-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- JIM KEITH SAID "FOR THE DEBUNKER, ALTERNATIVE 3 IS A SITTING DUCK." VERY SOON, AFTER QUOTING FROM EARLY PARTS OF MY NOVEL - AND I STRESS THE WORD "NOVEL - - KEITH SAYS : 'WHILE WATKINS IS UNABLE TO SUBSTANTIATE THESE SUSPICIONS, HE IS ABLE TO INSIST THAT THEY ARE TRUE." A FEW PAGES FURTHER ON HE CONFUSES ME - THE SOLE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK - WITH THE WRITERS OF THE ORIGINAL TV HOAX DOCUMENTARY. HE DID SO BECAUSE HE DIDN'T BOTHER TO CHECK - OR EVEN TO REMEMBER A PRIVATE LETTER OF MINE WHICH HE PRESENTS ELSEWHERE IN HIS BOOKS. THAT LETTER, WHICH I WROTE TO AN INDIVIDUAL ENQUIRER IN AMERICA AND WHICH KEITH DIDN'T BOTHER TO FOLLOW UP ON, STRESSES THAT I WROTE THE BOOK AND THE NAMES OF THE ORIGINAL TV PEOPLE - DAVID AMBROSE AND CHRISTOPHER MILES - APPEARED ON THE BOOK FOR CONTRACTUAL REASONS. BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEBUNKING BUSINESS, APPARENTLY, WHO CARES ABOUT ACCURACY. KEITH GOES ON TO MAKE THIS ASTONISHING STATEMENT ABOUT THE "AUTHORS" - NOT THE PLURAL THERE - THE AUTHORS OF ALTERNATIVE 3: "APPARENTLY THEY THOUGHT THAT IF THEY REPEATEDLY INSISTED THAT THEIR STATEMENTS WERE NOT FICTIONAL, IF PHONY TRANSCRIPTS WERE PROVED WITH OTHER PHONY TRANSCRIPTS, THAT THE PUBLIC, THAT BEFUDDLED SLIGHT-ATTENTIONED CREATURE, WOULD BUY THEIR STORY, LOCK, STOCK AND BATCH CONSIGNMENT." HE ALSO STATES: "WHAT ALTERNATIVE 3 ENTIRELY LACKS IS A SINGLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE PROVING THE CONSPIRACY." THEN CONSIDER THIS SLICE OF NONSENSE FROM PAGE 16 OF HIS UPDATED BOOK: "UNBELIEVABLE 'SECRET DOCUMENTS' ARE QUOTED AT LENGTH IN THE BOOK, WITHOUT COPIES BEING REPRODUCED..." WHY ON EARTH SHOULD COPIES BE REPRODUCED ? I'VE MADE IT CLEAR REPEATEDLY, AS JIM KEITH SHOULD KNOW, THAT THIS WAS A WORK OF FICTION. HE EVEN ACCUSES ME OF MAKING UP THE NAMES OF SCIENTISTS. FROM MY BOOK HE LIFTS A LIST OF THEM AND SAYS: "SO FAR AS I CAN DETERMINE, THESE INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR DISAPPEARANCES WERE ALL INVENTED FOR ALTERNATIVE 3." WELL DONE MR KEITH ! YOU ARE ACTUALLY INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO RECOGNISE THAT CHARACTERS IN A WORK OF FICTION MAY REALLY BE FICTIONAL. TO MAKE HIS FINDINGS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS, A FEW PAGES EARLIER KEITH QUOTES IN FULL A PRIVATE LETTER I WROTE TO AN ENQUIRER IN AMERICA IN WHICH I SAY IN WHICH I DESCRIBE ALTERNATIVE 3 AS A "HIGH DIVE INTO FICTlON." IN ANSWER TO SPECIFIC QUERIES, I GAVE THESE ANSWERS WHICH KEITH QUOTES IN BOTH HIS BOOKS. 1) I SAID: THERE IS NO ASTRONAUT NAMED GRODIN. (THIS IS INTERESTING BECAUSE KEITH, WITH ASTONISHING PERCEPTION, DESCRIBES AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE FICTIONAL GRODIN AND HIS FICTIONAL GIRLFRIEND AS "OBVIOUSLY A SET-UP INTENDED TO DEPICT GRODIN'S DETERIORATING CONDITION. AMAZING, EH ?) 2) I SAID: THERE IS NO SCEPTRE TELEVISION AND THE REPORTER BENSON IS ALSO FICTIONAL. (THIS IS ALSO INTERESTING BECAUSE KEITH, DESPITE HAVING USED MY LETTER IN HIS BOOKS, SEEMS TO BELIEVE THERE IS A TELEVISION STATION OF THAT NAME. HE WRITES: "ACTUALLY, THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE FACTUAL PORTIONS OF THE BOOK ... CONSIDERING THE NATURE OF THE SHOW, I CAN UNDERSTAND STATION EXECS NOT WANTING TO HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH IT. THE AUTHOR ... (BY THIS TIME, YOU'LL NOTE, I'M A SINGULAR AUTHOR AGAIN)... THE AUTHOR PRESENTS EXAMPLES OF OFFICE WRANGLING AS PROOF OF A COVER-UP BUT MY GUESS IS THAT IF STUDIO OR STATION EXECUTIVES DID OBJECT TO THE PROGRAM IT WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT HARE-BRAINED AND A DANGEROUS PRANK." BUT IT'S RATHER LIKE SAYING CHARLES DICKENS WAS A LIAR WHEN HE REPORTED THAT OLIVER TWIST ASKED FOR MORE. IN FACT, DICKENS WAS A DOUBLE LIAR BECAUSE OLIVER TWIST DID NOT EVEN EXIST WHEN JULIUS CAESAR WAS BEING STABBED TO DEATH IN THE YEAR 44 BC DID HE REALLY SAY "ET TU BRUTUS" ? HAD CAESAR REALLY HAD A FEVER WHEN HE WAS IN SPAIN WHICH, IN THE WORDS OF CASSIUS, MAKE HIM CRY OUT LIKE A SICK GIRL ? WERE THESE DETAILS TRUE ? OR DID SHAKESPEARE ... NAUGHTY MAN · .. TAKE THE LIBERTY OF MAKING THEM UP ? IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY, WOULDN'T IT, FOR HIS WRITINGS TO BE DEBUNKED BY SOMEONE SUCH AS JIM KEITH. EXCEPT THAT EVEN KEITH, I'M SURE, WOULD RECOGNISE THAT DICKENS AND SHAKESPEARE HAD WRITTEN FICTION. SO WHAT THE DEVIL IS HE ON ABOUT HERE ? HE SUGGESTS THAT MY BOOK MAY HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AS "GREY" DISINFORMATION - PRESUMABLY BECAUSE I WAS PAID BY THE CIA - WHICH, IN HIS WORDS, WAS "CALCULATED TO CONFUSE AND DEFUSE THE ISSUES OF ELITIST CONTROL, GENOCIDE, AND SECRET SPACE PROGRAMMES, BY REVEALING YET SECRETLY CONCEALING THESE TRUTHS." DID YOU EVER HEAR SUCH RUBBISH ? HE GOES ON: "IT WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST INSTANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT (IN EITHER ITS OVERT OR COVERT MANIFESTATIONS) USING DISINFORMATION VECTORS TO CONFUSE, PACIFY OR STAMPEDE THE POPULACE IN DIRECTIONS OF ITS CHOOSING.~ 'DISINFORMATION VECTORS." SOUNDS IMPRESSSIVE, DOESN'T IT. BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE REALLY KNOW WHAT A VECTOR IS ? I DO ·.. BUT ONLY BECAUSE I LOOKED IT UP IN CHAMBERS TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY. VECTOR MEANS ·.. AND I QUOTE ... "A DIRECTED QUANTITY, AS A STRAIGHT LINE IN SPACE, INVOLVING BOTH ITS DIRECTION AND MAGNITUDE." IT ALSO MEANS ... AND AGAIN I QUOTE "A CARRIER OF DISEASE OR INFECTION." IT IS ALSO "THE COURSE OF AN AIRCRAFT, MISSILE, ETC." THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS A VECTOR. I AM NOT, I ASSURE YOU, A DIRECTED QUANTITY OR A STRAIGHT LINE IN SPACE ... I AM NOT A CARRIER OF DISEASE - AT LEAST, NOT AS FAR AS I KNOW - AND I AM NOT THE COURSE OF AN AIRCRAFT. IN FACT, I AM NOT A VECTOR. HOWEVER, IF JIM KEITH HAD REALLY WANTED THE TRUTH ABOUT ME, IF HE'D BOTHERED TO WRITE TO ME OR TELEPHONE ME, AS HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAVE DONE HE WOULDN'T HAVE MADE SUCH AN ASS OF HIMSELF IN DESCRIBING ME AS ONE. FOLLOWING THROUGH THE POSSIBILITY, AS HE SEES IT, THAT I AM A PAWN OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, HE GOES ON: "ALONG THIS LINE, LESLIE WATKINS' BACKGROUND AS A WRITER IS INTERESTING. HIS BOOKS, IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION, ARE THE SLEEPWALK KILLERS, A NON-FICTION STUDY OF SOMNABULISTIC VIOLENCE, "THE KILLING OF IDI AMIN", ABOUT WATKINS' EXPERIENCES WHEN IMPRISONED BY THE AMIN REGIME, THE UNEXPLODED MAN, CHARACTERISED AS A "THRILLER" ALTHOUGH THE TITLE SOUNDS AS IF IT MIGHT BE ON THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE MIND CONTROL THEME ALTERNATIVE 3, THE REAL EXORCISTS, A NONFICTION BOOK ABOUT EXORCISM, PRIVATE OPINIONS, NONFICTION ABOUT PUBLIC OPINION POLLS, BILLION DOLLAR MIRACLE, A BOOK ABOUT THE NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL INDUSTRY, AND THE STORY OF MONEY, COMMISSIONED BY BARCLAYS BANK." HE APPARENTLY WASN'T INTERESTED IN READING ANY OF THESE BOOKS, ALTHOUGH THREE WERE BIG SELLERS WHEN PUBLISHED BY MAJOR PUBLISHERS IN HIS COUNTRY - AMERICA - AND DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE A CLUE WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT. AS A SERIOUS RESEARCHER, HE PREFERED TO GUESS WHAT THEY MIGHT BE ABOUT. AND HE GUESSED WRONGLY. THE KILLING OF IDI AMIN, FOR INSTANCE, IS NOT ABOUT MY EXPERIENCES WHEN I WAS IMPRISONED IN UGANDA, ALTHOUGH I WAS IMPRISONED THERE. THE UNEXPLODED MAN HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. PRIVATE OPINIONS ... WELL THERE HE'S EVEN GOT THE TITLE WRONG. YET HIS COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF THESE BOOKS DOESN'T INHIBIT HIM FROM STATING: "ALTOGETHER AN INTERESTING MIX OF TOPICS, WITH A PREDOMINANT THEME THAT MIGHT BE TERMED MANIPULATIVE PSYCHOLOGY." WHAT PREPOSTOROUS GARBAGE ! THEN, IN CASE NO-ONE BELIEVES HIS SUGGESTION THAT I'VE BEEN HIRED BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TO HOODWINK THE WORLD BY WRITING THIS NOVEL, HE MAKES YET ANOTHER BIZARRE STATEMENT. HE SAYS THERE IS A "POSSIBILITY" THAT ALTERNATIVE 3 IS WHAT HE CALLS "AN EXPRESSION OF NAZI OCCULT DOCTRINE." THEN HE GOES ON TO LINK ME AND MY BOOK WITH ADOLF HITLER I I WAS 15 WHEN HITLER DIED IN 1945 BUT KEITH ISN'T ONE TO LET COMMON SENSE - OR TRUTH - GET IN THE WAY. AMONG THE MANY PECULIAR CLAIMS HE MAKES IN HIS BOOK - ONLY TENUOUSLY RELATED TO HIS THEME IS THAT DURING WORLD WAR 11 GERMAN V-2s WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH FOR SEVEN THOUSAND BRITISH CITIZENS."... IN FACT, THE FIRST V2 ROCKET FELL ON LONDON ON SEPTEMBER 8 1944 - ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE GEMANY SURRENDERED ... THAT WAS ON MAY 7 1945 ... AND THE TOTAL OF FATALITIES FROM THESE ROCKETS QUOTED BY KEITH - SEVEN THOUSAND - IS ALMOST CERTAINLY WIDELY INACCURATE. BUT LET'S NOT QUIBBLE ABOUT THAT BECAUSE HIS RECITAL OF SO-CALLED FACTS GETS SILLIER AND SILLIER... THEN HE GOES ON "HOWEVER, THROUGH FALSE REPORTS CHANNELLED THROUGH ABWEHR AGENTS BRITISH INTELLIGENCE WAS ABLE TO RE-TARGET THE MISSILES FROM FALLING MOSTLY ON UPPER CLASS NEIGHBOURHOODS INTO THE WORKING CLASS NEIGHBOURHOODS OF SOUTH LONDON !" AT THAT TIME I WAS A PUPIL AT LUTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL - 45 KILOMETRES NORTH OF LONDON - AND I CAN ASSURE THE LUTON AREA, WELL AWAY FROM SOUTH LONDON, HAD ITS SHARE OF V2 ROCKETS.. THERE IS SO MUCH DAFT MATERIAL IN THE KEITH BOOKS THAT, AS I SAY, I WOULDN'T HAVE BE WASTING TIME EVEN MENTIONING THEM IF WERE NOT FOR ONE DISTURBING FACT. BY SUGGESTING THAT CERTAIN SELECTED PARTS OF MY BOOK ARE TRUE, HE HAS DONE READERS A GRAVE DISSERVICE BECAUSE HE HAS FANNED FEARS SUCH AS THOSE I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS TALK. IF I TRIM SOME OF HIS EXCESSIVE VERBIAGE, HERE IS WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAYS ON PAGES 226 AND 227. "ALTERNATIVE 3 POINTS TO ... THE DEADLY ALIGNMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND ELITIST CONTROL ...(AND) IT IS RIGHT ON THE MARK." HE GOES ON: "I DO KNOW THAT ALTERNATIVE 3, IN ITS WORST AND MOST GRUESOME VISION, IS ABSOLUTELY INEVITABLE." IN OTHER WORDS, HE IS TELLING READERS WHO ARE ALREADY ANXIOUS ... BE FRIGHTENED, BE VERY FRIGHTENED, BECAUSE SOME OF WHAT WATKINS HAS WRITTEN - SOME OF THIS "GRUESOME VISION" IS ABSOLUTELY INEVITABLE. THAT, MY FRIENDS,IS GROSSLY IRRESPONSIBLE. **** NOW LET US, AT LAST, GET DOWN TO SOME SENSE. I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT, THANKS LARGELY TO MATERIAL I RECEIVED AFTER THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED, I HAVE BECOME CONVINCED THAT THE SUPERPOWERS HAVE BEEN - AND STILL ARE - CO-OPERATING IN A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. BUT IT IS NOT THE EVIL, BALEFUL, ONE PEOPLE BELIEVE I PRESENTED IN MY NOVEL ALTERNATIVE 3. I HAD PLANNED TO WRITE A FOLLOW-UP BOOK - BACKLASH TO ALTERNATIVE 3 - USING MUCH OF THE MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY READERS TO EXAMINE THE REAL TRUTH OF THIS CONSPIRACY. BUT WHEN I MOVED FROM LONDON TO SYDNEY TO TAKE A NEW POST THERE AS A SENIOR EDITOR WITH READER'S DIGESI MY GOODS AND FURNITURE WENT BY SEA.AND, UNFORTUNATELY, A CHEST CONTAINING ALL THE MATERIAL FOR THE NEW BOOK - THE LETTERS, THE TRANSCRIPTS OF INTERVIEWS, THE LOT - WERE MYSTERIOUSLY LOST IN TRANSIT. CONSEQUENTLY, I WAS UNABLE TO WRITE THAT BOOK. TONIGHT I WANT TO PUT THE RECORD STRAIGHT. MANY PEOPLE MAY FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT THERE COULD HAVE BEEN SECRET CO-OPERATION BETWEEN AMERICA AND RUSSIA. THE FALLACY OF THAT BELIEF WAS EXPOSED, AS MANY OF YOU WILL KNOW, BY MAJOR GEORGE RACEY JORDAN WHO FOR TWO YEARS - MAY 1942 TO JUNE 1944 - WAS AMERICA'S TOP LIAISON MAN WITH THE RUSSIANS OVER LEASE-LEND. HIS DIARIES - MAJOR JORDAN'S DIARIES, AS THEY'RE KNOWN - SHOW THAT TOP-SECRET INFORMATION AND MATERI TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WAS THEN BEING FURTIVELY SUPPLIED T THE RUSSIANS, AND THIS, ACCORDING TO MAJOR JORDAN, WAS NOT JUST A WARTIME PRACTICE. IT WAS KNOWN TO HAVE CONTINUED AFT IT BECAME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, THANKS LARGELY TO HIS COURAGEOU EXPOSE, UNTIL DECEMBER 13 1949. THAT WAS THREE YEARS AFTER WINSTON CHURCHILL COINED THE MEMORABLE PHRASE ABOUT AN "IR CURTAIN" HAVING DESCENDED ACROSS EUROPE. THE COLD WAR, AS BECAME kNOWN, BEGAN IN EARNEST IN FEBRUARY 1948 WHEN THE RUSSIAN DICTATOR, JOSEPH STALIN BLOCKADED BERLIN - FORCING THE WESTERN POWERS TO SUPPLY BERLINERS WITH FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS BY AIR. SO, EVEN AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR, THERE APPARENTLY WAS SECRET CO-OPERATION RUSSIA AND AMERICA WHY SHOULD THEY SECRETLY CO'OPERATE TO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT UFOS? NOW THAT IS THE KEY QUESTION. DESPITE ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT FLYING SAUCERS ARE A REALITY, NASA AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS KEEP DENYING THEIR EXISTENCE. A MAJOR INVESTIGATION INTO THEM, INITIATED ONLY BECAUSE OF MOUNTING PRESSURE FROM THE PUBLIC, WAS LAUNCHED IN 'THE SIXTIES BY A TEAM HEADED BY A PROFESSOR OF ASTROPHYSICS, DR EDWARD CONDON. HE HAD A BUDGET OF HALF A MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS WHICH, THIRTY YEARS AGO, WAS A GREAT HEAP OF MONEY. HIS EVENTUAL REPORT DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF FLYING SAUCERS AND A PANEL OF THJE AMERICAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ENDORSED THE CONCLUSION THAT : "FURTHER EXTENSIVE STUDY PROBABLY CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED." YET CONDON'S JOINT PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, PHYSICIST DR JAMES MACDONALD DERIDED THE CONDON REPORT. HE SAID: "NO MATTER HOW LONG IT IS, HWAT IT INCLUDES, HOW IT IS SAID, OR WHAT IT RECOMMENDS, IT WILL LACK THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF CREDIBILITY." IT WILL LACK THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF CREDIBILITY THIS HELPED CONFIRM THE BELIEF THAT THE CONDON SO-CALLED INVESTIGATION WAS MERELY PART OF AN ELABORATE COVER-UP. THE REASON FOR THAT COVER-UP, HOWEVER, WAS TO AVOID MASS PANIC. MASS PANIC OVER FACTS WHICH WERE WELL-KNOWN TO TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AROUND THE WORLD. 1. SPACE CRAFT FROM AT LEAST ONE OTHER PLANET HAD INVESTIGATED THIS WORLD. 2. TRAVELLERS FROM SOME OF THOSE CRAFT HAD LANDED AND WERE AMONG US - STUDYING US AS IF WE WERE STRANGE CREATURES IN A ZOO, MAYBE TRANSPORTING SOME OF US TO THEIR HOME PLANETS AS EXHIBITS. THAT IS WHAT THE MEN IN BLACK ARE REPORTED TO HAVE DESCRIBED. MOST OF YOU, I'M SURE, WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH THE ACCOUNTS OF MEETINGS WITH THE MEN IN BLACK. ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND - TO MY MIND - MOST CONVINCING CAME FROM AMERICAN RESEARCHER ALBERT BENDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL FLYING SAUCER BUREAU HE WAS AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WHO, IN MARCH 1953, TOOK PART IN WHAT THEY CALLED C ... FOR CONTACT ... DAY AT PRECISELY THE SAME SYNCHRONISED TIME - 6.OPM USA EASTERN TIME, 11.0 PM LONDON TIME, 11.0 AM NEW ZEALAND TIME - THEY ALL CONCENTRATED ON TRYING TO SEND AN AGREED TELEPATHIC MESSAGE TO THE 99 OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT THAT HAVE BEEN OBSERVING OUR PLANET EARTH." THE MESSAGE ENDED WITH THESE WORDS: "BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING A MIRACLE HERE ON OUR PLANET TO WAKE UP THE IGNORANT ONES TO REALITY. LET US HEAR FROM YOU. WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS." LATER, BENDER CLAIMED, HE WAS VISITED ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS BY THREE MEN. HE SAID: "THEIR CLOTHING WAS MADE OF A BLACK MATERIAL WHICH REMINDED ME OF CLOTH USED IN THE ATTIRE OF CLERGYMEN. IT WAS WELL-PRESSED AND APPEARED ALMOST NEW. ALL THE OTHER APPAREL SUCH AS TIES, SHIRTS, STOCKINGS AND SHOES WERE ALSO BLACK. THEY WORE HATS, OF HOMBURG STYLE ALSO BLACK." THEY ALSO WORE BLACK GLOVES, HE ADDED, AND THEIR FACES WERE UNPLEASANT TO LOOK AT. WE SHOULD NOT ASSUME FOR ONE MOMENT THAT THIS IS WHAT THE ALIENS WOULD NORMALLLY HAVE LOOKED LIKE. THIS IS WHAT THEY CHOSE TO LOOK LIKE IN ORDER TO MAKE THE RIGHT IMPRESSION ON BENDER. PSYCHIC RESEARCHERS KNOW THAT DISCARNATE SPIRITS, MANIPULATING ELEMENTAL FORCES, CAN APPEAR IN THE FORM OF FLESH AND BLOOD. DURING THE NEARLY TWO YEARS I SPENT INVESTIGATING EXORCISM FOR ONE OF MY OTHER BOOKS~ I CAME ACROSS A NUMBER OF RELIABLE WITNESSES WHO'D SEEN SUCH APPEARANCES. THE DISCARNATE SPIRITS ... OR ENTITIES OR WHATEVER YOU LIKE TO CALL THEM ... CAN CHOOSE HOW THEY WISH TO BE SEEN. IT MAY BE IN SOME EXTREMELY HORRIFIC FORM IF THEY WISH TO TERRIFY. OR, IF THEIR INTENTIONS ARE BENEVOLENT, THEY CAN APPEAR IN A BEAUTIFUL AND REASSURING FORM. ALL THIS HAS BEEN KNOWN, OF COURSE, FOR GENERATIONS. AFTER ALL, ISN'T THIS PRECISELY HOW THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST MANIFESTED ITSELF IN LIVING HUMAN FORM TO HIS DISCIPLES - AND TO PEOPLE SUCH AS MARY MACDALA - AFTER HIS PHYSICAL DEATH ? SO LET'S GET BACK TO BENDER'S VISITORS. THEY TOLD HIM THEY HAD A LIFE SPAN FIVE TIMES THAT OF THE AVERAGE HUMAN BUT THAT SOME OF THEIR SPECIES LIVE EVEN LONGER. THEY TOLD HIM THAT MANY OTHER PLANETS WERE FAR MORE ADVANCED THAN THIS ONE AND SAID: "EARTH WILL CONSTANTLY BE UNDER SURVEILLANCE BY THESE SYSTEMS .. " DID THEY INTEND TO HARM HUMANS ? HERE, ACCORDING TO BENDER, WAS THE REPLY: "WE HAVE FOUND IT NECESSARY TO FRIGHTEN MANY, BUT WE ALSO HAVE HAD TO RESORT TO GRAVER ACTION, IN SOME CASES WHICH INVOLVED DEATHS AMONG YOUR FELLOW EARTHMEN. WE HAVE CARRIED OFF MANY OF YOUR PEOPLE TO OUR OWN PLANET FOR MEANS OF EXPERIMENTATION AND ALSO TO PLACE SOME OF THEM ON EXHIBIT FOR OUR OWN PEOPLE TO SEE. WE HAVE SPECIMENS OF PEOPLE FROM MANY PLANETS." THEY STRESSED THEIR INTENTIONS WERE FRIENDLY BUT THEY ALSO GAVE THIS WARNING: 'WITH THE PUSH OF A SMALL BUTTON IN OUR SPACE LABORATORY WE CAN DETONATE EVERY BOMB YOU HAVE IN YOUR STOCKPILES ALL OVER THE GLOBE, CAUSING ALMOST TOTAL DESTRUCTION TO YOUR PLANET." WHY WOULD THEY CONSIDER DOING THAT ? THEY WOULD DO, BENDER WAS TOLD, "ONLY IF WE WERE DISCOVERED AND YOUR PEOPLE TRIED TO STOP US WITH WHATEVER MEANS THEY HAD AT THEIR DISPOSAL." THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION - AND MUCH MORE - I AM CONVINCED WAS KNOWN IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE KREMLIN. AND GOVERNMENTS HAVE BEEN DESPERATE TO SUPPRESS IT, TO VIGOROUSLY DENY ITS EXISTENCE, BECAUSE THE WORLD LEADERS KNOW IT COULD CREATE HORRENDOUS PANIC. THAT CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE IS THE REAL CONSPIRACY. NOT THE FICTIONAL ONE WHICH, IN MY ORIGINAL INNOCENCE AND IGNORANCE, I CREATED FOR THE BOOK ALTERNATIVE 3. I DO NOT CONSIDER FOR ONE MOMENT THAT THERE IS ANY REAL REASON TO FEAR THE INTENTIONS OF THE VISITORS WHO, I AM SURE, HAVE COME HERE FROM OTHER PLANETS AND ARE STILL HERE. THEIR INTENTIONS ARE NOWHERE NEAR AS EVIL AS, SAY, THOSE OF THE YUGOSLAVIAN DICTATOR SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC. THEY ARE CURIOUS. THEY ARE INTERESTED. BUT THEY MEAN US NO HARM. FINALLY, I AM DEEPLY SORRY THAT MY NOVEL, ALTERNATIVE 3, SHOULD HAVE CAUSED SUCH ANXIETY. BUT IF IT HAS MADE MANY READERS THINK MORE DEEPLY - AND MORE INTELLIGENTLY - ON THIS SUBJECT OF UFOS AND SPACE TRAVEL - THEN I FEEL IT HAS DONE SOME GOOD. THANK YOU. 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