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STRIP TEASE eases. 109 which Jerez describes as "the heat field which surrounds the tissues." At the time the facility was closed down by the authorities, it was treating about two hundred patients with cancer or neurological dis- Dr. Somaiel Haron, president of the Canuelas Medical Society, expressed the general opinion of his colleagues that Jerez was a charla- tan. The opinion was also voiced by Dr. Pedro Agustin Elorga, who added, "These people go so far as to claim they are extraterrestrials, they have a flying saucer at the door." Indeed, speaking before a local student group, Jerez once stated that his staff was from Ganimedes and that they cured by use of radiation techniques brought from other planets. Ganimedes is a satellite of Jupiter which is very popular with South American contactees, some- what in the same manner as Venus or the Pleiades are popular with contactees in the United States. In one of his letters Jerez wrote, "In secret I have created in the world an intelligence service," a statement which led some investigators to assume that he might be the mysterious UMMO source. Jerez was last seen on April 15, 1979, at a meeting where he stated he was now living in Baradero, north of Buenos Aires, and was the director of a paper manufacturing company called Glucosa Argentina. There is no company by that name. In 1980 I traveled throughout Argentina for two weeks and I met with researchers from Buenos Aires who were pursuing the investigation of UMMO and its ramifications in Argentina in an effort to find the source of the hoax. They had succeeded in tracking down Jerez, who assured them that HONO was the "true name" of UMMO and that he had indeed created an "international network of scientists." I also spoke with Mrs. Bettina Allen who had been called by the police as an expert in the case. She observed five diagnoses performed by Jerez as a demonstration. He had failed in all five, missing a tumor that was known to exist in one of the volunteers who was an agent of the government. He also missed a serious spine condition in another volunteer, to whom he prescribed a spoonful of sulfuric acid every day. My friends in Argentina came to the conclusion that Jerez did not,