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hail 2 XO\ bE a Mr Arlen Specter, Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee Mr Larry Combast, Chairman, House Intelligence Committee Mr Strom Thurmond, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee Mr Floyd Spence, Chairman, House National Security Committee Dr Daniel Goldin, Director of NASA FBI Director, Louis Freeh Attorney General, Janet Reno without civil, military or other penalties. Since then, there has been an exponential growth in the number of such witnesses who wish to come forward. Some of them are elderly, and suffering from serious medical conditions. We feel that these patriotic and courageous heroes of our country—who very much wish to tell their fellow citizens the truth on this matter— must not take this information to their graves. Therefore, we are asking from you a clear determination regarding their free- dom to speak openly on this subject. Over the past three years, we have found that members of Congress, the Executive Branch, military and intelligence leaders have not been briefed on this important matter, and that operations related to the subject exist as 'unacknowledged' special access projects. Most operations exist in the private aspects of the military-industrial sector, with apparently extra-constitutional funding and oversight. As such, and until established otherwise to our satisfaction, we regard these opera- tions, and all so-called ‘security oaths' derived from them, as illegal, and therefore non-binding for these witnesses mentioned above. Therefore, UNLESS OTHERWISE DIRECTED BY | JANUARY 1997, we will move forward with a series of events whereby these witnesses may provide ne of the few things that UFO researchers do agree on is that there is a cover-up of information per- taining to the UFO phenomenon and, fur- ther, that the governments of the world are long overdue in coming clean with what the military knows on the subject. Indeed, it has reached the point where an increasing number of people involved with UFO research on the ‘inside’ are consider- ing 'defecting to their conscience’. They feel that the information they harbour is of such importance to humanity that it must be shared. Many have already ‘defected’, and can be seen speaking regularly at major international UFO conferences. It would now appear that a mass '‘defec- tion’ is imminent, as evidenced by the fol- lowing letters. From: Steven M. Greer, M.D., Director of CSETI Re: Planned Disclosure on the UFO/Extraterrestrial Subject and National Security Oaths The CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Project Starlight initiative has now identified sev- eral dozen former and current military, intelligence and defense contractor-related witnesses to UFO/ETI events and projects. As set out in a number of documents and briefings (see enclosures) it is our intention to have these important witnesses provide open, public testimony on this matter in the very near future. In the summer of 1995, we requested that the President take appropriate steps to allow these witnesses to speak openly, ok RR OK Gk 15 November 1996 To: President William Jefferson Clinton Vice President Al Gore National Security Advisor, Tony Lake Secretary of Defense, William Perry Secretary of State, Warren Christopher Director Central Intelligence, John Deutch General Shalikashvili, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff NEXUS +73 DR GREER'S UFO MANIFESTO FEBRUARY - MARCH 1997