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ment. LIVE! 42 REVELATIONS That sudden withdrawal of the dangling carrot had an extraordinary effect on HBO. Without the EBE section, said the executives in New York, there could be no documentary, and never mind that the initial script never mentioned the release of any such footage by the govern- Linda Howe's feeling was that she had been the victim of a neat "bait-and-switch" trick engineered by the Air Force to make sure that the same filmmaker who had created an excellent documentary on cattle mutilations (A Strange Harvest) did not focus the sharp eye of her camera on the UFO phenomenon for a national television audience. COVER-UP: It was in 1988, at the peak of all the excitement about MJ-12, that Richard Doty, other shadowy figures, and the Hollywood crowd got into the act again. Seligman Productions bought from Bill Moore an inter- view with two alleged "members of the intelligence community" who used various bird names such as Falcon and Condor as code words. Other television production companies, including all three networks, had reportedly turned the film down because, as any film producer will tell you, anybody can go out, hire a bunch of actors, put them behind a screen, disguise their voices and make them say incredible things about aliens from outer space. Since neither Falcon nor Condor nor other feathery members of what Bill Moore called his "Aviary" were willing to speak on the record, their testimony had no value as evidence in journalistic terms, not to mention scientific standards. They could not speak on the record, Moore explained, because their government employers would surely retaliate. They would be fired or even assassinated, he insisted, using a tired argument that still finds favor among the zealots who fail to understand that the best way for a whistleblower not to suffer retaliation would be to speak on the record in the most reputable medium available. The community of UFO amateurs and believers watched the show