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AREA 51 place. reports. But data is not information. At some point the public relations arm of the Air Force was tasked with the deliberate spreading of confusion and disinformation about UFOs. It used its own officers and its public relations agencies, like DAVA at Norton AFB, to spread the rumors, making a deliberate effort to enlist the UFO amateur groups in support of various forgeries. When Allen Hynek and I refused to take the bait, demanding hard scientific evidence, they assembled people who were not so concerned with proof. They used their assets in Holly- wood and in the publishing world to initiate the rumor that the United States had recovered crashed saucers. My ufologist friends should awaken to the fact that in one way or the other all the stories they are happily spreading about MJ-12 and the aliens originate with the Penta- gon itself, a clear indication that they may have been planted in the first We can only speculate about the motives. Perhaps there is a serious ongoing UFO study at a high level of secrecy, and it is felt that by sending civilian researchers on a wild goose chase for aliens under New Mexico, the secrecy of the real research will be protected. Perhaps the goal is to push the amateur groups into a quagmire of theories so patently absurd that their work will be discredited—again leaving the field wide open for a specialized government study, without any fear of interference from well-meaning academics or bumbling amateurs. Or there could be a deeply buried renegade group of believers with extreme political and religious beliefs within the American intelligence commu- nity itself, piggybacking on classified channels to spread disinformation in support of their own peculiar goals. This hypothesis is not as far- fetched as it might appear. In the last two decades federal investigators nave uncovered and prosecuted several infiltration groups linked to various cults such as Reverend Moon's sect, Scientology, or the shadowy LaRouche organization. In any case, we must realize that those who claim to expose a cover-up may be the very tools of that cover-up, and we must look for the truth in a different direction. Bill Moore's confes- sion, in which he had the courage to reveal he had spread disinforma- tion within the UFO groups that eagerly listened to him, and that he had deliberately befriended various leading ufologists to provide the Air