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informants in 1975 to withhold for three further years. Other equally important writings have followed in successive books entitled Sensual Meditation, Yes to Human Cloning, Geniocracy, and The Maitreya. To get a true and complete picture of his unprecedented revelations and insights it is important to read all of these books. In recounting this brief outline of Rael's story, I have not inserted any customary qualifying words such as ‘alleged’ or ‘reported’ which responsible journalists - and especially former foreign correspondents who have reported from Beijing and Berlin among other datelines - might rightly be expected to employ to distance themselves from any controversial or improbable information they are conveying. I've done this quite intentionally to underline my conviction that Rael is a man of high integrity describing genuine experiences in a sincere and totally truthful fashion. An international journalist such as I have been is of course accustomed to assessing the reliability or otherwise of those he quotes for information, even when sometimes concealing his confidant's identity behind a stock phrase like 'a usually well-informed source’ or ‘a usually reliable source’. In this regard, my estimation of Rael is that he is an eminently reliable witness to what he has experienced, fantastic though it often may seem. I think that he is indeed 'a uniquely well informed and reliable source’ and, after hearing him speak in public lectures over a period of thirteen years and after reviewing my own and other recorded broadcast interviews with him, it is my impression that perhaps even now he is saying less than everything he learned during those extraordinary, unsought meetings in the mid-1970s on this planet and beyond. More importantly perhaps, the profound logic and rationality of what he was told by his informants appear unassailable to me. I interviewed Rael twice in preparing an investigative radio documentary series for the BBC World Service entitled 'UFOs - Fact, Fiction or Fantasy?’ I also interviewed sane, responsible Frenchmen who met and decided to support him during the period immediately following his two extraordinary encounters in the 1970s. I have also come to know and respect as friends many other leading and rank- xiv INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS