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This file, released by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library under FOIA request 2006-0476-F, holds White House correspondence records for case 243544. In a July 8, 1997 letter to President Clinton, Kent Jeffrey of the International Roswell Initiative submitted more than 20,000 signed copies of the Roswell Declaration, which asks for an Executive Order declassifying UFO information. On December 9, 1997 the Air Force replied that such an order was unnecessary because declassification under E.O. 12958 was already underway.
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MUFON UFO JOURNAL model at KOAT required the operator to flip a switch to receive an incoming message. This, Korff says, disproves Sleppy's claim of FBI in terference: But does it? He does not tell us how the FBI determined the Teletype model decades after the fact, and his notes reveal the "evidence" on which he bases his conclusion: a series of per sonal telephone conversations in 1996 between the author and unnamed persons in the FBI's headquarters and its Dallas field office. (2) The late Oliver Wendell "Pappy" Henderson was a C-54 transport pilot at Roswell in July 1947. According to family members and his friend John Kromschroeder, Henderson saw alien bodies and flew saucer wreckage to Wright Field, Ohio. Kromschroeder also claimed Henderson showed him what he said was a piece or pieces of the doomed saucer. Here Korff seems to have scored a useful hit. He located and interviewed Jonathan Smith, one of Henderson's military buddies. Smith revealed Henderson had some fragments of a German V-2 rocket (not a"buzz bomb," as misidentified by Korft), which he often showed friends, telling them they were pieces of a crashed UFO. (3) In 1987, what purported to be a draft Top Secret document was made public, revealing the existence of MJ-12, a group of government offi cials and scientists formed after the Roswell inci dent to manage and keep secret the truth about UFOs. One alleged member of the group was as tronomer and vehement UFO debunker Donald Menzel, who did much classified work for the U.S. government. This has been taken by many, notably Roswell luminary Stanton Friedman, to be one proof of the reality of MJ-12. Korff convincingly relates that, while working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1988, his duties permitted him to view all of Menzel's security files. They contained not even a hintofMJ-12. Another useful hit. (4) In 1989, Roswell researcher Bill Moore stunned the UFO field in. a speech before the an nual MUFON symposium. Moore said he was working with intelligence operatives, spying on and sowing disinformation in the UFO research community. He did this, he said, to gain informa tion about UFOs from his spy masters. With amusing melodramatic flourishes, Korff tells us that in 1982 Moore at tempted to use him to acquire film of a UFO from the late Pete Mazzola, a New York re searcher. Korff says Moore told him essentially the same story he made public seven years later, claimed aliens had been influencing us for thou- _ sands of years and were responsible for things now attributed to Jesus Christ, and warned Kortl he "could be killed" if he did not cooperate. Interesting, if true, but why did Korff wait 15 years 10 tell this tale? (5) & (6) These are the promised never before published military records and cOITespondence a page from Roswell Army Air Field intelligence officer and key Roswell incident witness Jesse Marcel, Sf.' s May 6, 1948, officer efficiency re port in which his tendency to "magnify prob lems" is mentioned, and a ca. 1950 letter to Marcel from his sister, asking him to seek release from the service so he can look after their 92 year-old invalid mother. While it is true these documents have not been published before, last year Robert Todd made public the substance of the former, and the latter merely provides the precise reason for Marcel's September 1950 hardship release from active duty. These "nice to haves" and "so whats?" consti tute the entire body of this dreadful book's "reve lations powerful enough to change public opin ion forever." Even the chapter devoted to de . bunking the infamous alien autopsy hoax film is remarkably superficial and tells us nothing new of any significance. This is especially disappoint; ing, since high-tech analysis of imagery is one of Kortl's areas of true expertise, as he so devastat ingly demonstrated in his expose of the Billy Meier cult/con (Spaceships ofthe Pleiades: The Billy Meier Stm:y, Prometheus, 1995). Sadly, The Roswell UFO Crash is a waste of time and money for anyone in search of "what they don't want you to know" about Roswell. Copyright © 1997 Karl T. Pjlock Karl Ptlock is the author of Roswell in Perspective (1994), published by and still avail able from the Fund for UFO Research or, auto graphed, directly from him. His current research is based on the working assumption that the an swers to the UFO enigma may well lie in the data accumulated from the mid-l 940s through the mid-1960s. He also is collaborating with James W. Moseley, "notorious" editor of "Saucer Smear," on Shockingly Close to the Truth! Moseley's ufological memoir. Karl in vites anyone who has information bearing on any case from the "Golden Age of UFOs" or re lated matters to contact him: PO Box 93338, Albuquerque, NM 87199-3338; 505/867-0893; klperehwon@aol.com. Korff convinc ingly relates that, while working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1988, his du ties permitted him to view all of debunker Donald Menzel's secu rity files. They contained not even a hint of MJ-12. June 1997 Number 350 Page 19
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 47 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.