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MAJESTIC 12 sender. 39 According to Friedman, this document could not have been planted in the National Archives because "it was in a classified box in a classified vault." This statement only makes sense if we assume that the individ- ual responsible for the planting did not have access to the classified box in question. If MJ-12 is an inside job, designed and executed by a rogue group within the intelligence community—which is the most likely explanation today—then Friedman's argument is obviously flawed. There are other reasons to believe that MJ-12 is a fake. Queried about this particular document, the Archives issued a memorandum, dated July 22, 1987, and signed by Jo Ann Williamson, Chief of the Military Reference Branch, pointing out that "this particular document poses problems" for many different reasons. It does not bear a top secret register number, an official government letterhead or a watermark; it is the only document referring to MJ-12 in the folder in question; a search for other relevant documents has located nothing; and the marking TOP SECRET RESTRICTED INFORMATION was not used during the Eisenhower administration (it only came into use at the National Security Council under Nixon). Furthermore, there are no records of an NSC meeting on July 16, 1954. Robert Cutler was visiting military installations in Europe and North Africa on the day he was supposed to have issued the memorandum. In other words, the National Archives does not believe the memoran- dum is genuine. This does not mean, of course, that some project called MJ-12 does not, or did not, exist. Nor does it resolve the larger issue of the possible existence of aliens, dead or alive. It only deepens the mystery and it raises new questions. Among the new questions is the identity and motivation of the If we are dealing with a genuine Deep Throat, why does he (or she) choose people like Shandera, Moore, and Friedman, who are obscure as tar as the national media are concerned? Why not select a well-known journalist, a reputable science writer, or an established, credible scien- tist? If he has decided to work exclusively with people in the UFO field, he still has a wide choice of targets, including some who have the ability to check up and convince themselves of the genuineness of such docu-