-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- This is a talk by Leslie Watkins, the author of the fiction book Alternative 3, given in Auckland, New Zealand approx May 1999. He can be contacted where he now lives at PO Box 201, Orewa, Auckland, New Zealand. Ph/fax (09) 426 8399 He is not on the net, but if you want to send a note to him you can email me and I'll fax it to him. I'm also in Auckland.. Les is writing a followup book called Backlash to Alternative 3 as he would like anyone to contact him if they can give him some of the missing TChest of information he got stolen en route to Australia, back in the 70's. He found out that he stumbled upon the truth accidently and received letters from all around the world confirming this. Information about the real Starfleet International, (obtained by fortunate mysterious accident) from military sources can be found, with actual documentation on the real military membership of the crew, and copied, can be found in the book Secrets of the Mojave by Branton. This is a 300 page book written about the alien activities, underground bases, and treaties with the govts and secret societies, abductions and mind control. The sources are a group of govt insiders, including Commander X and it is based on fact.It shows which ETs are here, where they are from, how long they have had bases here and what they are doing with the hybrid program, Area 51 activities and subterranean societies at war.. SECRETS OF THE MOJAVE, By Branton ...(Compiled by "the Group" Edited by Branton.) ISBN 1-881808-44-0 Published in 1999 by Creative Arts and Science Enterprises, Abilene, Texas. USA http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/aa051099.htm?rnk=r&terms=a lternative+3 Info on Alternative 3. This contains the on-line book. Nicky Date: Friday, 30 July 1999 21:49 Subject: Les talk LET ME GET TWO THINGS STRAIGHT RIGHT AWAY I AM NOT - AND NEVER HAVE BEEN - EMPLOYED BY THE CIA. I WAS 15 WHEN ADOLF HITLER DIED IN 1945 AND I'VE NEVER WORKED FOR HIM OR FOR MEMBERS OF HIS NAZI PARTY, BOTH THOSE ACCUSATIONS ... CRAZY AS THEY MAY SOUND.. HAVE BEEN THROWN AT ME BECAUSE I HAPPENED TO WRITE A NOVEL CALLED ALTERNATIVE 3. AS A RESULT OF THAT NOVEL .~. I'VE ALSO BEEN CALLED A CONMAN AND A LIAR. I'VE SEEN ACCUSED OF TRYING TO STIR UP TERROR. I'VE ALSO BEEN PRAISED AROUND THE WORLD - QUITE UNJUSTIFIABLY - FOR MY COURAGE IN DARING TO TELL THE TRUTH. ALL OF THIS BECAUSE OF A BOOK OF FICTION. I'LL COME TO THOSE STRANGE REACTIONS LATER. BUT, FIRST, LET ME GIVE YOU SOME INSIGHT INO THE BOOK WHICH HAS CAUSED SUCH WIDESPREAD CONTROVERSY. ALTERNATIVE 3 IS A NOVEL WHICH I INITIALLY REFUSED TO WRITE. TO EXPLAIN WHY LET ME GIVE YOU A CAPSULED HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE 3. IT BEGAN LIFE, AS MANY OF YOU WILL BE AWARE, AS A JOKE, A HOAX DCOUMENTARY, ON BRITISH TV. I'D HEARD ABOUT IT IN ADVANCE BUT I DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO WATCH IT. I HAD NO INTEREST IN SCIENCE FICTION, SCIENCE FACT OR UFOS IT SIMPLY WASN'T MY SCENE AND, QUITE FRANKLY, IT SOUNDED CORNY AND BORING. SO WHEN I WAS INVITED TO EXPAND IT IMMENSELY INTO A FULL-LENGTH NOVEL, I REFUSED. PARTLY BECAUSE I WASN'T INTERESTED AND PARTLY BCAUSE I WAS BUSY WRITING ANOTHER flOOK AND WITH MY WORK AS A FLEET STREET JOURNALIST. MURRAY POLLINGER, WHO WAS THEN MY AGENT IN LONDON, HAD TO WORK HARD TO GET ME TO CHANGE MY MIND. AND I'M GLAD HE DID BECAUSE IT HAS TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PIECES OF WORK I'VE DONE IN 50 YEARS AS A PROFESSIONAL WRITER. IT WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN IN 1978 AND EVENTUALLY WENT INTO MORE THAN A DOZEN LANGUAGES - INCLUDING JAPANESE AND GREEK. BEFORE LONG, I WAS BEING INUNDATED BY ANGRY PROTESTS. VAST NUMBERS OF READERS STARTED DENOUNCING ME FOR "IRRESPONSIBLE SCAREMONGERING". I ALSO RECEIVED an even greater number of messages praising me for exposing a nightmare conspiracy Involving the governments of America, Russia and Britain. Both reactions astonished me. I'd written a work of fiction yet vast numbers of readers were insistant it was fact. "Insistant is the right word. THE BASIC PREMISE OF ALTERNATIVE 3 IS THAT OUR PLANET IS DOOMED - BECAUSE OF THE GREENHOUSE WARMING - AND THAT AMERICA AND RUSSIA, HAVING SECRETLY CO-OPERATED IN SPACE RESEARCH FOR DECADES, HAD SECRETLY COLONISED MARS FOR SUPERIOR HUMANS - TO ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE. TO SERVICE THE NEEDS OF THESE PEOPLE, DESIGNATED MOVERS AS I CALLED THEM, BATCHES OF UNIMPORTANT, ORDINARY, PEOPLE WERE SNATCHED, BECOMING ZOMBIE SLAVES. THEN THEY WERE TAKEN TO MARS - IN WHAT I CALLED BATCH CONSIGNMENTS - WHERE THEY WERE ALLOWED TO LIVE UNTIL THEY WERE TOO OLD TO BE USEFUL. AND THEN THEY WERE, AS I PUT IT, DISPOSED OF. THEY WERE, TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, KILLED BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT NECESSARY AND WERE MERELY USING FOOD AND OTHE PRECIOUS SUPPLIES ON MARS. THE MOON WAS BEING USED AS A TRANSIT CAMP FOR THE SUPERIOR SELECTED PEOPE, THE SO-CALLED DESIGNATED MOVERS, AND THE THOUSANDS OF BRAIN-WASHED SLAVES. THE WHOLE CONCEPT, I THOUGHT, WAS TOO WAY-OUT, TOO RIDICULOUS, FOR ANYONE TO BELIEVE I WAS TOTALLY WRONG. THE PUBLICATION OF ALTERNATIVE 3 AND HOW, IN ORDER TO HAVE IT PUBLISHED, I'D HAD TO MAKE A CERTAIN CONCESSION - IN FACT, I SAID I'D BEEN FORCED INTO A "RELUCTANT COMPROMISE." WHICH MEANS THAT ON THE BACK COVER - UNDER THE BLURB - WE HAD THE WORD DESCRIBING THE BOOK ... "FICTION." OKAY, SO IT WAS A DOUBLE CON WHICH I'D PUT INTO THE MANUSCRIPT. UNFORTUNATELY, THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS, SPHERE BOOKS, EMBELLISHED THAT DOUBLE CON, WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE, IN A WAY I FELT WAS IRRESPONSIBLE - AND WHICH DID CAUSE A GREAT DEAL OF ANXIETY ACROSS THE WORLD. THE COMPANY'S EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, NICK AUSTIN, HAD CHANGED THE WORD "FICTION" TO "SPECULATION." HE FELT THIS WAS NO MORE THAN A SLICE OF HARMLESS FUN BECAUSE, LIKE ME, HE DIDN'T BELIEVE ANYONE WOULD NOT REALISE THIS WAS A WORK OF FICTION. UNFORTUNATELY ... A DEVIL OF A LOT OF PEOPLE DID NOT REALISE THAT AND THEY SAW THE WORD "SPECULATION" COUPLED WITH MY REFERENCE TO A "RELUCTANT COMPROMISE" AS PROOF THAT THIS WAS FACT. SUDDENLY SPHERE WAS GETTING COMPLAINTS FROM POLITICIANS - AND NOT ONLY THOSE IN LONDON - AND FROM TRADING STANDARDS OFFICERS WHO ACTUALLY THREATENED LEGAL ACTION. FOR SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS THE WORD "SPECULATION" WAS REPLACED BY THE WORD "FICTION' NICK AUSTIN CONFIRMED ALL THIS IN AN ARTICLE HE WROTE FOR THE APRIL ISSUE OF FORTEAN TIMES WHEN HE WROTE: A FIRST INDICATION OF THIS CAME WHEN I HAD A PHONE CALL FROM A MAN WHO INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS "CLANCARTY". HE WAS ACTUALLY THE EARL OF CLANCARTY WHO, UNDER THE NAME BRINSLEY DE LA POER TRENCH HAD WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT UFOS. HE CONGRATULATED ME ON MY "FEARLESS EXPOSE" OF THE "DISGRACEFUL TRUTH" AND SAID: "WE'VE KNOWN A LITTLE ABOUT THIS FOR SOME TIME, OF COURSE, BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL I READ YOUR BOOK THAT I REALISED HOW DEEPLY INVOLVED HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT IS IN THIS DISGRACEFUL CONSPIRACY. I INTEND TO RAISE THIS SHAMEFUL MATTER IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS." NOW MY IMMEDIATE FEELING WAS THAT THIS WAS MARVELLOUS I WHAT FANTASTIC PUBLICITY FOR MY BOOK! BUT THEN I HAD SECOND THOUGHTS. THE EARL OF CLANCARTY SOUNDED A DECENT SORT OF FELLOW AND HE'D LOOK AT ABSOLUTE IDIOT IF HE RAISED THIS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. SO I TRIED TO ASSURE HIM IT WAS MERELY A WORK OF FICTION AND I BEGGED HIM NOT TO BRING IT UP PUBLICLY IN ANY ATTACK ON THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS. HE REFUSED TO BELIEVE ME BUT DID PROMISE, AT MY INSISTANCE, NOT TO RAISE THIS "CONSPIRACY" IN THE LORDS. FOR YEARS AFTERWARDS, HOWEVER, HE KEPT PESTERING ME TO TELL HIM HOW I'D DISCOVERED MY FACTS. "MY DEAR FELLOW ... WE KNOW EACH OTHER WELL ENOUGH NOW, SURELY, SO YOU CAN TELL ME ..." OTHER READERS, HUNDREDS OF THEM FROM AROUND THE WORLD, TOOK SIMILAR LINE. I was denounced as a coward and a liar when I explained that I'd dreamed up the controversial scenario. ONE OF AMERICA'S MORE RESPECTED RESEARCHERS, MAE BRUSSELL, told her weekly radio audience she'd "had the shakes for' about a week" after reading A3 which she described as "the most important book I've read in many, many years." AND I WAS DISMAYED TO REALISED THAT I HAD, INADVERTENTLY, PUT FEAR - TERROR IN FACT - INTO VAST NUMBERS OF ORDINARY READERS. THAT BECAME OBVIOUS ONE NIGHT WHEN I HAD A PHONE CALL AT MY HOME IN DEVON FROM A MAN IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. HE STARTED OFF ON THE SAME TACK AS THE EARL OF CLANCARTY ... ABOUT HOW IMPRESSED HE WAS WITH MY AMAZING INVESTIGATION. I TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT IT WAS FICTION BUT HE REFUSED TO BELIEVE ME. DID HE HAVE THE BOOK THERE ? YES ! LOOK AT THE BACK COVER ... DOES IT SAY "FICTION" ? "YES, BUT YOU HAD TO PUT THAT THERE BECAUSE, OTHERWISE YOU COULDN'T GET THE BOOK PUBLISHED." THAT WAS PARTLY BECAUSE OF A DOUBLE CON WHICH I'D BUILT INTO THIS WORK OF FICTION. I'D DESCRIBED HOW CERTAIN POLITICIANS - WHO, IN FACT, DID NOT EXIST - HAD SOUGHT AN INJUNCTION TO BAN IT. "MY MAIN ATTEMPT TO ENTER, PERSONALLY, INTO THE SPIRIT OF THINGS BACKFIRED BADLY AND REFLECTS ABSOLUTELY NO CREDIT ON ME." I MUST STRESS HERE THAT NICK IS A VERY TALENTED EDITOR AND A THOROUGHLY DECENT MAN. IT WAS JUST THAT, ON THIS OCCASION, HE DID GET CARRIED AWAY. SO, WHEN I ASKED THIS CALLER FROM THE NORTH OF ENGLAND IF HIS COPY OF THE BOOK HAD THE WORD "FICTION" ON THE BACK COVER, I WAS HOPING HE DID NOT HAVE THE FIRST EDITION. FORTUNATELY, HE DIDN'T. HIS COPY HAD THE WORD "FICTION." BUT THAT DIDN'T SATISFY HIM. HE STILL PREFERRED TO BELIEVE MY DOUBLE-CON AND HE WENT ON: "WHEN YOU WROTE THIS BOOK," HE SAID, "YOU HAD THE COURAGE TO TELL THE TRUTH. BUT NOW YOU'RE FRIGHTENED TO ADMIT IT'S THE TRUTH. YOU'RE FRIGHTENED BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN GOT AT BY THE CIA AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE." THE WAS QUITE STRANGE REALLY BECAUSE BECAUSE IT HAS SINCE BEEN SUGGESTED BY AT LEAST ONE WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN, THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN PAID BY THE CIA TO WRITE THIS BOOK. I'LL COME BACK TO HIM SHORTLY. I THEN DISCOVERED MY CALLER HAD A PARTICULAR REASON FOR BEING SO TAKEN WITH MY BOOK. A COUSIN OF HIS HAD DISAPPEARED WITHOUT TRACE AND NOW, HAVING READ ALTERNATIVE 3, HE WAS CONVINCED THAT HIS COUSIN HAD BEEN SNATCHED AND WAS NOW CONDEMNED TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE AS A SLAVE ON MARS. AS I SAY, I DID MY BEST TO REASSURE HIM. IT WAS FICTION, FICTION, FICTION. THEN HE SAID: "WHAT ABOUT BRIAN PENDLEBURY ?" HE THREW ME FOR A MOMENT. "PENDLEBURY ? OH ... YOU MEAN THE ELECTRONICS EXPERT FROM MANCHESTER WHO NOW LIVES ON MARS." "YES -ABOUT HIM " "DON'T WORRY ABOUT HIM HE DOESN'T EXIST. HE NEVER HAS EXISTED. HE'S JUST A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION." "RIGHT ... NOW I KNOW YOU'RE LYING. I'VE SPOKEN TO HIS FATHER I'VE SPOKEN TO BRIAN PENDLEBURY'S FATHER." "WHAT I HOW DID YOU FIND HIS FATHER ?" "YOU SAY IN THE BOOK THAT HIS FATHER IS A RETIRED MILKMAN CALLED DENNIS PENDLEBURY AND THAT HE LIVES IN ONE OF THE SHABBIER SUBURBS OF MANCHESTER ..." "WELL .. YES." "THERE'S ONLY ONE DENNIS PENDLEBURY IN THE MANCHESTER TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. SO I RANG HIM UP. I SPOKE TO BRIAN PENDLEBURY' S FATHER." NOW I WAS TOTALLY INTRIGUED. "AND WHAT DID HE SAY." "IT WERE DISGUSTING ... YOU'RE FRIGHTENED ... I CAN TELL THAT BY YOUR VOICE. BUT THAT MAN ... THAT MAN IS SO FRIGHTENED HE WON'T EVEN ADMIT HE'S GONE A SON CALLED BRIAN." I LEARNED LATER THAT FOR MONTHS POOR MR PENDLEBURY WAS THEN PLAGUED BY THIS IDIOT - DETERMINED TO WEAR HIM DOWN UNTIL HE TOLD THE TRUTH. "YOU'VE GOT TO TELL WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON BRIAN WHO LIVES ON MARS." THIS CALLER WAS TYPICAL, AS I SAY, OF AN AMAZING NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WROTE OR TELEPHONED FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD. I HAD NEVER INTENDED ANYONE TO THINK OF THIS BOOK AS BEING ANYTHING BUT A WORK OF FICTION BUT THERE WERE A NUMBER OP REASONS WHY SO MANY READERS DID CONSIDER IT TO BE THE NIGHTMARE TRUTH THEN I BEGAN TO REALISE, TO MY ASTONISHMENT, THAT THERE WERE DISTURBING ELEMENTS OF TRUTH IN WHAT I HAD WRITTEN. CERTAIN EVENTS WHICH I HAD IMAGINED HAD, IN FACT, REALLY HAPPENED. THAT SEEMED OBVIOUS FROM EVIDENCE SUPPLIED TO ME BY A VAST NUMBER OF HIGHLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. THEY INCLUDED SCIENTISTS, AIRLINE PILOTS, UFO RESEARCHERS OF REPUTE. AND, HAVING READ THEIR ACCOUNTS - PARTICULARLY ABOUT FLYING SAUCER COVER-UPS - AND INTERVIEWED MANY AT LENGTH, I BECAME CONVINCED AND I STILL AM TOTALLY CONVINCED THAT, WITHOUT REALISING IT I HAD ACCIDENTALLY TRESPASSED INTO A RANGE OF TOP-LEVEL TRUTHS. FACTS WERE - AND ARE - BEING SUPPRESSED BY GOVERNMENTS. I'LL BE ELABORATING ON THAT THOUGHT LATER. ANOTHER REASON SO MANY READERS BELIEVE MY BOOK WAS FACT WAS THE STYLE IN WHICH IT IS WRITTEN - AS A SERIOUS JOURNALISTIC INVESTIGATION. IT OPENS WITH THESE WORDS: "NO NEWSPAPER HAS YET SECURED THE TRUTH BEHIND THE OPERATION KNOWN AS ALTERNATIVE 3. INVESTIGATIONS BY JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN BLOCKED - BY GOVERNMENTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON CURTAIN. AMERICA AND RUSSIA ARE RUTHLESSLY OBSESSED WITH GUARDING THEIR SHARED SECRET AND THIS OBSESSION, AS WE CAN NOW PROVE, HAS MADE THEM PARTNERS IN MURDER. "HOWEVER, DESPITE THIS INTENSIVE SECURITY, FRAGMENTS OF INFORMATION HAVE BEEN MADE PUBLIC. OFTEN THEY ARE RELEASED INADVERTENTLY - BY EXPERTS WHO DO NOT APPRECIATE THEIR SINISTER SIGNIFICANCE - AND THESE FRAGMENTS, IN ISOLATION, MEAN LITTLE. BUT WHEN JIGSAWED TOGETHER THEY FORM A DEFINITE PATTERN A PATTERN WHICH APPEARS TO EMPHASISE THE ENORMITY OF THIS CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. ANOTHER REASON WAS THAT I USED A TECHNIQUE WHICH IS QUITE COMMON IN FICTION - MIXING INTERNATIONALLY-KNOWN FACTS WITH IMAGINARY MATERIAL. I USED IMAGINARY QUOTES FROM IMAGINARY POLITICIANS, SCIENTISTS AND ASTRONAUTS AND MIXED IN THEM WITH GENUINE QUOTES FROM GENUINE POLITICIANS, SCIENTISTS AND ASTRONAUTS. FOR INSTANCE, MANY OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT JIMMY CARTER, IN 1973 WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA, FILED TWO REPORTS ON HIS UFO SIGHTINGS - ONE TO THE INTERNATIONAL UFO BUREAU AND THE OTHER TO THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA. HE "I DON'T LAUGH AT PEOPLE ANY MORE " WHEN THEY SAY THEY'VE SEEN UFOS BECAUSE I'VE SEEN ONE MYSELF." BUT BY THE TIME HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HE REFUSED TO ADMIT HE'D SEEN A UFO AND SAID: "I THINK IT WAS A LIGHT BECKONING ME TO RUN IN THE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY ELECTION." WHY, I ASKED, THIS CHANGE OF ATTITUDE ? BECAUSE BY THEN HE HAD BEEN BRIEFED ON ALTERNATIVE 3 ? SOME OF YOU, SIMILARLY, MAY RECALL BUZZ ALDRIN, AFTER HIS MOON WALK, COMPLAINING BITTERLY THAT HE'D BEEN USED AS A TRAVELLING SALESMAN. I USED THAT COMMENT AND THE FACT THAT THAT HE WAS LATER ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL WITH "EMOTIONAL DEPRESSION". "TRAVELLING SALESMAN" ? THAT'S AN ODD CHOICE OF WORDS IT ? 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