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That very next day we got well over 3,000 phone calls from people all trying to get in to see me personally; they had to come to see me personally, to tell me about Roswell. We received mail and e-mail by the 10,000 pieces. Our normal 2,000 visitors a day on our World Wide Web site jumped up so high that one of our carriers refused to carry us anymore. At that point I realised there's more than just a casual interest on the part of the public, so we decided we would carry the original ACC Roswell story right through to its ultimate conclusion. We have been for several years now. That very next day we got well over 3,000 phone calls from continue on an ongoing basis having access to these documents people all trying to get in to see me personally; they had to come and so-called Notebook, we're very cautious about the informa- to see me personally, to tell me about Roswell. We received mail tion we give out. and e-mail by the 10,000 pieces. Our normal 2,000 visitors a day In any event, we decided to depict in a series of pages on the on our World Wide Web site jumped up so high that one of our _ Internet the entirety of the story of what we'd been going through, carriers refused to carry us anymore. going on the theory that one of the ways you can protect yourself At that point I realised there's more than just a casual interest on from, for instance, being assassinated by having information in the part of the public, so we decided we would carry the original your possession that's dangerous to others, is to publicise it as ACC Roswell story right through to its ultimate conclusion. We widely as you possibly can—which is what we did. Of course, have been for several years now. there's a certain drawback to that approach. The drawback was that within no time the attacks, the onslaughts, the assaults, the S o, we have publicised the fact that Dr Morton met his death threats, the credibility attacks, the undermining of credibili- untimely death and that Dr Morton was one of the few peo- ty, the public humiliation, pain and suffering began. ple who knew the true history of the transistor at AT&T— We found ourselves besieged by what I can only describe as a aside from Bill Shockley who would never have talked because multilateral black project, which included death threats on myself that would have meant the end of his Nobel Prize, along with Drs and my family, death threats on our employees, pictures of me Bardeen and Brattain, and Dr Kilby who subsequently went on to —_ with bullet holes and blood dripping out, on the Internet, out of bigger and better things, and he's dead now. the blue...a really, really strange thing to have happen. We had It looked like Dr Morton was breaking camp with AT&T and _ people come up and claim they had been hired by us to verify the was very, very outspoken, very angry with AT&T over this whole claims that technology like this originated on an alien spacecraft. thing. Professional jealousy, I guess. One day in 1972, Dr And you've got to understand, we didn't say that it originated on Morton was found knocked uncon- an alien spacecraft. We asked the scious and set afire in his Volvo P18 question, "Did it originate...?" sports coupé, devastating the Morton Would you run around on the household and family—my friends— We found ourselves besieged by Internet saying this technology came and for reasons that nobody seemed what ] can only describe asa from an alien spacecraft? No. You'd to know. ask the question. You'd say, "Let's Well, we decided to see whether or multilateral black project, which put together the evidence; let's find not there might be any link, any rea- included death threats on myself out." son to link Dr Morton's possible We decided we would approach a migration to a Japanese firm, and we and my family, death threats on higher authority, ask the question to tried to make an inquiry about it with our employees pictures of me the higher authority and make it a 3 the corporate security department at m matter of public record. So, who is a AT&T. That's when we discovered with bullet holes 0 higher authority, other than, say, Bill that there are people working in cor- Clinton, that you might go to to ask porate security at AT&T who don't the question: Did the transistor and want to talk about Dr Morton's subsequent technologies fall into the untimely death. Now, you've got to understand, we're talking hands of AT&T from the Nazi Germans, the Japanese? Well, nei- about something which happened 25 years ago. ther of them had any of this stuff. Secret government project? So we were investigating further, and I interviewed a member _ Well, the United States Government couldn't build any of this of the Morton household who was talking about the transistor pro- stuff. Half this stuff that we saw in the Notebook...even today we ject and got very, very teary-eyed when I talked about the transis- don't even have some of the minerals, some of the chemical mate- tor. I said, "Oh, did you ever wonder where the transistor really rials, necessary to create them. came from?" It was as if I had cut a jugular. The conversation We decided we would ask the Secretary of Defense, William ended right there. "Can't discuss this further with you." Cohen. In fact, we got William Cohen and then his administrative We looked into it a little bit further and it became clear to us assistant on the phone, and the head of the Air Force OSI instantly that Dr Morton was probably responsible for this Shopkeeper's on the phone with us, and sent them a kit and kaboodle of stuff to Notebook working its way outside of AT&T—probably, because _ take a look at. We asked them to come down, take a look at he was the principal investigator. Everybody knows what a prin- things that we wanted explained in their original context. Well, cipal investigator is. Involved in any government project you we've never heard from them about it. We haven't heard from the ave a principal investigator. They have to name somebody to Air Force or OSI—we filed OSI 9001 pages, demands, with them. take the blame. When AT&T screws up, they have to have some- We've never heard a single word back from the OSI, the Air one to fire, and they're certainly not going to pick someone impor- Force, the Pentagon. They've kept their distance, accepted the tant enough in their view; they're going to pick the one that every- requested requests and violated the law, because under the law, ody doesn't like. He was a tough guy; very, very strong-minded; when you give them these demands, they have 30 days to and everybody didn't like him that much, so they made him the respond. Nota single response. As if to say, "You're not influen- rincipal investigator. tial enough to get us to respond to these." There were other people involved, apparently. There was a fel- In any event, we got nowhere with them so we decided we low by the name of Ramey. He was a figure at the Department of | might embarrass them a little bit. Now, how do you embarrass the Army. He was named in the documents. There were quite a the Air Force? I mean, sometimes they do a pretty good job of few other people named in the documents. We're not revealing all embarrassing themselves! But how do you embarrass the Air of the people at this particular juncture because of Mrs Proscauer Force, how do you embarrass William Cohen, the Secretary of who won't allow us to give out certain things. And in order to Defense, particularly in a time period when we're in the middle of our employees, pictures of me with bullet holes ... JUNE — JULY 1999 NEXUS - 59