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Speaker 1: On December eleventh, nineteen eighty four, a package arrived at
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Jamie Shanderay's Hollywood office. No return address, no note, just
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a roll of thirty five millimeter film. Shandarat was a
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film producer working on the UFO documentary with researcher Bill Moore.
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Moore had written The Roswell Incident in nineteen before his
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book Nobody knew the real story of Roswell. He had sources,
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military contacts, people who leaked information, but nothing like this.
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Chanderey called more. Within an hour, they were in Chanderray's bathroom.
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Speaker 3: This story took a weird chain.
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Speaker 1: He used his bathroom as a dark room h for
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developing photographs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, we're back on track.
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Speaker 1: Under the eerie red light, the first image appeared. They
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didn't know what to expect. They certainly didn't expect to
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see the presidential seal magic Field Feet is Wrong episode
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linked down in Milshoe. There were a total of eight photos,
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all documents. The first page was labeled top secret magic
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eyes only. This was a security classification they'd never seen before,
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supposedly two levels above top secret. The formatting was perfect,
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The typeface matched nineteen fifties government standards. The terminology was right,
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the dates were right, and the names those were definitely right.
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Twelve names a committee tasked with managing the most sensitive
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secret in American history, Operation Majestic twelve. Moore recognized every
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name on the list, military leaders, intelligence officers, scientists, but
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the last name was most interesting, Doctor Jerome Hunseger. Hunziker
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had died two months ago. He was the last survivor
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of the original Majestic twelve. The timing wasn't a coincidence.
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Someone waited until the last man was dead. After almost
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forty years of secrecy. Somebody wanted this exposed. Moore had
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literally written the book on Roswell, but his information was
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second hand accounts and local legends. He had no hard
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evidence until now. The eight pages told an explosive story
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a UFO crash in Roswell, recovery operations, advanced technology, and
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alien bodies. The documents proved that the US government covered
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it up, and they proved oswell was only at the beginning.
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Jamie Chanderrey and Bill Moore held proof of the biggest
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cover up in history. The documents detailed a secret committee
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called Majestic twelve, but the real shock was why the
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committee was formed. The main document was a briefing for
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President elect Eisenhower November eighteenth, nineteen fifty two, the subject
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line briefing document Operation Majestic twelve, prepared for President elect
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Eisenhower eyes only. On September twenty fourth, nineteen forty seven,
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Truman signed Executive Order zero nine two four four seven.
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It created a special Committee to handle all aspects of
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extraterrestrial interaction. Twelve members scientists, military leaders, intelligence officers, all
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with the highest security clearances, all sworn to absolute secrecy.
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The committee had three purposes. Study, recover technology, developed strategies
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for future contact, and most importantly, keep the entire operation
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hidden from the public. The committee was a response to
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events that began in June nineteen forty seven.
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Speaker 5: On twenty four June nineteen forty seven, a civilian pilot
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flying over the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington
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observed nine flying disc shape aircraft traveling in formation at
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a high rate of speed. Although this was not the
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first known sighting of such objects, it was the first
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to gain widespread attention in the public.
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Speaker 1: Media, though they denied it at the time, the military
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had been seeing a lot of these objects.
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Speaker 5: Hundreds of reports of sightings of similar objects followed. Many
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of these came from highly credible military and civilian sources.
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These reports resulted in independent efforts by several different elements
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of the military to add ascertained the nature and purpose
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of these objects in the interests of national defense.
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Speaker 1: Witness statements were confusing. Nobody knew what these things were. Then,
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on July seventh, nineteen forty seven, an object crashed in
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the New Mexico Desert. The official story it was a
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weather balloon that was a lie. The briefing described a
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craft of unknown origin, metallic disc shaped about thirty feet wide,
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no visible scenes or rivets, no visible propultion system made
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from a metal alloy they couldn't recognize. The report confirmed
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this was engineering beyond any country on Earth, but the
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craft was empty. But that changed a week later when
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they found four bodies.
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Speaker 5: Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human like beings had
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apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded.
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These had fallen to earth about two miles east of
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the wreckage site.
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Speaker 1: Four bodies about four feet tall, humanoid but definitely not human,
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large heads, no hair, gray skin. Three died on impact.
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The fourth survived the crash but died shortly after the
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military moved fast and created the infamous cover story.
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Speaker 5: A special scientific team took charge of removing these bodies
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for study Sea Attachment C. The wreckage of the craft
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was also removed to several different locations Sea Attachment B.
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Civilian and military witnesses in the area were debriefed, and
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news reporters were given the effective cover story that the
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object had been a misguided weather research balloon.
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Speaker 1: The scientific team, led by doctor Detma Bronc, called the
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beings extraterrestrial biological entities EBS and roswell wasn't an isolated incident.
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The briefing detailed a second crash.
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Speaker 5: On sixty nineteen fifty, a second object, probably of similar origin,
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impacted the Earth at high speed in the El Indio
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Cardaro area of the Texas Mexican border. After following a
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long trajectory through the atmosphere.
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Speaker 1: The object was almost completely destroyed on impact. What remained
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went to the Atomic Energy Commission facility at Sandia, New Mexico.
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The briefing included the names of all living MJ twelve members,
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powerful figures in the military, scientific and intelligence communities, but
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one name seemed out of place. Doctor Donald Menzel America's
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most famous UFO skeptic, a man who spent his career
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explaining away every sighting as weather, balloons, swamp gas, or
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natural phenomenon. Having the country's biggest UFO debunker on the
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original committee proved that Operation Majestic twelve wasn't about discovery,
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it was about deception. The MJ twelve documents described to
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crash UFO and four alien bodies. But the most shocking
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part was of the crash, it was the cover up.
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One name on the committee proved the operation was designed
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to deceive the public from the very beginning. The roster
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of Majestic twelve reads like a who's who of the
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American deep state. Let's go through the names. Admiral Roscoe
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Hillencoder Naval Intelligence, first Director of the CIA designated MJ one,
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reported directly to the President. Admiral Sidney Sowers, Naval Intelligence,
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First Director of Central Intelligence later Executive Secretary of the
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National Security Council. General Hoyt Vandenberg, chief of Staff of
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the Air Force Oversaw Air Force Intelligence, became the second
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Director of Central Intelligence. General Nathan Twining, chief of Staff
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of the Air Force, Commander of the Roswell Operation. He
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wrote a famous memo in nineteen forty seven saying UFOs
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were real. From his reports came Project Sign, Project Grudge,
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and Project Bluebook. Secretary James Forrestaff first Secretary of Defense,
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Former Secretary of the Navy. General Robert Montague, commander of
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Sandia Bay in Albuquerque, which created nuclear weapons. Captain Gordon Gray,
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national security advisor under Eisenhower, Secretary of the Army, helped
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manage nuclear weapons policy. Then the scientists, Doctor van Var Bush,
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head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during
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World War II, architect of the Manhattan Project. Doctor det
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Lev Bronc biophysicist, future president of the National Academy of Sciences,
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specialized in aviation medicine, in charge of non human biological entities.
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Doctor Lloyd Bergner, physicist and engineer specializing in radio atmospheric
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studies and space science. Doctor Jerome Hunsker, aeronautical engineer, Chairman
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of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which became NASA.
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These were the men who built America's nuclear secrets. But
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among them was one name that didn't fit. Doctor Donald Menzel.
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Menzel was a respected Harvard astronomer. He was also America's
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most famous most vocal UFO debunker. He wrote books explaining
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away every sighting is weather, balloons, swamp gas, mirages, all
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kinds of natural phenomena. Having such a well known skeptic
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on a UFO committee made no sense unless his public
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role was a cover story. Dig a little deeper and
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you realize Menzel was living a double life. He had
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a thirty year association with the NSA. He had top
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secret ultra clearance with the CIA.
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Speaker 2: Cap Secret Ultra clearance, What's Next, super Group of Premium platinum,
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Pinky Square clearance.
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Speaker 1: Between nineteen forty seven and nineteen forty eight, right after
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the crash, Menzel made several trips to New Mexico, all
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paid for by the US government. In public, Menzel was
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a skeptic. In private, he was an asset. Harvard University
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has been taking photographs of the sky since eighteen eighty two.
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The images are stored on photographic plates. By nineteen fifty two,
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Harvard had five hundred thousand plates. Many contained images that
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would be inconvenient for the government, so they had to
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be destroyed.
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Speaker 6: One third of the plate collection destroyed by the new
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incoming director of the Harvard Observatory, and that man was
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do you give his name or shall I?
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Speaker 7: I think you should do it.
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Speaker 6: Excuse that man is doctor Donald Menzel.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Menzel destroyed one hundred and fifty thousand priceless photographic
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plates images of Mars, the Moon, the entire sky. Not
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only that, he prevented Harvard from taking any additional photographs
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during his tenure fifteen years.
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Speaker 6: So Menzil comes in in September October nineteen fifty two,
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but began destroying a certain amount of this priceless collection
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of astronomical data. And also he prevented Harvard from collecting
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new astronomical data for a certain number of years. And
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this is known among your colleagues as the Menzel gap.
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Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: Yes, the survey that was there, like the Old Sky survey,
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was halted for fifteen years.
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Speaker 2: I was so following the science means destroying evidence. Eh
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that He's a lot of that gone around the SKASE.
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But Menzel wasn't the only member with a complicated story.
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James Forrestall was openly critical of government corruption and lack
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of transparency. A man with a conscience is and suited
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for a seat at the most secret table in the world.
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For MJ twelve Forstall was a problem. To solve it,
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all they needed was a little gravity.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, James Vincent Forrestall didn't come from old money or privilege.
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He clawed his way up from newspaper reporter to Wall
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Street millionaire. By age forty, he was president of the
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powerhouse investment firm Dylan Reading Company. When World War Two
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broke out, he walked away from five Finance the Service Country.
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Roosevelt made him Under Secretary of the Navy, then Secretary
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of the Navy, and finally First Secretary of Defense. Forestall
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oversaw the transition from wartime America into the Cold War superpower.
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His rags to richest story was the American dream, but
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he was the nightmare for the Washington establishment. Forestall was
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openly critical of Truman's policies nuclear disarmament, joining NATO. Forestall
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argued that recognizing the new state of Israel too soon
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would inflame the Arab world, threatening US oil. Security. Critics
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accused Forestall of being anti Semitic, but the record shows
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his arguments were strategic, not religious or ethnic. He wanted
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Israel to be under UN control until tempers in the
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region cooled down. He also believed America was being hollowed
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out from within. He warned that communists had infiltrated the government,
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the media, and the military. While the US was disarming
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Moscow was embedding agents at the highest levels of American life.
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Speaker 3: He was right about debt.
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Speaker 1: He was Congressional hearings would later prove that sovietspir rings
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really had penetrated Washington. But when Forrestall said it, he
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was branded paranoid. It was a media smear campaign. Journalists
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who once praised him painted him as unstable. Communists accused
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him of imagining reds under every bed. Cartoonists mocked him
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as a wild eyed conspiracy theorist. Inside the White House,
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Truman's circle spread the idea that Forrestall was cracking under pressure.
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They circulated rumors about his drinking, about his memory. But
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Forrestall wasn't drunk or senile. He was filling thousands of
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pages in his diaries, working fifteen hour days. He was independent, wealthy,
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and wasn't afraid to speak truth to power. Forestall couldn't
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be controlled. That made him dangerous. By March nineteen forty nine,
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the pressure campaign worked. Forrestall was forced to resign as
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Secretary of Defense. Within days, he was checked into Bethesda
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Naval Hospital for Rest, but that rest looked more like confinement.
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Visitors were restricted. His priest tried seven times to see him,
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blocked every time. His brother Henry begged to bring him home.
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Even Forrestall wrote letters saying he was fine and wanted
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to leave, the Navy kept him inside. Seven weeks later,
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he was dead. At one fifty am on May twenty second,
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nineteen forty nine, a nurse heard a crash outside. Forestall's
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body was found on a third floor ledge, thirteen stories
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below his window. The belt of his bathrobe was tied
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around his neck. The hospital declared a suicide within hours,
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no autopsy, no investigation. The coroner rubber stamped the report
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without inspecting the body. Reporters were told Forrestall had been
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copying lines from a tragic play as a suicide note,
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but the lines were unfinished mid sentence, as if he
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was interrupted. Yeah, let me guess the video wasn't working
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at night. They didn't have video back then, Niah like me.
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Speaker 3: Still.
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Speaker 1: Forestall's brother Henry called it murder. Navy officials ordered personnel
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to stay silent. They even classified the number of windows
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in his room as top secret. Forestall's diaries were seized immediately,
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thousands of pages of meetings, conversations, personal reflections. When they
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were finally released two years later, entire sections were missing.
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His family believed the censored passages contained secrets that powerful
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people wanted buried. Instead, Forestall was buried.
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Speaker 3: And used to be Seems to repeat itself, don't.
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Speaker 1: It it does? Some believe Forrestall was going to go
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public about UFOs. He felt Americans deserve to know the
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truth about extraterrestrial contact, but the message was clear. Silence
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wasn't optional. For years, the trail stayed cold. Then a
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postcard arrived from New Zealand with a return address in
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Ethiopia with James It was Forrest All dead. The MJ
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twelve secret was saved for years, but in early nineteen
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eighty five, a mysterious postcard arrived at Bill Moore's home,
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about to blow the case wide open. The postmark was
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from New Zealand, the return address was from a post
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office box in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Moore didn't know anyone
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in New Zealand or Ethiopia.
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Speaker 2: Oh well, well, well, I hope they paid Protos product placements.
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Speaker 1: In his video, the message on the card was a riddle. Yeah,
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that makes my sense. Someone was following the investigation and
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knew it had stalled. More called Jamie Shanderray and their
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new teammate, nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman. Friedman had worked on
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classified nuclear aircraft programs for companies like General Electric. He
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approached the documents like a scientist and helped them crack
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the code. They worked backwards for a stylish look shop
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suit Land. Suitland wasn't a clothing store. It was Suitland, Maryland,
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home of the National Archives, that unlocked the other clue
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ma Reese's pieces. At first, they thought it had something
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to do with extraterrestrials. After all, they were ET's favorite candy.
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But Friedman knew and ed Reis, who worked at the
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National Archives in the Military Records branch, Reese's pieces weren't candy.
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They were documents. The postcard was telling them exactly where
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to go and who to see. Three days later, Moore
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and Chanderret were in the massive Archives building in Suitland.
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They were still facing millions of documents with no idea
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where to start. Then Moore looked at the postcard again,
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the return address Pobox one eight nine, Box one eighty nine.
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Chanderrey approached the reference desk. They were looking for Box
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one eighty nine Record Group three forty one Air Force records.
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The Archives checked the computer. The box had last been
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accessed in September nineteen eighty four, just two weeks after
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Jerome Hunsiker's death, about the same time shander I received
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the Majestic twelve documents. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: See, it is just like some UFO scavenger hunt, like
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Midnight Madness Fagabefy, I.
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Speaker 1: Know the movie. Do you want to know what they
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found in the box?
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Speaker 3: What's in it box?
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Speaker 8: Ye?
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Speaker 3: I'm done?
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Speaker 2: Don really really seriously, what's in it box? In Sagabefy.
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Speaker 1: Inside were dozens of folders filled with routine Air Force
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business from the nineteen fifties. Then Shanderi found it. A
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single sheet of paper tucked between budget reports. The header
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read top Secret Restricted Information. A memorandum from General Twining,
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signed by Robert Cutler, President Eisenhower's special assistant.
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Speaker 5: The President has decided that the MJ twelve SSP briefing
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should take place during the already scheduled White House meeting
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of July sixteen.
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Speaker 1: This was it the Smoking Gun, an official government docum
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referencing MJ twelve filed in the National Archives. It was
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the final piece they needed to solve the Majestic twelfth puzzle.
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But more, Shandaray and Friedman weren't exposing a secret government program.
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They were being manipulated by one more. Schanderet and Friedman
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thought they had found their smoking gun. The Couple of
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Twining memo seemed to be the proof they needed, but
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they didn't realize they were pawns in a much larger game.
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The clue was on that first envelope that contained the film.
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It was postmarked Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kirtland Air Force Base
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is in Albuquerque. That's where the game was being played,
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and the man in charge was Richard Doty. Dotie was
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a special agent for AFOSI, the Air Force Office of
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Special Investigations. His job was to spread disinformation in the
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UFO community, and he was very good at it.
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Speaker 9: I was always connected to UFOs and to disinformation. Although
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in actuality within the government, we don't call it disinformation.
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Speaker 1: We call it deception operations. Dotie's most notorious target was
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physicist Paul Benowitz. Benowitz believed he was intercepting alien communications
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near Kirtland. Instead of dismissing him, Doty fed him false
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documents and encouraged his theories. Eventually, Paul Benowitz had a
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complete mental breakdown. We did a whole episode on this
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a couple of years ago, linked even.
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Speaker 3: His flight chip.
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Speaker 10: We don't want him to go out to the public,
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go on camera and say, hey, I just tapped into
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a secret laser on Kurland Air Force Base. Obviously we
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can't have that happen. So all I had to do
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was say, well, you don't want Paul, maybe what you
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did see was UFOs.
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Speaker 1: Dodie wasn't just targeting civilians. He also manipulated Emmy winning
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documentary filmmaker Linda molten Howe. She was working on a
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UFO special for HBO. DOTI promised her footage of crashed
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UFOs and alien bodies.
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Speaker 9: She also had contacts within the government. We wanted to
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know who those contacts were, so we set up an operation.
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We didn't I didn't the government did, where I would
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bring she was coming to Albuquerque, New Mexico. So everything
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was set up for me to contact or bring her
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in to the OSI office. I showed her a document
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that came from headquarters and try to convince her to
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work for us.
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Speaker 1: This was a specific government operation designed to prevent free speech.
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The goal was to stop the HBO documentary and if
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they destroyed Linda's reputation in the process, even.
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Speaker 8: Better, I'm going to do this HBO documentary. I just
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she was trying to confirm all the informations what it
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sounded like. So you were tasked with basically putting the
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cabash on that documentary.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, that was operation Kensaw. I interviewed her and you know,
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shoulder of the documents and so forth, providing her with
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something that was detrimental to HBO and other was I
26:08
agent provided her with small.
26:10
Speaker 8: Film clips whether real or fake.
26:12
Speaker 11: It was it was freak. It discredited her and therefore
26:16
they she lost that.
26:17
Speaker 1: Contract, the project was canceled, and Linda's reputation as a
26:22
mainstream filmmaker was damaged. This was how the game was played.
26:26
Promise evidence, build trust, then pulled the rugout.
26:30
Speaker 7: They're working for my government. They're working in agencies of
26:36
the government. That is supposed to be protecting of the people,
26:40
by the people, for the people. How did it all
26:45
turn upside down?
26:47
Speaker 2: A HBO cancel the show because of Dody Yep, yeah,
26:51
I wish Doty was around for the last season A
26:53
Game of Drones.
26:55
Speaker 1: In June nineteen eighty nine, the UFO community gathered in
26:58
Las Vegas for the annual Muffon Conference. Bill Moore was
27:01
scheduled to speak. Moore was now a hero for his
27:04
work on the MJ twelve documents. The room was packed.
27:07
The last thing anyone expected to hear was a confession
27:11
Bill Moore, maybe the most trusted UFO researcher in the world,
27:15
was a government asset. As handler was Richard Doty. They
27:19
had an arrangement Dotie would provide more with confidential information
27:22
about UFOs, Moore would report on the activities of people
27:26
like Paul Benowitz and others in the UFO community.
27:30
Speaker 12: And it was Richard Doty, then with AFOSI at Kirkland
27:34
Air Force Base, who soon came into play as the
27:36
middleman in that process. Shortly thereafter, it became apparent to
27:43
me that my supplying information to the government through Doty
27:48
on the activities of Paul Benowitz appro and to a
27:53
lesser extent several other individuals, was to be a part
27:57
of this equation.
28:00
Speaker 1: Only did more spread government disinformation, but he would also
28:03
report back on how well the lies performed.
28:07
Speaker 12: The entire story of a secret treaty between the US
28:11
government and the aliens, of exchanges of technology between US
28:15
and the aliens, of battles between aliens and American armed forces,
28:20
and of aliens allegedly having implanted hundreds of thousands, if
28:23
not millions, of human beings that for the purpose of
28:26
taking over the world and using us as cattle or
28:30
slaves came about as a result of the disinformation process.
28:37
I know because I was in a position to observe
28:41
much of this process as it unfolded, and I was
28:44
providing regular reports on its effectiveness to some of the
28:49
very people who were doing it.
28:50
Speaker 10: To Paul, I recruited Bill Moore. I recruited him to
28:56
be a spy within.
28:58
Speaker 5: The UFO community.
29:00
Speaker 1: The room erupted. Researchers who trusted him felt betrayed. The
29:04
man who brought the MJ twelve documents to the world
29:07
had just admitted he was a government operative. His career
29:10
was over. He was booed off the stage. Moore's confession
29:13
cast a shadow over everything. Were the MJ documents just
29:17
another part of the game, a sophisticated piece of disinformation.
29:22
Speaker 10: Regarding the MJ twelve documents that we released to Jamie Schindeer,
29:25
Bill Moore had absolutely nothing to do with that. We coordinated,
29:29
had the liaison.
29:30
Speaker 9: With him, but all these other copies spread out around.
29:34
Of course, the Internet wasn't in existence back then, but
29:38
and that's how the MJ took twelve documents. I would
29:41
say that some of the information was factual and a
29:45
lot of it wasn't.
29:46
Speaker 10: There were some investigations conducted by FBI SOSI regarding the
29:53
MJA twelve documents, extensive investigations just to determine whether these
29:58
things were legitimate, they contained classified information, and then who
30:03
released them. So the names of the members of the
30:07
m J twelve group we're not officially known to us.
30:12
A lot of the information, not all the particular details,
30:16
but a lot of the information is factual.
30:18
Speaker 11: Who's controlling the release of information? There's a group out
30:22
there that that is.
30:24
Speaker 9: I can guarantee you that there is now m J
30:27
twelve documents entirely different. Those things surfaced through a guy
30:34
by the name of Jamie Schandeira. He got them. I'm
30:39
sure that all those convinced that that was part of
30:44
another operation.
30:45
Speaker 11: The MJ twelve are they? Are they MJ twelve? Where
30:49
did they come from? Who makes up the MJ twelve?
30:53
What's their names? Today? As a Zodiac or.
30:58
Speaker 10: Zenith group or Aeen eighty seven. I was investigated by
31:03
the FBI for the MJ twelve documents. They claimed the
31:07
UFO researchers claimed, I released them, I created them, and
31:11
we also wanted to form an alliance with the MJ
31:17
twelve group, working either alongside them or working with them.
31:23
I have no connections official connections with the United States
31:28
government or intelligence community. And those documents were created based
31:32
on actual documents. So you have to give them a
31:35
little bit of real information before you throw in the disinformation,
31:42
and then you add more and more and more, and
31:47
that person opens their mind up and says, you know what,
31:50
I think, this is all real.
31:54
Speaker 1: Everything about MJ twelve was now thrown into doubt. The
31:57
documents were scrutinized, Believers became skeptics. The story was pushed
32:01
to the fringe, but in nineteen ninety four, another Majestic
32:05
twelfth document was found, and this was so detailed it
32:08
was almost impossible to deny. William Moore's confession had shattered
32:20
the UFO community. The MJA twelve documents, once seen as
32:23
the holy Grail, were now tainted by disinformation, and Richard
32:27
Doty's fingerprints were all over Jah.
32:29
Speaker 3: His fingerprints really taint stop that.
32:32
Speaker 1: Researchers were divided. Then, in nineteen ninety four, ten years
32:36
after the first package arrived, another roll of film was sent.
32:40
This time the recipient was Don Berliner, a respected aviation journalist.
32:44
The film wasn't a memo or a briefing, it was
32:47
a field guide. The cover read Majestic twelve Group Special
32:51
Operations Manual with the subtitle Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology Recovery
32:57
and Disposal. It was dated in April nineteen five fifty
33:00
four and marked top secret magic Eyes only for researchers.
33:05
This was the Resetta Stone, a step by step guide
33:08
for managing an alien presence on Earth. The level of
33:11
detail was staggering. It provided instructions for establishing a secure
33:15
perimeter around a crash site in outlin protocols for handling
33:19
various types of alien technology.
33:22
Speaker 4: Craft are to be approached with extreme caution if they
33:24
appear functional, as serious injury may result from exposure to
33:28
radiation and electrical discharges. If the craft is functioning but
33:32
appears to be abandoned, it may be approached only by
33:36
specially trained MJ twelve Red Team personnel wearing protective clothing.
33:42
Complete craft and parts of crafts too large to be
33:44
transported by covered transport will be disassembled. If they must
33:48
be transported whole or on open flatbed trailers, they will
33:52
be covered in such a manner as to camouflage their shape.
33:57
Speaker 1: The guide specified packaging and shipping procedures, press blackouts, how
34:01
to issue deceptive statements to the media, how to discredit witnesses,
34:05
and communication protocols to follow if live contact was established.
34:11
Speaker 4: In dealing with any living, extraterrestrial biological entity, security is
34:15
of paramount importance. All other considerations are secondary. Although it
34:20
is preferable to maintain the physical well being of any entity,
34:23
the loss of EB life is considered acceptable. If conditions
34:27
or delays to preserve that life in any way compromises
34:30
the security of the operations, remains will be preserved against
34:34
further decomposition as equipment and conditions permit. Cadavers and remains
34:40
will be bagged or securely wrapped in waterproof coverings. Remains
34:44
will be refrigerated or packed with ice, if available.
34:49
Speaker 1: The manual described four types of alien craft in precise detail.
34:53
Discs between fifty and three hundred feet wide, cigar shaped
34:56
vessels over two thousand feet long, cone and try angle
35:00
shaped craft. It also categorized two different types of ebes.
35:04
Type one entities were humanoid, about five feet tall with
35:08
pale yellow skin. Type two were three to four feet tall,
35:11
with large elongated heads with big slanted eyes that were
35:14
pure black, pale skin, three long fingers, and a thumb.
35:18
We know them as the graves.
35:22
Speaker 4: It is not definitely known where either type of creature originates,
35:26
but it seems certain that they did not evolve on Earth.
35:30
It is further evident, although not certain, that they may
35:33
have originated on two different planets.
35:37
Speaker 1: The manual was clinical and professional, exactly what you'd expect
35:40
from a military field guide. It answered every question critics
35:43
raised about earlier MJ twelve documents, almost as if someone
35:47
was paying attention and responding to skeptics, and maybe somebody was.
35:51
Page two identified the source of the document Kirtland Air
35:55
Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, headquarters of OSI agent Richard Dodi.
36:11
Researchers found what looked like top secret documents proving a
36:14
UFO cover up. They followed a paper trail to a
36:17
smoking gun in the National Archives, but the investigation collapsed
36:21
when one of their own confess to being a government
36:23
disinformation agent. But are the Majestic twelve documents real? Well,
36:27
let's break it down. The case for a hoax is overwhelming.
36:31
William Moore, the man at the center of the discovery,
36:33
publicly admitted to working with Air Force intelligence to spread disinformation.
36:37
The documents were mailed to him and Jamie Shanderay with
36:40
no chain of custody. Later, they found the Cutler Twining
36:43
Memo in the National Archives. Skeptics say they planted it there,
36:47
which I believe they did. The documents themselves are full
36:50
of problems. The color Twining Memo was signed by Robert
36:53
Cutler on a date he wasn't in the country. Other
36:56
documents use a strange date format that isn't used by
36:58
the military or civilian, like putting zero six instead of
37:02
just six for the day of the month. The typefaces
37:04
are a little wrong for the early nineteen fifties. There
37:07
are formatting errors, misspellings, and terminology problems, like using the
37:11
word media instead of the press, which was much more common.
37:15
There are references to buildings that didn't exist yet. The
37:18
documents were missing proper top secret control numbers. President Truman's
37:21
signature was obviously copied from another document, So is it
37:25
a hoax? Well, not so fast. The film containing the
37:29
Special Operations Manual was authenticated as nineteen fifties era tri
37:34
x stock. Forensic analysis of the typography showed a raised
37:38
letter Z. This was an artifact of a nineteen fifty
37:41
four hot lead printing press. That's a nice detail. The
37:45
language is correct, terms like craft tape instead of duct tape,
37:49
and the official nineteen fifties postal abbreviation for New Mexico
37:53
n do nex. It was perfect almost The font and
37:58
use of bold section had aren't consistent with DoD Field manuals.
38:02
It refers to Area fifty one. Area fifty one wasn't
38:05
publicly acknowledged until twenty thirteen. Besides, the military didn't call
38:09
it Area fifty one. That was a CIA designation. The
38:12
manual outlines procedures for satellite recovery. But this is supposed
38:16
to be from nineteen fifty four. Sputnik wasn't launched until
38:19
nineteen fifty seven, and it caught America by surprise. Still,
38:24
there are coincidences that are hard to dismiss. President Truman
38:27
really did meet with Bush and Forrestall on the exact
38:30
day the MJ twelve order was supposedly signed. General Twining's
38:34
flight logs really due place in in New Mexico right
38:37
after the crash, and doctor Manzel really did have top
38:40
secret ultra clearance with the CIA. So what's going on?
38:43
Are the documents fake or real? Well, the answer is yes.
38:50
All roads lead back to Kirtland Air Force Base, the
38:53
Office of Special Investigations, and Richard Dody. This wasn't a
38:57
random hoax. It was a coordinated psychological operation. The goal
39:01
was to fool the public and control the researchers by
39:04
feeding them a mix of fake and real information. They
39:06
waste time following false leads, they waste time studying fictional details,
39:11
and they waste time arguing with each other about who
39:14
was or wasn't an intelligence asset. If anyone got too
39:17
close to an actual secret, the intelligence community would steer
39:20
the narrative and discredit them. Smear campaigns were effective.
39:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, pushing people out of windows recks two.
39:26
Speaker 1: But sure it does. I think the truth about Majestic
39:29
twelve is more mundane. The documents were designed to confuse
39:32
researchers while the military tested special equipment and operated black
39:36
projects in the desert. Are they testing reverse engineered alien craft? Probably,
39:42
though it's probably not what we think. Do I believe
39:45
an organization operating outside the government is controlling the UFO narrative? Absolutely?
39:50
Speaker 4: I do.
39:51
Speaker 1: This rabbit hole goes even deeper, which is why this
39:54
is only volume one of a series of Majestic twelve episodes.
39:57
The documents are forgeries, really good forgeries. Doties become the
40:02
face of UFO disinformation. But here was just one small
40:05
piece of a very large, very well funded machine. Dotie
40:09
himself said the documents weren't real, but a lot of
40:12
the information in them is. He's careful about how he
40:15
words that. The real conspiracy is that the techniques perfected
40:18
on UFO researchers in the nineteen eighties are now being
40:21
used in all of us every single day. Are the
40:25
current whistleblowers telling the truth? I doubt it. I don't
40:28
trust people from Air Force Intelligence with active security clearances
40:32
giving statements approved by the Pentagon, all while getting paid
40:35
by the US government. And I become really skeptical. When
40:39
you release a book is always a book. But I
40:42
could be wrong. When I publicly denounced the whistleblowers, half
40:45
my audience cheers and the other half booze. Where divided.
40:48
As I'm writing this, people are debating whether the tic
40:51
tac UFO is a lock key project. They're divided and distracted,
40:55
and that's the point. The weaponization of truth didn't end
40:58
with Majestic twelve. That's when it began. It was a
41:02
field test in an age of social media and information warfare.
41:06
We are all Paul Benowitz now, we're constantly targeted, manipulated,
41:10
and fed a version of reality designed to keep us
41:13
confused and divided. But don't let them win. We'll only
41:17
learn the truth when we're focused and united. We have
41:19
to apply pressure on our elected officials. We need them
41:23
to be afraid. We need them to know that if
41:25
you lie to us, you're fired. Also, if you do nothing,
41:28
you're fired. Every election cycle, we need to hold them accountable.
41:33
If they fail, we go to the ballot box and
41:35
drop a hammer on it. Then we bring in somebody
41:37
else to get the job done. If they fail, drop
41:40
the hammer again and again and again. We need to
41:43
be as relentless as they are. We're outgunned. They have
41:46
all the tools of the state at their disposal. All
41:49
we have is a hammer. But you know what they
41:51
say when all you have is a hammer. Well, when
41:53
I look at Capitol Hill, I see a whole bunch
41:56
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