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and for all. FORCE BASE, 1983 tion. 40 REVELATIONS ments. Yet our mystery source selected a group that was likely to accept the information uncritically, people who had already staked a definitive position on the alleged cover-up and would find it very conveniently confirmed by the documents. Predictably, he missed his objective of convincing the nation that MJ-12 was genuine: only a handful of hard- core believers have accepted Friedman's conclusions. This is not the way the Deep Throat of Watergate proceeded. He sought out the most influential of Washington media, selected two aggressive investigative journalists, and encouraged them to ask their own questions (his recom- mendation to "follow the money!" was a major key). The MJ-12 source operates as the manipulator of a contrived disinformation leak rather than as a real whistleblower with something at stake, or as the deeply concerned person who has decided to expose a genuine scandal once KIRTLAND AIR Early in 1983, Linda Howe, an independent television producer, was working on a script for a UFO documentary to be released by Home Box Office (HBO). A New York City attorney named Peter Gersten, who is a leader of a group called Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), arranged for Ms. Howe to interview Richard Doty, an agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque. She was told that agent Doty had information about a UFO landing at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota in 1978. A man named Jerry Miller, who knew Doty, was very involved in the investiga- The interview took place in New Mexico on April 9, 1983. Agent Doty, who was not in uniform, took Linda Howe into an office in an area of Kirtland Air Force Base that was secured by doors with digital locks, for which he knew the combinations. He sat on the edge of his desk and gave her a briefing paper, "at the suggestion of his superiors." He added that she could ask questions but could not make notes. The documents described four incidents of crashed disks that have