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Subject: ROSWELL-DECLARATION PART 9
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## Nachricht vom 07.03.95 weitergeleitet
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## Ersteller:  Joachim Koch@242:1000/7.20
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Subject:Roswell-Incident 19947

Organization: International Roswell Initiative


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## Ersteller:  Joachim Koch@2:2410/504.20
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Hello !

>>>>>>continued from previous message>>>>>

This is PART 9 of the material distributed with the
ROSWELL-DECLARATION. Have you received the previous parts?

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***PLEASE CIRCULATE*PLEASE COPY*PLEASE SIGN THE ROSWELL-DECLARATION***
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THE INTERNATIONAL ROSWELL INITIATIVE - UPDATE FEBRUARY 10, 1995


An Open Letter to All Those With an Interest in the UFO
Phenomenon:
                           - Part 2 -


The Roswell case does not stand alone as the only solid evidence
of a coverup of UFO information by the U.S. government.  In
1980, after having filed numerous Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests, a group known as Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
(CAUS) learned of 156 UFO-related documents held by the National
Security Agency (NSA) and of internal references to a large
number of UFO-related documents held by other agencies,
including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  While this was
an interesting revelation, researchers believe that it would not
be possible through FOIA requests to find even references to the
most important UFO documents (such as those relating to
Roswell).  This information would, presumably, be buried much
deeper.

The members of CAUS proceeded with a FOIA request for the 156
NSA UFO documents, but were denied access to all of them.  They
subsequently filed an appeal in federal court and lost.
Interestingly, the National Security Agency did not even allow
the judge in the hearing, Gerhardt Gessell of the First Federal
Court, District of Columbia, to view the 156 UFO documents.
Instead, the NSA submitted a special 21-page "top secret plus"
affidavit to the judge, giving its arguments for withholding the
documents.  An unusual action from a government that officially
denies having any knowledge about the existence of UFOs!

It is important to realize that the vast majority of people
employed by the U.S. government, even those with top secret
clearances, would not have access to classified UFO information
such as the 156 NSA UFO documents.  In all probability, most of
these government employees, like the rest of us, would like to
know the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence.
Furthermore, it is doubtful whether any members of Congress have
access to such information and, given the size of the government
bureaucracy and high degree of compartmentalization that exists
within it, it is conceivable that even the President has not
been fully briefed on the subject.

For obvious reasons, it is necessary that the military services
and the intelligence agencies impose a certain amount of
secrecy.  In recent decades, however, many observers say that
the use of government secrecy has become excessive.  Secrecy is
tantamount to power and, like power, lends itself to abuse.
Behind the shield of secrecy, it is possible for an agency or
service to avoid scrutiny and essentially operate outside the
law.  Accountability to the taxpayers, and to the Congress, can
be conveniently avoided.  Perhaps this is a major reason the
U.S. annual "black budget" (government spending on secret
programs) has climbed to a staggering $25 billion a year.  The
1995 budget for the National Security Agency alone is projected
at $3.5 billion according to the publication Defense Week.

Secrecy, like power, is not readily relinquished.
Traditionally, those in power tend to vehemently resist change
of any type, including change that would be in the public
interest.  Anything that might upset the status quo is perceived
as a potential threat to entrenched position or power.  For
example, the November 11, 1994, New York Times reported that an
Executive Order signed by President Clinton declassifying nearly
44 million pages of secret documents, some dating back to 1917,
was delayed nearly a year because of resistance from military
and intelligence officials.  The New York Times article also
reported that although 22 years ago President Nixon promised
"immediate and systematic declassification" of Vietnam War
documents, nearly five million pages of those documents are
still being withheld at the demand of military and intelligence
officials.  In view of this kind of obsession with secrecy on
the part of the government, obtaining the release of information
that has been as closely guarded as NSA and CIA UFO documents or
the files on Roswell is not going to be an easy task.

Fortunately, a number of politicians, including President
Clinton, are aware of the problem of excessive secrecy and have
pledged to do something about it.  There are also some
politicians known to have an interest in the subject of UFOs,
but few have had the courage to speak out.  One notable
exception is former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater.  Senator
Goldwater agreed to do a pre-taped interview for the Larry King
special on UFOs, broadcast on October 1, 1994.  In reference to
government-held information on UFOs, Senator Goldwater stated,
"I think the government does know."  He went on to say, "...I
think that at Wright Patterson Field, if you could get into
certain places, you'd find out what the Air Force and the
government does know about UFOs.  Reportedly, a spaceship
landed.  It was all hushed up...I called Curtis LeMay and I
said, `General, I know we have a room at Wright Patterson where
you put all this secret stuff.  Could I go in there?'  I've
never heard him get mad, but he got madder than hell at me,
cussed me out, and said, `Don't ever ask me that question
again!'"

On numerous occasions, Senator Goldwater has publicly mentioned
his experience with General LeMay and his belief in a government
coverup concerning UFOs.  However, he had never mentioned
Roswell specifically until July 1994.  At that time, in response
to a letter about the Roswell Initiative, Senator Goldwater
wrote, "You touch something very close to me, by your letter.
Roswell has long been a point of great interest to me, since the
first UFOs turned up."  Of great surprise to Roswell
researchers, he stated, "Butch Blanchard was a very close friend
of mine.  I worked with him in the Air Force...."  (General
William "Butch" Blanchard was the officer who, as a Colonel and
Commander of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field in
1947, issued the press release that a crashed disk [UFO] had
been recovered.)  With respect to "getting the things about
Roswell that you would like," he stated, "I tried diligently to
get them from General LeMay, and the only cussing out he ever
gave me was when I very vociferously asked him for information."

Senator Goldwater was the Republican party's presidential
candidate in 1964 (against Lyndon Johnson), chairman of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for eight years,
chairman of the Senate Armed Service's Committee for four years,
and a major general in the Air Force Reserves.  Many consider
Senator Goldwater one of the most distinguished, respected, and
honest U.S. statesmen of this century.  He retired from public
service in 1987 after having served 30 years in the U.S. Senate.


If, as the Roswell evidence indicates, information confirming
the existence of other intelligent life in the universe is being
withheld from the people of the world by a few privileged
individuals in the U.S. government, such withholding is a crime
against all humanity and a gross misuse of the power entrusted
to those individuals. It is, in effect, a form of censorship on
a nonmilitary and a non-national security issue.  The question
must be asked:  What gives these individuals the right to keep
this information to themselves, thereby depriving the rest of
the world of knowledge of almost inconceivable magnitude and
consequence?  Do these individuals consider themselves, by
virtue of some divine providence or other abstract rationale, so
above the rest of us that only they are entitled to or are
capable of handling this information?  Such arrogance and
elitism by the officials of any government, much less a
government based upon the principles of democracy and individual
rights, is a gross injustice against not only its own people,
but all people.  At issue is knowledge so profound that it
affects our very perspective on man's place in the universe.

While the organizers of the Roswell Initiative feel that it is
highly probable that the U.S. government is withholding such
information, the primary goal of the initiative is to get the
matter into the open so that the truth can be conclusively
determined, one way or the other.  It is hoped, therefore, that
all individuals, no matter what their opinion on the subject,
will support this effort.  There has never before been a
grassroots movement of such magnitude on this issue, and there
may never be again.  This effort could represent the best chance
that we will ever have of learning the truth about this matter.

Despite an overwhelmingly positive response, the battle is far
from won.  Too many people, while supporting this cause in
principle, are unwilling to get involved.  It is critical,
therefore, that all individuals who do support this effort
participate by signing a copy of the Roswell Declaration and
distributing it to others.

One of the most basic philosophical and scientific questions
contemplated by modern man is, "Are we alone?"  If the Roswell
premise is correct, as we believe it to be, and we are
successful in what we are trying to accomplish, that question
will be answered with absolute finality, once and for all.
People all over the world will be able to look up at the
firmament of the night sky with its millions of stars and feel
an even greater sense of wonder about what is out there.

Sincerely,



Kent Jeffrey, Coordinator

Help to bring this historic initiative to success and sign the
Roswell-Declaration.

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Please send signed Declarations to either organization:

MUFON; 103 Oldtowne Road; Seguin, TX  78155. U.S.A.
CUFOS; 2457W. Peterson Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60659, U.S.A.
FUFOR; PostOffice Box 277, Mt.Rainier, Maryland 20712, U.S.A.

Or to:

Kent Jeffrey, 37 Porteous Ave., Fairfax, CA 94930, U.S.A.
Joachim Koch, Stadtrandstr. 550 g, 13589 Berlin, Germany
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