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Fifties. 166 REVELATIONS This is not just covering up—it is blatant perjury. One government research group, and possibly several, have been in operation since the In that context, anyone claiming to uncover the truth and to expose the cover-up finds a ready audience among UFO believers and the public at large. But a very curious thing happens. Those who claim to bring us these amazing revelations are generally linked to the military or to the intelli- gence community themselves. What they are exposing is not the real secret group, but an outer layer of outright lies and deceptions that were meant to be exposed in the first place. Not only was John Lear a pilot for a CIA-controlled airline, and Bill Cooper a Naval Intelligence man, but Bill English served as an information analyst at a listening post north of London. Bill Moore has admitted that he was an informant for the Air Force—and possibly for other agencies as well—and his main contact, Richard Doty, was trained in disinformation and in psychological warfare. By what magic trick did these men manage to convince so many sane UFO researchers, including some professional scientists, that there was a hangar full of flying saucers at Area 51 and a cave full of flesh-eating aliens under New Mexico? One would expect ufologists to be particu- larly suspicious of any unverifiable claim coming from such sources. The answer is sadly simple. Most ufologists are incredibly naive when it comes to the methods of intelligence. Even the scientists among them have never taken the trouble to learn the basic rules by which classified information is controlled, used, and released. And when a real expose comes to light, they refuse to look at it, unless it happens to match their preconceptions. In 1979 I published such a series of exposes in Messengers of Decep- tion. 1 pointed out that UFO author Major Keyhoe, who had written such informative books as The UFO Conspiracy in the Fifties, and created the NICAP organization to expose the Silent Group and to force the release of UFO information, was actually under the control of a board of directors replete with psychological warfare experts linked