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44 REVELATIONS the security of the projects on which Falcon, Condor, and the other members of the Aviary claimed to work, would immediately find out who they were; they would not be assassinated, but they would more prosaically be pulled in for interrogation. Their clearances would be revoked. This would be all the easier since the projects in question are supposed to be highly classified, hence would only be known to a very small group where leaks could be traced instantly. Subsequent events showed that Condor and Falcon were not, in fact, members of the intelligence community. They had occupied low level, marginal posts in connection with security-related projects, but neither one of them was an intelligence officer of significant rank. Today one of the two men, Richard Doty, reportedly works as a highway patrol officer in Grants, New Mexico, while the other, Robert Collins, is a consulting engineer. The anatomy of the aliens, which was so mysteriously "revealed" after a motorcycle courier had brought a videotape segment at the last moment before the show went on the air, refusing all comment on where it came from, was a straightforward Hollywood fabrication. It was based on drawings already published by Leonard Stringfield and others, and amplified by the creative talent of the show's technical staff, with whom I have had the opportunity to discuss the whole matter. Anybody can type FTD on a computer screen and shoot a film of it. And anybody can insert a piece of blank paper into a typewriter, mark it SECRET and pretend it is a memorandum for the President about space aliens. Anybody can take a microfilm of the result and mail it anony- mously to his friends and relatives. None of this represents an illegal act. Is that what happened in the case of MJ-12? Was the invention of Condor, Falcon, and the rest of the Aviary just an effort on the part of a few people to exploit the credulity of most ufologists and to feather their own nest? The evidence is strongly in that direction. But why would Richard Doty, when he was on active duty as an Air Force agent, leak out such faked documents to Linda Howe? Was he just trying to use other people to give an appearance of credibility to a disinformation operation he had initiated? Subsequent events leave few doubts that he was—as he himself has allegedly stated—a member