now-discredited Air Force “report” on a supposed UFO/alien encounter at
one of Ellsworth AFB’s nuclear missile sites in 1977. It is now known
that Richard “Falcon” Doty was involved in the forging of that
“document”—a fact first revealed by UFO researcher Dr. Bruce Maccabee
and later alluded to by Bill Moore himself, in his Las Vegas speech.
Doty also forged many other UFO-related files, according to an informed
source whom I interviewed in February 2004. I will gladly present that
individual in a court of law, if circumstances permit.
More
recently, Condor/Collins has posted at his website another alleged
account of UFO activity at Ellsworth, supposedly occurring in 1970. The
title of the posting is “Ellsworth Air Force Base SD UFO Incident
1977—or was it really 1970?” This blatant come-on ignores the fact that
the 1977 incident was a hoax, something Collins knows full well, given
that his own book’s co-author, Richard Doty, forged the “report” on it.
To insure that the new “document” would be noticed, Collins emailed a
link to it to a very long list of individuals on March 10, 2007, but
wisely covered himself by asking the recipients whether it was real or
not.
On his website, Collins has a scan of the newly-discovered
“report.” Upon learning of it, I forwarded the alleged Air Force report
to one of my retired Minuteman missile targeting team sources, USAF
TSgt. John Mills, whose dramatic 1978 UFO encounter in Ellsworth AFB’s
missile field I mention in my book, UFOs and Nukes. He quickly found numerous factually-inaccurate statements and format errors in the “report” and calls it an obvious hoax.
For
example, Mills writes, “The site [where the incident supposedly
occurred] is listed as Delta 4, in the 68th Strategic Missile Squadron.
Delta 4 was [actually] in the 66th Strategic Missile Squadron out near
Philip. Opposite ends of the spectrum [geographically] and the wrong
squadron to boot.” Mills then devoted a full page to identifying the
great many technical errors contained in the supposed “report”
circulated by Collins. His unequivocal conclusion: “The document is
totally bogus.”
So here we have yet another example of Robert
“Condor” Collins disseminating a hoaxed document about UFOs, more than
two decades after his first disinformational endeavors, which were
intended to mislead researcher Linda Moulton Howe and, eventually, the
general public. I wonder if Collins’ current publishing partner,
Richard Doty, forged this “document” too? As mentioned earlier, I have
been told by a highly reliable source that Doty belatedly admitted to
forging a number of documents while with OSI. But, once again, it seems
to me that this question is best answered in a court of law, where
everyone is placed under oath, and where lies become perjury,
punishable by fine and/or imprisonment.
In their book, Exempt from Disclosure,
on the “About the Authors” page, Condor/Collins and Falcon/Doty
summarize their military backgrounds. Mention is made of Doty’s being
recruited as an agent by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
(AFOSI or simply OSI) in 1978, his graduation from OSI Academy in
Washington D.C., and his subsequent assignment with the OSI District
Office 17 at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, in May 1979, where he became
involved in a program relating to the “collection of intelligence and
counterintelligence [pertaining to] UFOs and other foreign
intelligence.”
This last reference is a polite way of saying,
and excusing the fact, that Doty secretly spied on American citizens
who had an interest in UFOs, recruited at least one civilian researcher
(Moore) to assist him in those operations, and disseminated
disinformation to those same unwitting persons with the intention of
deflecting their interest in false directions, thereby disrupting their
ability to decipher the governments’ actual knowledge of, and
activities relating to, UFOs.
Unfortunately, some of those
OSI-targets themselves naively disseminated that disinformation to an
international audience—and, in doing so, polluted the collective
understanding of what really has gone on in secrecy—with a mixture of
lies, half-truths and paranoid fantasies. A variation of this
dissemination process continues to this day, with the release of the
latest MJ-12 “documents” and the disinformational rehash, sometimes
with new twists, offered up by Doty and Collins, not only in their
bogus book, but also in numerous emails and online postings.
Not
surprisingly, the bio on Doty that appears in the jointly-authored book
neglects to mention that, after being transferred from Kirtland to
Wiesbaden AFB, Germany, he got into some kind of trouble allegedly
involving the handling of money, according to then-Commander of the
1608th Security Police Squadron, Major Ernest Edwards, who knew Doty in
New Mexico. While the available details remain sketchy, it has been
confirmed that Doty was subsequently stripped of his agent status,
booted from OSI and, upon returning to Kirtland AFB, ended up working
in the base’s East Dining Hall, until his retirement on November 1,
1988. I have a copy of Doty’s DD-214—a summary of his military
service—which confirms his unglamorous last assignment in the Air
Force.
Upon retiring, Doty applied to be a New Mexico State
Policeman and was hired. When I mentioned Doty’s troubles in Germany to
Gabe Valdez, also a state policeman—who is best known for his cattle
mutilation investigations—he told me that his own brother, yet another
state policeman, was the individual who had done the background check
on Doty during the state police application process. Valdez then added,
“I guess we didn’t do a very good job.” Frankly, I agree with that
assessment.
Now, Doty will probably deny all of this, as he did
to various journalists in 1989—I still have his letters to them—but the
facts mentioned here would be verified in court, if it comes to that.
When those journalists and others began asking questions about Doty’s
whereabouts after leaving the Air Force, in the wake of Bill Moore’s
admissions about the OSI disinformation operation at the MUFON
convention, Doty tried to lay low by telling some of them that he was
on a secret intelligence assignment that he could not discuss. I have
those letters too, Rick. In reality, Doty was working at the time as a
state policeman in Grants, New Mexico, a fact confirmed to me by Gabe
Valdez.
Shortly after I circulated my MJ-12 paper, Doty wrote
a nasty letter to me, denying all of my published paper’s revelations
about Moore, Collins and himself. Not knowing that I knew of his actual
whereabouts, he also once again claimed that he was currently working
on a secret intelligence assignment and could not be contacted
directly. However, Doty wrote, he had a P.O. box in Grants where he
received mail. I quickly responded by sending a certified letter to his
attention at the Grants state police office. Realizing that I had
caught him in yet another lie, he never responded. I still have both of
those letters too, Mr. Doty.
The Serpo Hoax
In
2006, a group of British researchers, operating under the banner of
Reality Uncovered (RU), initiated an online exposé relating to another
of Richard Doty’s attempts at disinformation. Titled “Project Serpo
Uncovered,” their now-reorganized findings open with:
On
2nd November 2005, Victor Martinez, the moderator of a UFOlogy-related
electronic mailing list, posted an email from an anonymous source
claiming to be a retired official of the U.S. government. The
information referred to a top secret exchange program of twelve U.S.
military personnel to planet ‘Serpo,’ a planet in the Zeta Reticuli
star system, between the years 1965-78.
More messages soon
followed and so did a website, all promoting the same general idea;
that of ET contact and an extended stay on an alien planet.
The
facts however paint a rather different picture to the fantastical
‘Exchange Program’ outlined above. The majority of the information
regarding the Serpo Project has either passed through or is directly
from Richard Doty, a person well-known in the field of UFOlogy.
Furthermore, some of the names brought out to lend support to the
story, in particular Paul McGovern, are in reality also none other than
Richard Doty. Read on for the real story behind Project Serpo...
All of this may be found at www.realityuncovered.net, where there is an overview of the Serpo hoax investigation by RU.
A
detailed discussion on the same website (www.realityuncovered.net)
regarding Richard Doty pretending to be Paul McGovern may be found
there as well. Bob Collins copied me on a supposed Doty/McGovern email
exchange as recently as March 29, 2009. In view of RU’s investigation,
Collins’ email should have been titled “Doty Talks to Himself.” In any
case, the Serpo hoax is alive and well, thanks to Falcon’s and Condor’s
latest online droppings.
One of those posting on the RU forum, Shawnna Connolly, eventually confronted Doty in an email, challenging the claim found in Exempt from Disclosure
that Doty had attended law school and passed a New Mexico bar exam,
thus sparking an exchange every bit as nasty as those from the late
1980s, when a newly-exposed Falcon/Doty sparred with journalists and
researchers, including myself. A summary of the Doty/Connolly exchange
currently posted at the RU website begins:
Rick Doty's Blackmail…
This
is a continuation of the release of information that has been gathered
during the long investigation into the Project Serpo story by Reality
Uncovered. This part includes a few examples of the many incidents of
unethical behaviour by two of the individuals responsible for
‘delivering’ Serpo to the public domain. The following is updated
information we are providing to help make everyone aware of what has
really been going on ‘behind the scenes’ of Serpo...
Doty's Harassment of Shawnna
Toward
the end of the ‘heated’ argument between Collins & Doty and us
regarding the Bar Exam and Law School issues, Richard Doty started
privately emailing Shawnna threatening emails. He claimed to have some
information about trouble with the law in her past and threatened to
make those [sic] public unless she stopped talking about him. He was
threatening to use a fabricated criminal past about Shawnna if she
wouldn't remain silent about her findings. At one point in the evening,
Mr. Doty sent Shawnna 8 emails in the span of one hour.
June 15th, Rick sent Shawnna the following email:
From: "Rick Doty"
Date: June 15, 2006 8:32:43 PM PDT
To: "Shawnna Connolly"
Subject:
Re: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [Norton AntiSpam] Re:
SERPO, SEINU and DISCLOSURE Open Mind -The Progressive Sceptics and
Para-Politics Forum - Bob Collins resolves the 'Doty email' issue
Ms. Connolly:
You have falsified several things about me, my occupation and my past. You have hoaxed my email address and my name.
Now, if you wish to see how well I'm versed in law, I'll show you.
-----------------------
Nine minutes later - he sends her the following threat:
----------------------
From: "Rick Doty"
Date: June 15, 2006 8:41:37 PM PDT
To: "Shawnna Connolly"
Subject: Re: Convicted Felon
I
was just informed by two people on Victor Martinez's list that you are
a convicted felon. You were convicted of forgery and embezzlement.
I will publish this on the forum.
-----------------------
Shawnna - never one to be phased [sic] by threats, calls his bluff:
----------------------
From: Shawnna Connolly
To:
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 21:53
Subject: Your threat - "Convicted Felon"
[You] appear to be desperate, Mr. Doty.
I have NEVER done anything wrong in my entire life, much less been charged, or convicted of ANYTHING.
Go
ahead and post this - it would be my pleasure to SUE a New Mexico state
policeman presenting false information on the internet and fraudulently
passing himself off as a lawyer (page 91, second edition of Exempt from
Disclosure, and page 96 of the first edition of Exempt from Disclosure).
Always,
Shawnna
-----------------------
But
Doty continues using his threatening tactics - I'm sure they've worked
before. But apparently he's never met anyone like Shawnna before....
----------------------
From: "Rick Doty"
To: "Shawnna Connolly"
Subject: Re: Your threat - "Convicted Felon"
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:57:50 +0000
You'd have to sue the persons who spread the information, mainly Victor's list of people, who forwarded me the email.
Now, you see how things can be spread? Whether its truth or not, it was spread.
Oh, I'll spread it, just like you spread lies about me.
By the way, you can't sue unless you can prove venue, which can't be done on Internet traffic. You might want to check the laws!
Just keep you mouth shut about me and I'll do the same with you.
If not, then things will get very interesting with Internet Traffic.
-----------------------
While
the threats were disturbing, Shawnna would not allow Mr. Doty to
intimidate her, and she contacted the NM State Police and forwarded
this information & evidence of all of the threats to his immediate
supervisor.
Shawnna heard back from his supervisor as a result
of our report. Capt. Pete Kassetas of the New Mexico State Patrol [sic]
assured Shawnna that Mr. Doty had been spoken to and would not be
contacting her again. He also said that if for some reason she did hear
from Mr. Doty again, she was to contact him right away. Shawnna asked
Capt. Kassetas if the department was OK with Doty claiming to have
passed the NM State Bar exam and presenting himself to be a lawyer—his
response was that he couldn't talk to her about the details but that
issue was also being investigated.
Shawnna hasn't heard from Doty since...
END OF WEBSITE POSTING
This
exchange is also at www.realityuncovered.net. After reading it, I found
the reference to which Ms. Connolly alluded in the 2005 edition of Exempt from Disclosure, regarding Doty’s claims of having passed the New Mexico bar exam. It reads:
Since
retiring from the Air Force in November 1988 I have managed to have a
successful second career as a New Mexico State Trooper having received
many commendations for my outstanding work in the field of law
enforcement. During the last few years I have been able to finish my
law degree and recently just passed the New Mexico state Bar examine
[sic]...
This claim by Doty is absolutely false, as anyone
who wishes to check into the matter will discover. In fact, a few
members of RU did just that and got written confirmation from the
University of New Mexico that Doty’s and Collins’ claims about Doty
having graduated from the university’s law school in 2003 were untrue.
That discussion may be found by searching: www.realityuncovered.net
([keyword law claims] While the thought of Doty as an attorney is
laughable on many levels, I note here his documented 25-year history of
rampant misspelling—e.g. “examine” for “exam”—as well as his poor
grammar, as evidenced in his many communications with others, not to
mention the letters and documents he has forged over the years.)
So,
Mr. Doty and Mr. Collins, what kind of excrement will you two birds
drop to rebut this illuminating cache of information from the Reality
Uncovered folks? Go for it! I have already pulled on my Hi-Top rubber
boots.
Regardless, I think Shawnna Connolly—given her sincere
quest for the facts and her obvious bravery in the face of
intimidation—would make an excellent witness in a courtroom. So would
Stephen Broadbent and the other researchers associated with the Reality
Uncovered (realityuncovered.net) exposé on Serpo, MJ-12, and related
disinformation. A fuller discussion of these topics may be found at:
www.realityuncovered.net (keyword "blog")
Aaaargh! Speaking of MJ-12, I must now return to that sordid subject yet again.
MJ-Hell: It Still Lives!
For those of you unaware of this
unfortunate development, we now have new-and-improved MJ-12 “documents”
to further muddy the waters. Although no involvement with them on the
part of Moore, Doty and/or Collins has been proved thus far, both Doty
and Collins endorse their authenticity. These bogus papers came out of
the woodwork, just as the first batch did 25 years ago, with no
verifiable origin—that is, having no provenance, something essential to
historical research, not to mention separating fact from fiction.
Despite the sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle flaws and fabrications
found in the latest batch of MJ-12 papers, a few well-intentioned
researchers—who should have learned their lesson the first time
around—have taken the new “documents” to heart and have, of their own
volition, disseminated them far and wide while vouching for, or at
least implicitly endorsing, their integrity. There are several websites
devoted to the supposed validity of this MJ-Crap 2.0, but I certainly
won’t advertize those fetid flytraps here.
I recommend instead
the Fund for UFO Research’s online heads-up about one of the
“documents,” the so-called SOM 1-01 field manual, supposedly written
for military personnel engaged in the recovery of crashed UFOs:
The
bio for one of the authors of this specially-issued bulletin, veteran
UFO researcher Jan L. Aldrich, summarizes his expertise by saying that
he “is familiar with protocols for establishing tactical bivouac areas
with exclusion areas, operational security, and nuclear weapon
accident/incident operations during field deployments. While at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, he was with the Directorate of Training Development,
where he was tasked with analyzing and developing training manuals and
materials.”
In a recent email to me, Aldrich wrote,
Robert,
[Regarding]
Robert M. Collins, who had experience in military intelligence, I have
difficulty believing anyone with much military experience would endorse
SOM 1-01. I understand that the USAF is not generally thought of as a
field-operating organization. However, that said, they do have to go
out and do crash rescue and recovery, they do have to do technical
intelligence on captured enemy equipment and, further, they have to
engage in normal operational security and counter-intelligence. Also,
the writing of operational and technical manuals has very simple
standards for organization, content and maintenance. Even a short
exposure to the military, as an officer, should have been enough [for
Collins] to see the faults and failings in SOM 1-01...
[The]
style of writing and the simple act of updating of the manual, which is
not done properly, should give clues that this item was a fake...even a
nodding acquaintance with the military should have raised all types of
red flags when reading through SOM 1-01...
Jan
In
a follow-up email, in response to my request for some specifics
relating to the flaws found in the supposedly-genuine 1954 field
manual, Aldrich wrote:
I [found] about 50 problems with SOM
1-01 when I quit looking at the manual. If you go into the UFO Update
[website] archives, I went into great detail about them. The emails are
contained in the first few months of the archive.
Despite
that exhaustive effort, Aldrich then generously devoted two full Word
document pages to further critiquing the SOM 1-01 for me. For those of
you interested in reading his comments, I have placed the full text at
the end of this article. At the end of the critique, Aldrich wrote:
When
I arrived in Europe [in 1984], I was not sufficiently trained in
security and intelligence to do my job. I took every course that U.S.
Army Europe had to offer, and dozens of correspondence courses, some of
which amounted to over 120 sub-course booklets. One of the things I
studied was the history of classified documents and directives from
Truman on up to the [then] present day. As a subject-matter expert for
Army meteorology, I had to analyze various training, operations, and
maintenance manuals. Since the then-current system, at the time of my
job, came into the Army inventory in 1947, I am very familiar with 1954
manuals, as the manual for hydrogen-generating equipment was originally
written in 1954, and was still in use during my tenure.
[MJ-12
proponents such as] the Woods, Friedman, and Hamilton have an answer
for my and others’ objections. [However, while] they all know what they
are talking about for manuals, security, and operations in the 1980s,
it was different in 1954. They apparently have no idea what was going
on then...
I was also in a critical nuclear weapons position
for seven years, so I know about sensitive operations and security.
Twice, I served as acting Intelligence Officer in a nuclear-capable
artillery battalion. I also served for a time as an adjutant, both
unusual positions for an enlisted man. Finally, I served on the Special
Staff of the Commanding General of the Southern European Taskforce. So
I have significant experience in a number of areas related to manuals,
operations, and security. I have, at one time or another, had the
additional duties of Top Secret Control Officer, Classified Document
Custodian, Communication Security (COMSEC) Custodian, Cosmic TS Control
Officer, Security Manager, Interviewing Officer for Special Background
Investigations, Nuclear Release Authentication Training Officer, etc.
Well,
as noted earlier, the man knows his field manuals. Fortunately, the
person(s) who forged the SOM-01-I “manual” did not, which makes
exposing it easier, at least for knowledgeable and credible military
document examiners such as Aldrich.
I will also mention this fact, excerpted from the wikipedia.org webpage on MJ-12, which is at http://tinyurl.com/c56bn8:
A
document entitled ‘SOM1-01:Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology,
Recovery and Disposal’ and found on www.majesticdocuments.com contains
paragraphs with subheads set in the sans serif ‘Helvetica’ typeface.
The document purports to be from 1954 yet the typeface in question was
first designed in 1957 by the Swiss graphic designer, Max Miedinger.
The capitalized sans serif letter ‘R’ (and others) found on many pages
confirms that this typeface is not the much earlier Akzidenz Grotesk
sans serif typeface. This evidence seems to strongly suggest that this
document is a fabrication.
The bottom line: As was the
case with the earlier batch of MJ-12 “documents” that surfaced 25 years
ago, the newly-disseminated MJ-12-related SOM-01-I “field manual” is
undoubtedly a forgery.
However, frustratingly, the great
majority of folks who so confidently hold-forth on the supposed
authenticity of the alleged field manual, and other MJ-12 papers, are
not qualified to address these arcane technical issues, which is why
Moore, Doty and Collins and their ilk have gotten away with so much
over the years, at least in some quarters, when they dress up their
disinformation as legitimate history.
While no evidence
currently exists to link the bogus “field manual” to Doty or Collins,
the fact that both of them promote its legitimacy so vigorously is
sufficient cause for concern. Whether this “document’ is eventually
proven to be one of the Doty-created forgeries, mentioned to me by my
confidential source, remains to be seen.
Finally, in a
long-overdue but welcomed follow-up to my 1989 article on MJ-12,
researcher Brad Sparks’ comprehensive, well-documented paper on the
subject, which he delivered at MUFON’s 2007 International Symposium,
only serves to substantiate my initial findings regarding the
disinformational underpinnings of the entire, apparently never-ending
MJ-12 charade. Sparks’ illuminating paper may be found at:
Whether
or not Falcon/Doty and Condor/Collins are actually
officially-sanctioned disinformation agents these days, or merely
habitual liars with an as-yet unknown agenda, if a large feathery
creature approaches you with the offer of leaked UFO “documents” or
“inside” information about the U.S. government cover-up of same, I
would be very, very wary. Better yet—to quote Monty Python—Run away!
Run away!
Alas, far too many individuals, confident in their own
positions on MJ-12 and Serpo, will never take this advice. It takes two
to tango, and Doty and Collins could not have succeeded in their
schemes were it not for the seemingly endless supply of
sincere-but-gullible ufologists, ufological-wannabes, and the
occasional, usually self-appointed document expert. As noted earlier,
Bill Moore once said in a moment of candor, “Every time one of you
repeats an unverified or unsubstantiated bit of information, without
qualifying it as such, you are contributing to [the] process [of
spreading the disinformants’ poisonous seeds]; and every time you do
it, somebody in a need-to-know position sits back and has a horse laugh
at your expense.”
But these unwitting dupes will get no pity
from me. Their own lack of due-diligence, at least in most cases, has
left them in the untenable position where they now find themselves. No,
it’s the millions of people in the general, uninformed, unsuspecting
public who warrant my concern. Countless humans worldwide wonder about
the merits of the UFO phenomenon and are genuinely seeking credible
information upon which to form an opinion. Then come along “conmen”
like Fal-con and Con-dor, together with their witting or unwitting
civilian stooges, to make things much more difficult for the average
person on-the-street, who is simply looking for the facts about UFOs, such as they are, at the present time.
So
sue me for libel, Mr. Doty and/or Mr. Collins! I’m ready to take it to
the next level. Let’s see how your, and Mr. Moore’s, myriad of lies
hold-up in a legal venue. It’s high time we put all of your shenanigans
behind us, once and for all. You know where to reach me. The ball is in
your court. Until then, I will continue to write articles and emails
about your bogus “contributions” to ufology.
Admittedly and
understandably, differences of opinion exist about what UFOs are, and
what those who pilot them are up to. For example, despite my 35-year
investigation of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites—which, unlike
the MJ-12 saga, relies on authentic
declassified U.S. government documents, as well as the taped testimony
of more than 100 USAF veterans who don’t need to hide behind bird names
and can be openly identified—a great many people nevertheless remain
skeptical about the validity of my findings. That’s entirely
understandable and predictable. Paradigm shifts usually take time and
the universal acceptance of the UFO reality will be no different.
However,
when already-exposed tricksters such as Richard Doty and Robert Collins
continue to intentionally confuse the issue, by disingenuously
spreading around their poop as if it were real data, worthy of
investigation and eventual acceptance—when it is actually worthless,
not to mention misleading, as it is intended to be—then the rest of us,
ufologists or otherwise, must stand firm and at every opportunity
expose these incorrigible liars for what they are.
Those who
are “disinforming” us about UFOs are effectively delaying our
understanding of the facts by lying about the government’s actual
knowledge of the phenomenon. Moreover, these agents’ input is all the
more corrosive because it provides free ammunition to the UFO-debunking
crowd, who only have to point to Doty’s and Collins’ many bogus
utterances, about this or that, to justify to themselves that the whole
UFO question is unworthy of their time and attention.
For
example, it appears that the Reality Uncovered folks, despite their
excellent investigations relating to the MJ-12 and Serpo hoaxes, have
“thrown the baby out with the bathwater,” by mistakenly assuming that
the disinformants’ nonsense is the only UFO data worth pursuing. While
preparing this article, I contacted two of the website’s moderators and
another leading contributor. I first complimented their exposé on Doty
and Collins and then mentioned my own, well-grounded research on UFO
activity at nuclear weapons sites, and provided them with information
pertaining to the testimony from my ex-USAF sources about the
UFO-reality. None of them ever responded.
Even prior to my
contact with them, the RU moderators had contemptuously referred to
persons such as myself as UFO “believers” on their website. I suspect,
however, if I were to call them UFO “unbelievers” they would strongly
reject the label. That serious people take UFOs seriously seems to have
escaped them, to borrow a phrase from researcher Robert J. Durant. (In
fact, they probably won’t even get my point here, so I will spell it
out for them: Drawing conclusions about something, after first
rigorously investigating it, is fundamentally different from blindly
“believing” in it.)
While it’s true, alas, that most UFO
debunkers are unreasonably biased against the subject at the outset,
even before examining the evidence, the disinformation now being spread
around by Doty, Collins and their ilk—about pitched gun-battles at
underground alien bases, and alien/U.S. military exchange programs
between Earth and a distant planet, to mention two of the bogus stories
currently in circulation—only further delays serious attention being
paid to UFOs by any semi-open-minded scientist or journalist who, among
other skeptics, will now have to be convinced even more of the validity
of UFO research.
In short, disinformants are serving masters
whose goals run counter to humankind’s collective long-term interests
and enlightenment. If you who are reading this are blindly repeating
and/or actively promoting any one of the many lies that Richard Doty
and Robert Collins have posted on the Internet, or have spread around
in emails, then you are unwittingly serving those unseen masters too. I
think I hear a horse laugh somewhere in the distance.
Jan L. Aldrich’s critique of the SOM 1-01 “Field Manual”
The
following items are neither the most important nor vital objections to
SOM 1-01, rather some of the problems with it which are easy to
understand without a lot of background and extensive commentary. --JLA1. Posting Changes to Manuals:
In
1954, [one] received changes to a manual generally in the form of a
document which had the changes-to-be-made written out, instructing the
manual's owner to add, cross out, or change items in the manual. For
example, such instructions might be:
Change 1, dated 5 November 1957, to SOM1-01, 1954:
Page
22, paragraph 2.c.2 change the words: ‘send to the nearest ASF
collections point.’ To: ‘send to the Centralized ASF collection point,
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.’
After the change had been made in
the manual, the owner would write on the page ‘Changed by Change 1
dated 5 Nov 57,’ and indicate the date changed and his initials.
Generally, the fact that the manual has been changed appears at the
beginning of the paragraph changed. As some of these changes could
change just about every page in the manual, the absolute minimum
annotation would be ‘C-1 12 Nov 57 JLA..’ Most changes in the 1950s
were made by hand written annotations, but even back then, there were
tear-out pages which required the old page(s) be removed and new pages
inserted. The new page would be have the change number indicated on the
page.
[Despite these formal Army requirements,] SOM 1-01
indicates in the front cover that a number of changes were made, but
nowhere in the manual are any of these changes indicated or annotated.
Also, the requirement is that the outside cover of the manual be
annotated with ‘Change 1 dated 5 Nov 57 posted 12 Nov 57 JLA.’ Such
annotation on the cover indicates to the user who might be different
than the manual's owner or custodian, that the manual was up to date
with all relevant changes posted.
With a classified manual
[like the allegedly genuine SOM 1-01], not posting or properly
annotating the postings could be considered a security violation...
2. Manual Style. Paragraphs, Sub-paragraphs:
If
you have a sub-paragraph, e.g. 2.a.1 then it must have a paragraph
2.a.2 as a minimum. If you don't, then the subparagraph (or, in this
example, the sub-subparagraph) is not required. That is a military
style requirement. However, a change could supersede subparagraph
2.a.2, but again, that the change was made should be annotated on the
page.
3. Recovery Operations:
The manual instructs that
operations be conducted so that the press and public cannot gain access
or know what is going on. [But] it does not instruct the recovery team
to utilize camouflage nets or tentage to preclude viewing from higher
ground or from aircraft such as the press might hire to have a look
about what is going on.
4. Recovery Operations and Technical Intelligence:
The
manual does not tell recovery teams to set up a grid, photograph the
scene and tag each item for future reference. (Identifying material and
where it is found is, of course, basic to technical intelligence.)
5. Organization and Equipment:
The
manual does not explain what specialized gear, what protective gear,
what type of personnel occupational specialties, and what
specific training would be required for recovery teams.
There is no guidance about supply rates, consumables, etc.; material handling gear and transportation, and communications.
7. Chain of command:
Who does the recovery team report to? [There is no mention of any kind.]
8. Special conditions:
How are liquids, gasses, fires and hazardous material handled in he recovery operations. [There is no mention of any kind.]
9. Standards:
The
manual says that the site will be cleaned to the satisfaction of the
commander in charge of the operation. This goes without saying and is
not guidance at all. Military manuals of all epochs, since at least
WWII, despite differences in wording and policy at the time, all
contain elements of conducting military operations which are readily
identifiable: That is ‘Task’ (what is to be done); ‘Conditions’ (under
what kind of environment is the task to be preformed); and ‘Standards’
(what are minimum acceptable outcomes of the task). Basically, all
military manuals can be analyzed in this manner...
In
addition, I offer an opinion that in such [UFO] recovery operations,
there would probably be instruction about removing soil from the area
of a crash site. Interestingly enough years later, I obtained some
information about a case of an explosion over western Maryland in he
1970s. Lou Corbin looked into before he died. The farm in question was
showered with metallic fragments after the explosion. The farmer and
neighbors picked some up. Corbin found that the military arrived at the
farm, scraped off all the soil with earthmoving equipment, carted it
off and replaced the farmer's soil. Corbin had the fragments analyzed
by a NASA scientist. They were of earthly origin. However, the point is
that SOM 1-01 is lacking in details for operations that the military
actually engages in.