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(just read about it in S&S II)

Sure, it may very likely have existed, but was MJ-12 an official UFO working group, and was that its only purpose? That’s the question which I still think needs answering.

The reason that I “sort of forgot” about the Douglas-Moise letter is, as I remember, that the way you explained it was either confusing to me or the case seemed to be weak based on what you told me. Perhaps I didn’t get all of it properly.

Personally, I’m not debunking anything, except things that seem to be bunk. If there is a good case, then it’s not “bunk.” Many issues reside between extremes as well.

Perhaps I can persuade you to write this up as a guest column?

Didn’t Jim Martin originally publish info on that Douglas letter out in his Reich book? You’ve explained it to me, but I’ve forgotten the details.

I don’t think UFO believers want to deliberately keep this issue in a fog.

In any case, I pointed out (in the text of the post and the comments) that MJ-12 has never been conclusively proven as an official UFO working group, so maybe it had little or nothing to do with the subject.

I suspect that the 20-year furor over MJ-12 was started with a deliberate smokescreen disinfo program to get UFO researchers fighting over something that may ultimately be a dead end–sort of like the story of an intricate (and useless) mechanism that was deliberately left on a beach in Holland by British intelligence during the WWII occupation in order to waste the time of the Nazis who would find it.

I read that news. Julia Child was also mentioned as an OSS operative. This was common knowledge in the “conspiracy” community for years, and Miles Copeland wrote a book about his OSS/ CIA experiences, I think.

If there was an MJ-12, it was probably a project that had little to do with UFOs, but enough to keep researchers guessing for years while those who are concerned with national security move on to other matters.

Maybe the “real” agency was or still is a loose confederation of insiders who operate as an informal think tank. That way, there is no record of their doings.

I’m not convinced either, but I thought that it was newsworthy. Maybe someone (even Mr. Parks) will follow up.

Perhaps, but I don’t know if anyone will bother tracking down those people, and second-hand information may be too far away from the original source. It seems that a lot of aspects of the UFO subject are often too weird to believe, or that there isn’t enough evidence to convince many people. It’s a bad conundrum.