MJ-12 UPDATE

 
   \RBBS\DL\MJ12SR03.UFO                                                                                                           SPECIAL RELEASE:

      MJ-12 UPDATE

      

      

      ParaNet  Alpha  09/29  --  As  predicted  here,  Citizens Against UFO 

      Secrecy  (CAUS)  has published the most definitive expose' to date on 

      the mysterious MJ-12 documents.

      

      

      According to CAUS, the documents are a hoax.

      

      

      In  the  September  issue  of  the organization's journal JUST CAUSE,  

      editor  Barry  Greenwood  enumerates several points which, taken as a 

      whole,  fairly  conclusively show the documents to be fraudulent. The 

      most  impressive  of  these  has to do with the Top Secret "Executive 

      Order,"  a  document  allegedly signed by then-President Harry Truman 

      authorizing  the formation of the Majestic-12 group. The document was 

      listed  as Attachment "A", "Executive Order #092447", in the Schedule 

      of  Attachments  to  the Hillenkoetter Briefing. The number, "092447" 

      is  not  an  authentic  Executive Order number, but rather represents 

      the  date the order was signed - 9/24/47. CAUS's research at the Tru-

      man  Library  shows  that no EOs were signed that day; that EO's 9891 

      thru  9896 all cover the period in question; that none are missing or 

      out of order; and that none have anything to do with MJ-12 or UFOs.

      

      

      Other  CAUS evidence includes points which have been covered by Para-

      Net,  Saucer  Smear  and  CSICOP, such as the apparent fraudulence of 

      the  Cutler  to  Twining  memo,  the irregular dating format, and the 

      seemingly  shoddy quality of research employed by the Moore-Shandera-

      Friedman  team  (MSF).  CAUS  also  takes  great exception to several 

      other,  ancillary  documents, released by MSF in April, such as a CIA 

      memo  and  a  briefing  paper on "Project Aquarius." They report that 

      MSF  began de-emphasizing these documents over the course of the sum-

      mer,  especially  after  CAUS  confronted William Moore with the evi-

      dence for their fraudulence.

      

      

      But  the  most significant portion of the CAUS newsletter (this issue 

      of  which  is devoted entirely to MJ-12) deals in a discussion of who 

      may  be behind the concoction. ParaNet readers may remember that in a 

      recent  issue  of  Saucer  Smear, Supreme Commander James Moseley an-

      nounced  that he had a "name" that he was investigating in connection 

      with  the Majestic-12 controversy, and that he would release it soon. 

      That  name,  supplied to him by ParaNet, was Col. Richard Doty, Spec-

      ial  Agent,  Air  Force Office of Special Investigations. CAUS editor 

      Greenwood agrees with Moseley's, and our, suspicions. In brief:

      

      

      -  TV  producer  Linda  Howe,  best known for her landmark expose' on 

      cattle  mutilation,  STRANGE  HARVEST,  was contacted by a government 

      source  in  1984 to "aid in producing a documentary, essentially pro-

      viding