Notes from a Conversation with Dr. Stephen Greer

Greer heads the Disclosure Project at http://www.disclosureproject.org/

Interviewed a few days after he held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on May 9, 2001 to present a significant number of observers who told stories of visual and radar sightings of unconventional flying vehicles. The press conference is available to watch in its entirety on video at : http://www.disclosureproject.org/

Greer has been working on this, he said, for eight years and has over a hundred people on videotape. In the last weeks, thirty more have come forward, some corroborating witnesses at the press conference. Lone wolfs who go public have not had effect. This is the first of a number of conferences he intends to hold. An edited transcript will be forthcoming in a matter of weeks with 69 people. He is looking for someone good to do a documentary. Media coverage is what will matter most to mobilize public pressure.

[I asked about Terry Hansen’s hypothesis in “The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up” (Xlibris: 2000) that the National Inquirer might be have been a CIA operation ... [see my review of “The Missing Times” for IUR: International UFO Reporter, the publication of CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) Spring 2001 (Vol 26, Number 1).

(Hansen later referred to the discovery by John Kenneth Galbraith, when ambassador to India that a sleazy political journal he intensely disliked was financed by the CIA. The use of discredited periodicals whether owned or covertly influenced is one of many creative uses of propaganda outlets by intelligence agencies. Gene Pope, founder of the National Inquirer, listed the CIA as his employer in 1951 and stated that he worked in psychological operations before leaving to found the Inquirer]

“I have people who worked on a committee with the National Inquirer put together by intelligence people and Daniel Shehan, the attorney, who broke the Iran Contra information and did the Silkwood case and he saw a CIA document with 43 names of CIA and NSA assets that were on the staff of major media in the world to manage these stories. He’s not a ‘conspiracy theorist’ but a major attorney.

“If we keep the media focus and public pressure on, we might get hearings. But I have been working with some of these people since 1995 and they’re frightened of this stuff, quite frankly, they understand what they’re stepping on. I tried to do this privately – meeting with Clinton’s CIA director and Senators between 93-98 and they made quite clear that this was too hot a potato to handle unless there was a lot of media coverage and public constituent demand that it be covered, then they could respond. Now embassies in DC want to be briefed as well.

“I will be glad to do briefings or meet with prospective witnesses – you cannot have too many military and government witnesses. The more corroboration the better. We were lucky to get a lot of people – about a dozen now - who corroborated the Malmstrom Montana ICBM event and the landing of the vehicle at the Bentwaters RAF base which counters the charge that one person was grandstanding or mistaken.”

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