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= REVIEWS explained and that support the case for a massive cover-up. In trying to pinpoint the ultimate agenda, they look at the influence of ex-Nazi rocket scientists in the US space program, top-level complicity with the USSR during the Cold War, and the 1947 DARK MO ON Roswell incident—set up, the authors argue, by the US military in one area as a hoax, and by ETs in another area as a message! Bennett and Percy also consider Mars mis- sion anomalies, geometric correspondences between natural forms on Mars and pyra- mids on Earth, Stonehenge as a gravitron drive blueprint, and the 1991 'Keys' crop glyph as a code for the three speeds of light: solar, interstellar and intergalactic! Full of facts, figures, photos, maps, charts, boxes with clever asides, plus plenty of wild speculation, Dark Moon is a worth a visit. Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers THE DEVIL'S RAINBOW: Conscripts, Chemicals, Catastrophe by Jean R. Williams Publisher: Homecoming, Australia, 1998 ISBN: Ronee one ear tpb) DARK M N: Apollo and th Price: AUD$24.95; AUD$7.00 airmail to Dr ones Pole and the NZ; AUD$10.00 airmail elsewhere by Mary Bennett and David S. Percy patable: inveuole aligns 198 Gy “ Publisher: Aulis Publishers, UK, 1999 Crook Reed. Nambour Cie 4560, tal +61 ISBN: 1-898541-108 (568pp he) reek Road, Nambour Qld 4560, tel + Price: £16.99 + p&h (0)7 5441 1753, e-mail williams@ A ‘ A coastnet.net.au Available: UK—Aulis Publishers, 20 Paul are . St, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DX, tel 01373 his third book from Vietnam War veter- . . ans activist Jean Williams continues the 451777; NEXUS office, tel 01342 322854 theme of Cry in the Wilderness (see review, he idea that NASA's Apollo program 3/05). In The Devil's Rainbow, Williams astronauts never made it to the Moon has recounts more stories from Australian and been around since the 1969 Apollo 11 mis- New Zealand servicemen who are fighting sion. This latest addition to the conspiracy —_foy justice and recognition that their parlous literature is Dark Moon, by two English | states of health (and those of their children) authors—Mary Bennett, a researcher/writer/ are due to their close contact with a cocktail translator specialising in esoteric knowl- of chemical defoliants, insecticides and edge, and David Percy, an award-winning malarial drugs during the Vietnam War. film/TV producer/cameraman. Together The "devil's rainbow"—the toxic chemical they bring new perspectives and much more _ agents made by companies like Monsanto nagging evidence to bear on this big ques- and delivered in drums with bands of white, tion, e.g., from interviews with Kodak and pink, orange, green, blue and purple for Hasselblad personnel who supplied equip- Operation Hades, later Ranch Hand—ulti- ment and technical support to the missions. mately destroyed more than the lives and While not saying that US astronauts never _|ivelihoods of the Vietnamese people. went to the Moon, they do believe from their Jean Williams has become something of a extensive analysis of Apollo photos, video- mother figure to a host of surviving veterans tape and sound recordings that what we saw who seek support, a sympathetic ear, and and heard of those Moon landings was advice on where to turn. Tragically, many deliberately faked in a studio, probably not of these vets are too ill and broke even to too far from Houston mission control. fight for their rights. Those who can are The authors conclude that the inconsisten- _ working to overturn the 1985 report of the cies were put there by NASA 'whistleblow- __ Evatt Royal Commission into the use of her- ers' so that they would be noticed by obser- bicides and pesticides in Vietnam, which vant researchers. They point out the astro- was based on scientific data that has since physical anomalies, radiation difficulties, been considerably revised. Moreover, clas- lunar soil/rock sample dating contradictions —_ sified government and military documents that NASA has never satisfactorily on biological, chemical and nuclear DARK MOON Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers DARK MOON: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers by Mary Bennett and David S. Percy Publisher: Aulis Publishers, UK, 1999 ISBN: 1-898541-108 (568pp hc) Price: £16.99 + p&h Available: UK—Aulis Publishers, 20 Paul St, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DX, tel 01373 451777; NEXUS office, tel 01342 322854 he idea that NASA's Apollo program astronauts never made it to the Moon has been around since the 1969 Apollo 11 mis- sion. This latest addition to the conspiracy literature is Dark Moon, by two English authors—Mary Bennett, a researcher/writer/ translator specialising in esoteric knowl- edge, and David Percy, an award-winning film/TV producer/cameraman. Together they bring new perspectives and much more nagging evidence to bear on this big ques- tion, e.g., from interviews with Kodak and Hasselblad personnel who supplied equip- ment and technical support to the missions. While not saying that US astronauts never went to the Moon, they do believe from their extensive analysis of Apollo photos, video- tape and sound recordings that what we saw and heard of those Moon landings was deliberately faked in a studio, probably not too far from Houston mission control. The authors conclude that the inconsisten- cies were put there by NASA ‘whistleblow- ers' so that they would be noticed by obser- vant researchers. They point out the astro- physical anomalies, radiation difficulties, lunar soil/rock sample dating contradictions that NASA has never satisfactorily NEXUS - 77 FEBRUARY — MARCH 1999