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60 have little doubt that it is authentic." Similar testimonials to the apparent authenticity of the Eisenhower briefing paper have been received by Friedman from Truman administrative assistant David Stowe and from one-time National Security Council planning board member Robert R. Bowie. (The docu- ment appears in the Appendices.) (/n this book that page is pulled out) The date format in the middle of the cover sheet also got great attention: 18 November, 1952. Is it correct to have a comma between the month and the year, or is this evidence of fraud? Present government practice dictates no comma, but in the early 1950s there were many different date formats in use within the White House. Several like the one in question have been found on official presidential documents and related pa- pers whose authenticity has never been questioned. Only when computers and word processors came into common use did date format became consistent. Moreover, a sophisticated hoaxer would probably have used a more common style in order not to draw attention to the date format. The security classification: TOP SECRET/MAJIC National Security Information Eyes Only. Does it make sense? The only unfamiliar word is MAJIC, which can be assumed to be a code word that limits access to persons cleared specifically for infor- mation on this subject. This means that only those few individ- uals having a specific "need to know" about MJ-12 would be allowed to read it, rather than anyone cleared for top secret, which runs to many hundreds of thousands of employees of the military, other government agencies, and private contractors engaged in sensitive work. Regarding the writing style of the entire document: Does it fit other material known to have been written by Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who is identified on page two as the briefing officer? Actually, there is no reason it should, as there is no evidence that it was written personally by Hillenkoetter, who could easily have roughed it out and then given it to someone else for final writing. In that case, it would not have repre- sented the writing style of Hillenkoetter; yet it would be an accurate statement of his position. CRASH AT CORONA