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the case. 174 REVELATIONS where they had a rendezvous with the rest of the group, then to Gulf Breeze, where they arrived on August 6. One of the objectives of their trip to Gulf Breeze was to find the Antichrist and kill him. Were they looking for Ed Walters? From Gulf Breeze the story goes that they intended to drive straight to New Mexico, although this version is almost certainly incorrect. I have heard other versions of their plans that hint at an even more elaborate mission. Beason told Johnson that war was about to erupt in the Middle East and that a shake-up of the U.S. military would soon take place. He knew it, he said, through psychic messages received by Vance A. Davis, twenty-five, of Wichita, Kansas, who was one of the men arrested with them. The other two deserters in the group were William N. Setter- berg, twenty, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Kris P. Perlock, twenty, of Hudson, Wisconsin. From Fort Benning the six deserters were quickly transferred to Fort Knox, and a remarkable series of events was set into motion. The Army simply cleared them in a routine espionage investigation, issued them general discharges, and turned them loose! Now their friend Anna Foster refuses to talk to anyone, and the newspapers, including super- market tabloids that might have been expected to display the whole story under screaming headlines, have mysteriously lost all interest in The curious ufologist, at this point, has the right to ask a few disturb- ing questions. For instance, how on earth did these soldiers know nearly one month in advance that war was about to erupt in the Middle East? What motivated the incredible leniency of the Army when it simply discharged six intelligence communications specialists who had been missing for a whole week? And how did these soldiers manage to elude the FBI and the Army for so long? How did they get back into the United States without being picked up by immigration officers, who surely must have had their names prominently highlighted on their computer lists at every port of entry? The whole saga reeks of collusion and manipulation at a high level. And the manipulation must have been engineered by someone exqui-