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This Clinton Presidential Library file (NSC Records Management, record 9506127) holds 1995 correspondence from Steven M. Greer and his Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) asking President Clinton to meet with them and to issue an executive order declassifying UFO materials and releasing witnesses from their security oaths. It includes the Project Starlight Coalition letter of June 4, 1995, a list of 35 enclosed documents, CSETI strategy papers and biographies, and a White House reply of August 3, 1995 that forwarded the meeting request.
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CSETI Doctor Joseph Bur�es Biography Dr. !oseoh Burkes 1s a Board Certified Internist living m Southern California. He is a par�er in a medical group serving a large Heaith .'.\1aintenance Orgaruzation and works in the emergency room. Burkes received his M.D. degree from Tufts Universnv School oi Medicine in Boston Massachusetts. He was born in New York Citv in 1949. Or. Burkes has been a lifelong activist in the peace and social justice movements. Durmg the Vietnam War he organized students in antiwar protest activities and in 1979 he co-founded the Los Angeles Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. a coalition of medical and legal proiessionals assisting the labor movement to make the American work place safer. Durmg the 1980s. as the nuclear arms race intensified. he and thousands oi other medical doctors. joined Physicians for Social Respons1oility (PSR), an organization established to educate the public and government leaders about the medical -consequences of nuclear war. Serving in PSR's Los Angeles chapter. he co produced a weekly radio talk show titled, "Prescription for Survival," heard on listener-supported KPFK-FM. As head of PSR's speakers training, he assisted his colleagues in becoming effective public speakers in PSR's campaign against the arms race. He was appointed the Pacific Regional Director for the organization and also served on PSR's National Board of Directors. During his years in the physicians' peace movement he engaged in citizens' diplomacy and travelled to the uSSR four times. There he met with Soviet doctors who were engaged in a similar educational effort under the auspices of the organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for its service to promote world peace. In May of 1992 he met Dr. Steven Greer, a fellow emergency room physician. Dr. Burkes was named the Los Angeles Working Group Coordinator for The CE-5 Initiative and serves as the CSETI liaison to Latin America. As a member of the CSETI Executive Council in the Department of Education. he is responsible for the National Speakers Bureau. He is of Russian-Jewish descent and speaks both Spanish and Russian. Dr. Burkes is married to Yael Bentovim Burkes, an artist and mother of their two children Jonathan and Julia Burkes. They reside in West Los Angeles. 18
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 105 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.