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68 = NEXUS & REVIEWS OUT OF THE SHADOWS Working Party. Yet the MoD stuck to its complicity in the funding and training of al- by Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts guns that UFOs were "of no defence signifi- _ Qa'ida and other fundamentalist groups— Piatkus Books, UK, 2002 cance", and a cloak of secrecy was pulled making us ask what part the CIA may have ISBN 0-7499-2290-7 (282pp he) over matters ufological on both sides of the _ played in these recent terror attacks. Price: A$59.95; NZ$59.95; £17.99: Atlantic (remember the UKUSA agree- Time and time again, the public is Euro31,90; C$n/a ment?). Some classic UK cases are re- deceived and terrorised while powerful gov- Availability: Australia— Hodder Headline analysed and much new ground trod in this ernment and corporate interests pursue (02) 8248 0800 (avail. Jan 2003); NZ— ” eye-opening exposé of decades of official geopolitical and economic wealth in what David Bateman P/L tel 09) 415 7664: cover-up. The authors leave it to readers to amounts to a lead-up to war, or war itself. UK—Piatkus, tel 020 7631 0710 , judge the extensive evidence on its merits. And in response 10 these terror threats, gov- . i . , ernments around the world are upping the NEXUS Orive: Ganada-Georsetown THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT: ante and adopting the most draconian legis- Publications Inc., tel (905) 873 2750 9-11 and State Terror ees al terror atient folklore and mystery investigators by Len Bracken — Tacken asks who the real terrorists are Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts have Adventures Unlimited Press, USA, 2002 When the post-9-I1 anthrax attacks in the been keeping tabs on UK government docu- _ ISBN 1-931882-05-3 (274pp tpb) US involved a strain sourced from a US ments about the UFO phenomenon that are Price: A$33.00; NZ$43.00 + p&p; £15.50 rotate ab. wie wed responsible for released every year under the government's _ inc. p&p; Euro20,90; US$16.00 + s&h nt ‘i Wh s Is a food 4 em % bi vie 30-year rule. They've found papers that Availability: Australia/NZ/UK/Europe— cussion taps links between Bush_Chene oil haven't seen the light of day since the latter | NEXUS offices; UsA—Adventures interests aa the bin Laden family as well as years of World War II, but lament that many —_ Unlimited, tel (815) 253 6390, website - y as ° : . . , pats the Enron collapse. Beware the shadow more are subject to much stricter time rules__http:/Awww.adventuresunlimitedpress.com government, he warns, and remain classified. As confirmed by s events unfold in this ongoing "War on these documents and in interviews, pilots Terrorism", and with the Bush adminis- and crew members often encountered so- tration's sights seemingly set on Iraq (and its cue eee called "foo fighters" and "ghost rockets"— oil reserves) after its Afghanistan incursion; 4 so many that the Royal Air Force at least with personal freedoms increasingly subju- ad to record the sightings and debrie: gated for the sake of protection against ter- crews. So if they weren't German or Soviet rorist threats, and with the existence of a US secret craft or weapons, what were they? "shadow" government openly declared: The phenomenon continued and diversi- surely people are waking up to the fact that ied after the war, and in 1947 the RAF had _all is not as it seems or as we've been told. to scramble a squadron over East Anglia to How much longer can we dismiss govern- try to intercept an "anomalous aircraft". By ment failings as incompetence or coinci- 950, saucer stories were flying across the dence and not as evidence of corruption Atlantic and even members of the British or—dare it be said—conspiracy? Author aristocracy were taking the phenomenon Len Bracken (The Arch Conspirator; see seriously. It was in those early Cold War 7/03) presents a "state terror" thesis in the lays, say Clarke and Roberts, that the Air context of key US foreign policy cover-ups Ministry, Admiralty, War Office and in the last century or so and the events sur- Ministry of Defence set up a Flying Saucer rounding 9-11. He reminds us of the CIA's Working Party. Yet the MoD stuck to its guns that UFOs were "of no defence signifi- cance", and a cloak of secrecy was pulled over matters ufological on both sides of the Atlantic (remember the UKUSA agree- ment?). Some classic UK cases are re- analysed and much new ground trod in this eye-opening exposé of decades of official cover-up. The authors leave it to readers to judge the extensive evidence on its merits. www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2002 — JANUARY 2003