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STRIP TEASE mansion. 107 It is noteworthy that, at the direction of the court, Dona Margarita and her husband were examined for one month in a psychiatric hospital at Carabanchel Bajo, Madrid, under the supervision of Dr. J. Valesco Escassi, who stated that "they were of perfect mental state and pre- sented no abnormalities of any sort." Even the butler was interrogated. Mr. Andres Gomes, butler of Dona Margarita for ten years, told journalists of the newspaper Levante (February 7, 1954) that her man- sion on Calle Mayor in Albacete was one of the oldest buildings in the city and had an underground area called Cuarto del Moro. It was "a horrible place, where one would go down through a metal trapdoor that could only take two people. She would spend many hours there. I don't know what she did there exactly, but she came up as pale as a corpse." The trapdoor was located in the bathroom of Dona Margarita, and Mr. Gomes assumes that there were other underground passages in the UMMO would claim fifteen years later that a connection existed between the strange animal dissections in Albacete and its alleged mission on earth. If the author of the documents was simply writing them as a joke, he may naturally have capitalized on an old scandal to weave some verifiable facts into his fabric of fantasy. The firsts UMMO document mentioning these episodes appeared in 1969, the year follow- ing the death of Dona Margarita, who was perhaps the only person who could have testified to the real state of affairs. The appeals to the CIA, carefully leaked to a Spanish UFO group, seem to have been added simply for theatrical effect. Similarly, the letter from Mr. Rumsey offering money in return for information is likely to be a part of the same hoax, like the letter from Mr. Dagousset offering money for one of the mysterious capsules found in Santa Monica. CANUELAS, ARGENTINA, 1979 The most curious and ominous part of the UMMO story has never been published before. It concerns, not the activities of the UMMO source