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MAJESTIC 12 emphasis.) getaway. 47 hundred ufologists had assembled to discuss the progress in the field. I attended as one of the invited speakers (my presentation centered on cases of human injuries in Brazil). So did such researchers as Linda Howe and Jenny Zeidman, a former associate of Dr. Hynek. Also on the program was Bill Moore, whose speech was anxiously awaited by people who expected him to put to rest a number of very nasty rumors about the MJ-12 matter. Among these rumors was the accusation made by researcher Lee Graham, who stated that Bill Moore had approached him "in an intelli- gence capacity" and had indicated that he worked for the government for the purpose of releasing sensitive UFO information to the public. Graham also claimed that Moore had shown him a DIS (Defense Investigation Service) badge. Describing these events, Robert Hastings wondered why Moore had not immediately disassociated himself from Richard Doty if it had become obvious that the latter was forging government documents. In a confused and embarrassing presentation before the MUFON Conference, Bill Moore indeed confessed that he had willingly allowed himself to be used by various people claiming to act on behalf of Air Force Intelligence and that he had knowingly disseminated disinforma- tion, although he had never been "on the payroll." This is a mere play on words, of course. Not being on the payroll does not mean that he was not paid in cash or through other means. The community of UFO researchers has not become wise to this subtle detail. Writing to the editor of the excellent magazine Caveat Emptor (P.O. Box 4533, Metuchen, NJ 08840) in the summer of 1990, researcher Robert Hast- ings was still calling Moore "an unpaid government informant." (My Moore gave a weak excuse for his actions, claiming that he had acted in a heroic private effort to infiltrate and ultimately expose the opera- tion. At the end of this rambling speech, Moore refused to take any questions and left the auditorium through a side door, making a quick When I discussed the matter with a scientist friend who was helping me check into the information about MJ-12, we reviewed the allega-