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234 REVELATIONS topic have caused the pompous leaders of this strange discipline to regard me as the proverbial skunk spoiling their neat extraterrestrial garden party. I can sympathize with their position. The deal is too good for them to ponder over little details and inconsistencies. Never mind the sleaze factor, for instance. It would indeed be tasteless to check the back- ground of our informants. The fact that all their training, all their alleged documents—from MJ-12 to Grudge Report 13—all their vaunted references come directly from the lie, steal, and cheat depart- ment of the most disreputable part of the military establishment should not give us pause for thought. True, these are the same folks who, in an earlier era, brought us the horrors of mind control, Cointelpro and MK-Ultra, Watergate, and Iran-Contra. They remind us of the psycho- logical warfare experts who sat on the board of NICAP and spied on civilian UFO research groups. They still do, according to researcher Bill Moore, and by the way, who was paying him to do it? With money from what project? But it is too easy, too convenient, too slick, to blame a few individuals like Bill Moore for the whole mess. Someone, higher up, was giving all the assignments. Who authorized it? Such important questions are never asked because we forgive easily, always ready to be fooled one more time, ready to set aside those painstaking standards of research that can only slow us down as we reach for the shiny prize. In recent years, standing in the UFO community has become conditioned by alleged access to confidential information. No ufologist dares to raise any question about such material for fear of being cut off from the fascinating secret sources that disseminate it. Another aspect many researchers of this field—with a few coura- geous and notable exceptions—have studiously ignored, is the link be- tween the more eager proponents of imminent extraterrestrial contact and the American extreme right. When I first called attention to this uncanny linkage in Messengers of Deception, the evidence I brought to light was hotly rejected by the UFO believers. In the last fifteen years not only has Messengers been vindicated, but many more disquieting parallels have been revealed, involving cases as varied as Billy Meier's Pleiades hoax and the Dulce papers.