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From: Don Ecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thursday, 24 February 2000 08:42
Subject: [the_octopus] JFK Conspiracy
From: Don Ecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
One of history's longest (current) conspiracies is concerned with
the murder of the American President, John F. Kennedy. In the UFO
field starting about 11 or 12 years ago, the Kennedy
assassination was mixed with the UFO enigma by some very
unscrupulous (and I used this term lightly) researchers. I had a
front row seat in this mishmash, and at times I had a researchers
part in this story. The following is the two part series I had
published in the U.K.'s magazine, Fortean Times. I present this
for your information.
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For Fortean Times-1999;
JFK-The Driver DID IT! Revisited
By Don Ecker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
November 22, 1998 marked the 35th Anniversary of one of the
darkest days in American History.
Not that America has not had many dark days during the 20th
Century, but on this occasion the
will of the American people was thwarted by a murderer's bullet
fired from ambush. That date re-
enforced the idea that "it can happen here" and tore away the
distinctly American illusion that we
all wore "white hats." This was truly the end of the illusion of
innocence for Americans for the
rest of the century. Vietnam, Watergate, the Senator Church
Hearings on the CIA, the October
Surprise, Iran-Contra, the scandals and shock to sensibilities
continued but the assassination of
President Kennedy is viewed as the "jump-gate" for the end of
innocence.
No other single act of criminality has produced as many theories
of conspiracy as the assassination
of JFK. For 35 years it has produced more books, talk shows and
even Congressional Hearings,
than almost any other conspiracy subject. Recently in the United
States it once again appeared on
national news because more secret files have been opened. The
public stance of the government is
still holding to the single assassin theory, but not many believe
this. But just 10 years ago another
theory was pitched as fact to the world and for several years it
was to create a firestorm unlike
what many would have believed. It tied in not only a government
conspiracy to murder a
President but also tied in several other areas of esoteric
research. It included UFOs, the Illuminati,
the Masons, the Presidents Limousine driver, the U.S. Navy and
much-much more! What is even
more unbelievable to me is that I would become a part of this
story, and for 10 years I have been
trying to tell this story to the world at large. Why? Well the
short answer is that many people still
believe the disinformation that was purveyed. Oh, did I mention
what this disinformation was?
The Secret Service Driver that drove President John F. Kennedy in
Dallas, Texas on November
22, 1963, fired the fatal head shot into JFK. The first version
had him using a nickel plated .45
caliber automatic pistol, later this was changed to an airgun
firing a pellet filled with toxic shellfish
poison. Confused yet? Well, I did say this was an interesting
story, didn't I?
The genesis of this story actually begins in the dawn of the
personal computer revolution. In late
1985 a young man named Jim Speiser became interested in the
personal computer. At that time
the internet was virtually reserved for the real "computer
geeks". Everyone else used public
bulletin board services.. Almost without exception all BBS's in
those early days catered to interest
in and about computers. Speiser had a different idea, one that
basically can be credited with
helping put UFOs and other oddities on the internet. Speiser,
living in Fountain Hills, Arizona,
decided to operate a bulletin board but his would be geared to
the paranormal. Beginning on
January 1, 1986, the Paranet Bulletin Board system would set the
new computer operating public
on its ear.
Speiser attended the MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) symposium in
July, 1987, held in
Washington D.C. At that time the recently released MJ-12 papers
were the current flavor of the
month. Suddenly the UFO subject, after years of neglect had
become respectable. According to
Speiser, one of the participants he met there was a very quiet
John Lear. Lear was the son of Lear
Jet founder, "The Stormy Genius" Wm. Bill Lear. What made John
Lear an exciting addition to
this gathering of the UFO faithful was his biography as a pilot
and former contract employee of
the Central Intelligence Agency. Holding every airman certificate
issued by the FAA, winning
numerous speed records in the Lear Jet, flying for a CIA contract
airline during the Vietnam War,
Lear, in a very low key way, brought a level of excitement and
desperately needed respectability
to the UFO field.
In December, 1987 Lear called up Jim Speiser and informed him of
a paper he had just written.
He sent a copy to Speiser and asked him if he would upload it to
the Paranet BBS system. He
also warned Speiser "If you don't get a call from the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations
upon transmitting the letter, I will buy you dinner at Caesar's
Palace." Speiser did not get a call
from the Air Force, but perhaps he should have. The Lear document
was enough to scare hell out
of anyone at first glance.
Dated December 29, 1987 the Lear Paper began this way. "Note to
the Press: The Government of
the United States continues to rely on your personal and
professional gullibility to suppress the
information contained herein. Your cooperation over the past 40
years has exceeded our wildest
expectations and we salute you!" After this small tidbit Lear
proceeded with "..we must face the
shocking facts. The "horrible truth" the government has been
hiding from us over 40 years.
Unfortunately, the "horrible truth" is far more horrible than the
government ever imagined." What
was this horrible truth that Lear alleged? He stated that the
U.S. Government formed an unholy
alliance with the alien presence, and in exchange for allowing
the aliens to mutilate livestock and
the occasional human, and to abduct unsuspecting humans, the
aliens provided advanced alien
technology to the U.S. There was quite a bit more to the
document. By this time the MJ-12
papers were general knowledge through out the UFO community. Lear
included the MJ-12
Group as the all around governing body keeping its eye on the
alien presence. According to Lear
MJ-12 at first thought they made a good deal but as several more
crashed "saucers" were
retrieved, MJ-12 "found out" that the aliens were implanting 3 mm
devices in the nasal cavity of
abductee's. The aliens were also "programming" abductee's to
carry out post hypnotic
instructions at some point in the future, that some abducted
humans were being "used as
biological material" and food sources. Some humans were murdered
by the aliens because they
presented a "threat" to alien activity, and last but not least,
the aliens were conducting genetic
experiments on humans and using human females to "cross-breed"
alien-human hybrids.
Later Lear was to explain that he became interested in the UFO
subject after speaking to several
U.S. Air Force friends that witnessed a UFO landing at the
British/American Base at Bentwaters-
Woodbridge in 1980. He claimed that prior to this he never had an
interest in the subject,
although his father, William Lear, is on record as believing that
UFOs were interplanetary. But
with this released document now on the nation-wide BBS system,
and soon to circle the globe,
the circus was gearing up and the UFO research community was
taking a nose dive into
sensationalism and what is now called the darkside. This is the
beginning of what promised to be
years of disinformation and factionalism that still divides the
UFO field and its researchers.
Soon on Paranet and then on the Compuserve Information Network
Lear was being questioned
by computer users all over the United States. When this writer
was first exposed to the Lear paper
after it appeared on Paranet, I telephoned Lear and spoke to him
for several hours. Within a few
days he sent me a large package of his material to support his
hypothesis. Included in the package
was a video tape with a number of programs which included Linda
Howe's documentary on cattle
mutilations and a Japanese astronomers video of a "disc"
overflying the Lunar surface.
One point that Lear stated as truth was the "fact" that these
aliens were residing in underground
bases. Two areas pinpointed were near Dulce, New Mexico and Area
51 in Nevada. Later in 1988
Lear sent me newsclippings of a military project that was in the
process of developing an earth
penetrating nuclear missile which publically was to "take out"
Soviet underground command
structures, but which Lear claimed was actually a defense measure
to destroy the alien bases. The
plot was thickening but now he was coming under very intense
questioning by not only computer
users, but others in the research field.
As the year of 1988 moved along Lear began to garner lots of
publicity. George Knapp an
investigative journalist with KLAS Television, Channel 8, in Las
Vegas, had Lear guest on his
weekly television program. Lear also was being interviewed by
various newspapers in the western
and southwestern part of the U.S. in regards to his hypothesis.
He had been garnering quite a bit
of notoriety. Now we must introduce two more individuals to this
story.
In 1986 Lars C. Hansson, a investigative journalist with years of
interest in the JFK assassination
met two men named Perry Adams and David Evans. Adams and Evans
had been working on a
theory that the assassin who fired the fatal head shot into
Kennedy had been Kennedy's own
limousine driver, Secret Service Agent William Greer! At first
incredulous, Hansson helped
Adams and Evans attempt to enhance a copy of the Zapruder film.
The film was already a 4th or
5th generation copy. They "washed the color" out of the copy in
an attempt to enhance the
contrasts. After proceeding to view the tape, they were amazed
that just at the moment Kennedy
was hit in the head, driving his body back and to the side, what
appeared to look like a pistol
flashed by the Secret Service passenger, Roy Kellerman with the
arm "holding the gun" by driver
William Greer.
Looking for financing to extend their research, Hansson read
about Lear and his UFO interest in
a newspaper article. Looking up Lear, thinking that he was heir
to the Lear fortune, Hansson gave
a copy of the video tape to Lear in the hope that Lear would
assist in financing their research.
Hansson and Adams and Evans had rented a production studio to
clean the tape up and placed
titles and narration on it by Hansson. Now called "The Truth
Betrayed, Dallas Revisted", the
video was very compelling at first view.
The last character to enter part one of this story in 1988 is
Milton William "Bill" Cooper. All
during 1988 Lear was coming under increasing questioning and even
in some cases "attack" on
Paranet and Compuserve. Members of the UFO research community
were also quite divided over
his paper. There were a number of errors in Lears paper that
people picked up on, such as calling
the crucifixion site of Christ the "Mount of Olives" instead of
Calvary. It was to later come out
much of Lear's information about the weirder aspects of his paper
came from one "Paul
Bennewitz", a name that would figure greatly into the overall
"disinforming of UFOlogy".
However Cooper showed up on Paranet in the summer of 1988 with a
story about a sighting he
had while serving as a U.S. Navy sailor onboard a submarine, the
USS Tiru in 1966. The file,
called Tiru-1.ufo created quite a stir. The Paranet
administrator, Jim Speiser, was very
complementary of Cooper bringing this to the attention of the
user base. Cooper allied himself
with Lear stating that from his own "insider knowledge", he could
VERIFY 50% of Lears
hypothesis. Later Cooper claimed Lear was 150% correct.
Just several days after uploading the submarine story, Cooper
resurfaced on Paranet and claimed
that he had been "fired" from his $75,000.00 a year job because
of the release of his UFO
information and having spoken with UFO researcher Stanton
Friedman. Then over the next two
months he began uploading a number of files dealing with the "top
secret" UFO information he
claimed to have been privy to. Files such as GUIDANCE.DOC,
WARNING.PBB, and others
that claimed Cooper had inside knowledge from his U.S. Navy
service. Cooper also took a very
intense and supportive role in regards to Lear and his
information.
In Coopers WARNING.PPB file he claimed to have held a Top Secret
SI Clearance, and after
leaving the Navy Cooper claimed to have been involved in
intelligence work until 1980. In these
early files he used the same code words and project names that
William Moore and Jaime
Shandera did in their MJ-12 release. It was only in the very late
part of 1988 that Cooper began to
change and vary these names and claim that Moore and Shandera
were "agents of
disinformation.".
In October of 1988 a much awaited television program aired in a
two hour special. It was called
"UFO Coverup Live" and was hosted by television star Mike
Farrell. William Moore and Jaime
Shandera appeared in this broadcast in reference to MJ-12, and
included were interviews with two
alleged government intelligence officers identified as FALCON and
CONDOR. These two
unnamed men were electronically altered to conceal their
identity. However what they had to say
was quite inflammatory. They claimed that there WAS an
extraterrestrial presence on earth, and
some E.T. aliens were "guests" of the American government. After
this broadcast, and over the
next several days Cooper uploaded (through this author) his new
position paper, in which he
totally reversed all his previous positions. Much later Cooper
claimed he was "testing" the UFO
researchers knowledge by using the incorrect code names earlier.
In November of 1988 I was invited to Las Vegas by John Lear to
see and hear him address the
Association of Former Intelligence Officers chapter in Las Vegas.
Lear was going to speak about
his UFO hypothesis. Prior to this, Lear took me to his home to
view much of his material. Prior to
his speech Lear took me into his den to view a film that would
"shake me up" according to Lear.
Once in his den (which seemed more of a shrine to aviation and
the war-Viet Nam and the Middle
East) he offered me a drink and proceeded to play "The Truth
Betrayed; Dallas Revisited". At
first glance I was simply amazed to see what appeared to be the
driver suddenly with a gun in his
hand as Kennedy is struck in the head by the fatal gunshot. Lear
then went on to tell me that part
of the reason Kennedy was murdered was because he had threatened
to "tell the truth about
UFOs, and MJ-12 decided to get rid of him!" Lear played this for
the retired intelligence audience
the next day, and then asked the audience "who would have
assisted with the assassination if you
had been ordered to?" I was shocked when 4 in the audience raised
their hands. Women were
among the "volunteer's.
I asked Lear where he got the tape but he remained very coy with
me. He simply said it was
through a contact. It was not until the end of 1989 that I
discovered Lars Hansson, and by then
the damage was done. You see, in October of 1988 Lear sent a copy
of this tape to Cooper who
was soon to appropriate it into his "dog and pony show" and wow
audiences at $15.00 and
$20.00 per head, while selling it at $25.00 to $30.00 per tape.
All the while telling audiences that
as a Navy enlisted man in 1972 he saw secret Navy documents that
detailed how this Secret
Service Agent killed the President.
End of Part One
Part Two "Did the Driver Do It?"
by Don Ecker
As 1988 drew to a close, American UFOlogy was turning into a
shambles. A firestorm had ignited
concerning the claims and counter claims of the MJ 12 documents
and the Lear paper. The debate
over the legitimacy of both MJ 12 and the Lear document had often
degenerated into little more
than name calling and recriminations.
In October of 1988 a two hour television program, "UFO
Coverup-Live" aired in the United
States. Hosted by Mike Farrell of MASH, this live show heated up
the debate up even more.
William Moore and Jaime Shandera, of MJ 12 fame, introduced two
men in electronic blackout,
claiming that they were American intelligence agents. Nicknamed
"Falcon and Condor" they
claimed that the American Government were "hosting" alien
visitor's from another star system.
One of the most memorable moments of this broadcast were when
"Falcon" claimed the "grey
aliens" liked strawberry ice cream.
Within days of the broadcast William Cooper sent to this writer
his critique of the television
program where I uploaded it to the ParaNet Rho BBS. He claimed
that the UFO Coverup Live
program was an elaborate disinformation scheme perpetrated in
concert with the MJ 12
documents. Cooper was now claiming that the MJ 12 documents were
a hoax designed to mislead
UFO researchers off into disinformation as to conceal the real
UFO information..
When William Cooper first made his appearance on the ParaNet BBS
system he claimed that he
could "confirm" at least 50% of the claims of John Lear. Lear,
son of Lear Jet founder "Bill" Lear
had made his debut with an outrageous paper that Lear called the
"John Lear Hypothesis" which
included allegations that the U.S. Government entered into an
alliance with ET's and in an
exchange for advanced alien technology, the U.S. government
"allowed" the ET's to abduct
unwilling human subjects for experimentation and in some cases
homicide to extract biological
material. Now Cooper was claiming that he could verify Lear's
paper 150 percent!
On October 26, 1988 in a public position statement on the ParaNet
Alpha BBS, ParaNet founder
Jim Speiser issued a public statement that ejected John Lear and
William Cooper from the
ParaNet system. The four page document explained Speiser's
reasons which listed in detail
William Coopers contradictions and obfuscations such as; "The
documents you are looking for
are for the most part labeled TOP SECRET MAJIC-RESTRICTED DATA"--
Bill Cooper,
August 22, 1988.
"EVERY DOCUMENT YOU SEE WHICH USES...'MAJIC' IS A FRAUD!"-- Bill
Cooper,
October 15, 1988.
"The documents produced by Mr. Moore et al are photographic
copies of genuine documents
which were procured at great risk."-- Bill Cooper, August 22,
1988. "I CAN PROVE
BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT TO ANYONE THAT MOST OF THE INFORMATION
RELEASED BY WILLIAM MOORE, ET AL...ARE OBVIOUS AND DELIBERATE
FORGERIES.".-- Bill Cooper, October 15, 1988.
Speiser also mentioned he had been contacted by a casual user of
ParaNet named Jeff Felix who
contacted him and requested a meeting. A young man of about 24
years of age meant Speiser in a
Tempe, Az. restaurant and proceeded to relay a bizarre tale of
being a NSA cryptology
technician, and while "fooling around" on the NSA computer and
stumbled across the Majestic
and Aquarius files, "the whole ball of wax!" Several days later
Speiser had another chat with Felix
and asked several questions he had been given by several people
with an intelligence background.
Felix failed this simple test but mentioned something called
"Project X-calibur" (sic). Speiser
spoke with Cooper who told him he had heard of it, but that it
was very top secret and he had no
more information on it. Later that day Cooper called Speiser back
and to Speiser's surprise told
him that Project Excalibur was real, and it was a project by
MJ-12 to extract technology from the
aliens. As Speiser was to later say "My thinking on Cooper and
Felix at this time began to center
on the thought that the two of them were scamming me behind my
back. I had visions of having
ParaNet become a home for unwed paranoids."
Not to come out until much later during an interview with John
Lear was the fact that in October
Lear sent Cooper a large package of information that included the
information that Lear had
collected on his research into UFOs. The information consisted of
Lears paper, writings from
"Val Valerian" aka John Grace, a then U.S.A.F. active duty NCO
with a UFO interest. Lear also
sent Cooper a copy of a tape of the John F. Kennedy assassination
that Lars Hansson had given
him when Hansson thought that Lear might help finance his JFK
research with the proviso that
Lear not give it out to anyone. This ultimately proved to be
catastrophic.
In April of 1989, KLAS television journalist George Knapp
presented a multi-part series on UFOs
which shot the TV station's ratings through the roof. In one
segment Knapp interviewed a man in
electronic blackout only identified as "Dennis" who claimed to
have worked at the super secret
site known as "Area 51" but also in an even more secret site
called S-4. What he claimed however
was so fantastic that the station was to get calls from all over
the world, because this anonymous
person claimed he worked on "real flying saucers," alien or ET
spaceships! Later this would
prove to be the enigmatic "Bob Lazar," but at the time no one
except Knapp and the security
people working for Area 51 knew who he was. Knapp also did a
weekly local show called "On
The Record" and had already interviewed John Lear. Lear had shown
Knapp the "JFK tape" and
Knapp had Lear come back for another show, but this time Bill
Cooper also appeared. While on
the air, Knapp asked Lear about the tape and what it appeared to
show, and then asked Cooper if
he knew anything about it. Lear later remarked that up to that
point (contrary to what Cooper
later claimed) Cooper had never much mentioned anything about the
tape.
However on this day Cooper said that not only did he know of it,
but had read about it in secret
Naval files while he was attached to the U.S. Navy's Briefing
Team in Hawaii.
In Las Vegas at this time a radio program hosted by Billy Goodman
aired Monday thru Friday on
KVEG radio. Broadcast from a powerhouse 50,000 watt station,
Goodman's show was heard all
over the western United States. As more public interest was
displayed on the subject of UFOs,
Goodman's program began to take a decided interest in UFOs. Both
Lear and Cooper appeared
on Goodman's program. The sensational nature of their information
further heated public interest.
In May of 1989, Lear and Cooper were asked to appear on a tabloid
television program, "PM
Magazine." The TV crew showed up at Lear's home to interview both
Lear and Cooper. Later as
this writer detailed in a series for UFO Magazine, "The
Whistleblowers" Expose on Bill Cooper,
Lear heard Cooper telling the interviewer that while he was on
the Naval briefing team in Hawaii,
he saw the "O.H. Krill" documents in secret files. These
documents were sent to me by John Lear
in his original package of material in early 1988. I knew that
the documents were written by one
John Grace, a then active duty U.S. Air force NCO who had a UFO
interest. The name Krill was
an inside joke taken from a late 1950's case where the U.S. Navy
had interviewed a woman who
claimed to channel an alien named Cyrll. Lear and Grace made up
the initials O.H. out of thin air.
Grace did not want his name on these papers because he was still
in the Air Force and did not
want adverse publicity. The actual O.H. Krill papers were only a
little over a year old at the time
of this television program and would have been totally impossible
for Cooper to have seen them in
1972 or 1973. Lear said "When I heard Bill tell the interviewer
he saw the Krill papers while he
was in the Navy I motioned him over and asked him what in the
hell are you doing? He said what
do you mean? I said Bill, John Grace and I did the Krill papers.
We named them after a 1950's
case, and we pulled the O.H. out of thin air. Well, Cooper
insisted he saw them in the Navy. That
is when I really began to wonder about Cooper."
During 1989 John Lear was the state director for Nevada for the
Mutual UFO Network
(MUFON). He hosted MUFON's 1989 symposium in Las Vegas, which
proved to be one of the
most hotly debated proceedings in MUFON's existence. By June of
1989 Lear's paper on the
"evil grey aliens," Bill Moore and the MJ-12 paper, and now
Coopers twist and spin on both
subjects caused a rift throughout all of American UFOlogy. At the
very last minute, Walt Andrus,
International Director of MUFON, dis-invited John Lear to speak
at his own event. Lear as state
director, had invited Bill Cooper, Bill English and this writer
to all speak about our own research.
Because of the nature of Lear, Cooper and English's papers, MUFON
and Andrus had decided to
delete the Sunday event. By Saturday July 1st there was an open
revolt within MUFON. Lear had
threatened to take his speakers down the street to another
location, and if he had most of the
conference would have followed him. However on Saturday July 1 an
even more outrageous
event was in the making. William Moore's speech ran over two
hours in length and had the
audience calling for his blood. Moore admitted that he had worked
hand in fist with military
intelligence during the 1980s, in an attempt to "get on the
inside" of the military's knowledge on
UFOs. During his speech he admitted participating in the
disinforming of Paul Bennewitz, a
civilian UFO investigator. Bennewitz later had to be hospitalized
for severe mental problems.
When Moore's talk was complete he refused questions and rushed
from the room leaving the
conference and the proceedings in turmoil.
Lear seemed under severe stress and was mostly uncommunicative.
Later he was to say, "Bill
Cooper came to my house on Friday before the talk and was
drinking heavily. He demanded to
know who I was working for. He said he was afraid that either I
or someone else was setting him
up. The more he drank the louder he became and started slamming
his hand down on my desk.
His girlfriend was there and I thought she might try to temper
him but did nothing. He then told
me that anyone that tried to cross him would regret it. I moved
to the other side of my desk, not
sure what he might do. Finally his girlfriend led him out and
that was the last time I spoke to him
until after the talks on Sunday."
On Sunday July 2, 1989 the "alternative" MUFON event began. Lear
spoke first and then
Cooper. By this time Cooper had refined his talk and for the most
part left the audience in shock.
He told them of a vast U.S. government conspiracy that dwarfed
anything before or after. The
government had recovered dozens of UFO crashes and alien pilots,
the aliens were abducting
people and killing them. The U.S. has a "secret" space program
where the U.S. and Russians and
the aliens have secret joint bases on Mars and the Moon. Cooper
even claimed there were areas
on the Moon where there was free standing water and vegetation.
"Man can walk on the Moon
with just an airpack," Cooper confidently told the audience. Then
Cooper told the audience that
President Kennedy was murdered by his secret service driver as
part of a huge conspiracy plot,
and he read about it in his secret Navy documents.
The next eruptions in 1989 happened close together. In November,
Cooper conducted a lecture at
Hollywood High School, where the "Dallas Revisted" tape was the
main draw. About a thousand
people attended the event. Cooper was now a regular on the "Billy
Goodman Happening"
broadcast out of Las Vegas. AND...George Knapp did another series
on UFOs for KLAS TV
and "Bob Lazar" came out of the closet! This created a firestorm
that literally circled the globe
within days.
Lazar claimed to be a physicist who had worked on recovered alien
spacecraft at a site at the now
infamous "Area 51," within another site called S-4. Knapp
interviewed not only Lazar but John
Lear, Whitley Strieber and Stanton Friedman. Bill Cooper appeared
briefly. However within days,
Billy's "Happening" had Lazar and his very good friend Gene Huff
on several times. Suddenly the
"Happening" became a well known radio program within the U.S.
With the appearance of Lazar
and a number of call ins by Bill Cooper, and Coopers unqualified
endorsement of Lazar, Cooper's
message suddenly hit nation wide.
Following the MUFON conference Cooper hired an agency that began
booking speaking
engagements for him. He also met two men with very strong
Hollywood credentials and formed
a partnership with him. Hollywood movie star Michael Callan and
Callan's very close friend,
Douglas Deane. Callan and Deane heard Cooper on the radio and
wanted to meet him. They felt
his message was important and wanted to "package" him the
Hollywood way. Callan set up a
number of speaking engagements and the three of them signed a
contract forming "Need To
Know Productions."
By January 1990, Cooper was one of the hottest tickets on the UFO
scene. After numerous
appearances on the "Billy Goodman Happening" an extravaganza was
pushed with Cooper as the
main attraction at the Showboat Hotel in Las Vegas. Cooper was
billed as the "most
knowledgeable UFO researcher in the world today!" A production
put on by Michael Callan and
Doug Deane, the Cooper presentation catered to the conspiracy and
paranoia then rampant in the
UFO field.
Near the end of the lecture the Dallas Revisted tape was run. The
sound track with Lars Hansson
narrating was cut, and Cooper provided all the "details."
Claiming that John Lear got the tape and
he had no idea where it originated from, he had searched for it
for 17 years. Cooper also
mentioned the "Project Excalibur" device that he claimed to have
read about in secret briefing
documents during 1972-73.
During my investigation on Cooper I tracked down this document to
John Lear who received it
from Bob Lazar in September, 1988. Lear sent a copy to Cooper in
October 1988. This seemed to
be another point to suggest that Cooper was "borrowing and
adding" to the overall conspiracy as
time moved along.
During the early months of 1990, George Knapp and management at
KLAS TV decided to do
another UFO special during the "sweeps wars" (where television
stations and networks attempt to
out do one another to garner ratings.) By now, many researchers
and media were asking some
very hard questions of Bill Cooper, especially concerning the
Kennedy tape. George Knapp had
interviewed John Lear again, and Lear told the Cooper story
involving "O.H.Krill" and how Lear
was shocked and began to wonder if Cooper was for real. Knapp
also planned to do another
interview with Bob Lazar and his information.
However a rival TV station had hired private investigators to
follow Knapp and Lazar around and
report back anything questionable. A private investigator
followed Lazar to an illegal brothel
where he seemed to have a relationship with the "Madam." Knapp
found out about the rival
station and convinced Lazar to go public first and report why he
was involved with an illegal
brothel. According to Lazar's interview, he knew the Madam and
she had hired him to set up a
computer and software for her. Unfortunately for Lazar, Las Vegas
was in the middle of a local
political campaign year, and the District Attorney saw an
opportunity to garner some notoriety.
In the interim, Cooper found out about Lear's admission on camera
and knew that Lear and Lazar
were friends. Cooper quickly embarked on a pre-emptory strike
against Lear, Lazar, and George
Knapp by claiming on his computer BBS that Lazar had been
arrested on drug charges, and that
Lear and Knapp were involved.
Lazar has a hobby of working with "jet cars," and would often
mention his speed shop in
connection with his own jet vehicle. Cooper, seeing a way to "get
back" at everyone he thought
had wronged him, said Lazar, Lear, et. al. were using the shop as
a front to manufacture and deal
illegal drugs. This was a complete fabrication, and at this point
that this author began an
investigation and expose on William Cooper.
Lars Hansson had made several phone calls to Cooper asking him to
refrain from showing the
Dallas Revisted tape but Cooper refused. Cooper now began to call
Hansson a disinformation
agent and government asset. He also claimed John Lear was an
agent, along with Bill Moore,
Stanton Friedman, this writer or anyone who happen to disagree
with him. Hansson confronted
Cooper on the Billy Goodman Happening Radio show in July of 1990.
By this time I had
published my first expose on Cooper's material when he began
leaving late night calls on our
answering machine. I was then contacted by Douglas Deane and
Michael Callan. Cooper, in an
attempt to break his contract with Callan and Deane and keep all
the profits himself badgered
them to release the master tapes to Cooper. At 4:00 AM on the
morning of July 28, 1990, Deane
began receiving a series of 6 telephone calls from a very drunken
William Cooper. Using a series
of fake voices, Cooper threatened Deane's life and personal
property if he did not release the
tapes to Cooper. That early morning Michael Callan also received
a series of calls from Cooper
claiming he had bodyguards looking out for him (Cooper) and that
"Callan better do the right
thing and hand over the tapes." Cooper at the time was living
within a few miles of Deane in
Arizona. Both Deane and Callan called and reported this to the
police. Deane was concerned
and called a friend to spend the rest of the night with. Then in
his late 60's, he had no intention of
being there if a drunk Cooper came to his house. That morning,
Cooper did arrive at Deane's
home and Deane's gardener witnessed Cooper attempt to pry his
back door open. Later that day
Deane arrived home and found all four automobile tires slashed on
his second car.
Shortly afterwards, Cooper distanced himself from the UFO field.
He had burned all bridges in the
field, and most of American researchers found his information
unreliable at best or deliberately
twisted to support his own paranoid conspiratorial claims at
worst. Time and again, the "driver
shooting JFK" tape was shown to be fraudulent. Cooper had sent
one to Japan, where the color
was re-added to it, and again attempted to sell it around the
world.
Lars Hansson, the man who originally produced the tape had by now
(1990) spent over a year
explaining that the whole thing was an invalid theory. Cooper had
been calling for the driver,
William Greer, to be brought before a court of law and charged
with murder, not even knowing
that Greer had died in the 1970s. Cooper slandered many very
prominent JFK researchers while
pushing this theory, but it was obvious he had very little
investigative experience with the JFK
case. In a typically sudden and arbitrary switch of loyalties, he
began to ally himself with the ultra
right-wing militia movement, where he is today. Now he claims
that all UFO cases are actually
part of a vast one-world conspiracy, secret government operations
that will end up with everyone
subjugated slaves under a tyrannical, New World Order.
The UFO field has suffered great harm because of years of
disinformation like what has been
detailed here. The real problem is that there is no end in sight.
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