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This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0483-F), taken from Scheduling Office records, contains Steven M. Greer's CSETI correspondence with the White House. Greer's 15 November 1996 letter asks President Clinton for a meeting before a planned UN disclosure event. A memo sent to senior officials says witnesses would testify publicly unless told by 1 January 1997 that security oaths still bind them. Greer's enclosed briefings claim ET craft were retrieved in 1947. The White House declined the meeting on 6 December 1996.
This being the case (we are eager - nay, desperate- for someone to prove otherwise...) all of the so-called 'national security oaths' and other 'restrictions' placed on military, intelligence and government contract workers are null and void. That is, they appear to have no legal validity since the operations for which they were obtained are themselves illegal. In a constitutional democracy, it is a basic requirement of law that such operations be constitutionally legal, and if they are not, then all that flows from them - including such 'oaths'- are illegal and therefore non- binding. IF these operations are legal, nobody in the Congress, executive branch or senior military with whom we have spoken knows of it. The production of a single current executive order or congressional directive authorizing these projects, which can be independently verified, would convice us otherwise. More than one covert contact has told us that, indeed, any such witnesses can and should speak out at the right time and place since no legal entity would - or legally could - do anything about it. We agree. Beyond this, it is the legal, moral and patriotic duty of such witnesses to come together, and at the highest, best and most credible venue possible, speak out in unison regarding the truth on this matter. Granted, if only one or two such persons come forward, the case will be weak, and the risk will be unacceptable. But if ten, twenty or more such witnesses come together, and united, resolve to share their information and experiences on this subject, then a definitive case will be made , and a great service to the world and their country will be fulfilled. The return of this matter to the legal channels of government and the deliberation of the people is one of the great unfulfilled tasks of the post cold war era Over half a decade has elapsed since the end of the ce,ld war, and there can no longer be a justification (if there ever was) for this type of extr~rdinary secrecy and covert agenda Both national and world security requires that this matter be return~d to the world community as soon as possible. We recommend t.'lat men and women of vision, courage and dedication join with us in fulfilling this task. Far from being a legal violation of 'security oaths', the public testimony by such witnesses is a highly moral and legal act. Further, is it not true that the continuation of this secrecy itself is illegal and immoral, given the inherent unconstitutionality of such programs? Credible witnesses, joining together and providing their testimony in a united strategy can return this subject to legal oversight and control, and thereby enable the people of our country and of the world to begin the public deliberations which should have occurred 50 years ago. 21 October 1996 Steven M. Greer M.D. Director of CSETI PO Box 15401 Asheville NC 28813 704-274-5671; fax: 704-274-6766; email:103275.1472@compuserve.com
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 41 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.