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- THE CRUCIBLE <<UFONET I>> 416-237-1204 *HST* - 24Hrs - 12/24/96 - 60 Megs
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- The following file contains clarification and correction
- of a number of claims attributed to Tracy Torme by Larry
- Fenwick within the Fenwick.txt interview transcript of
- Nov.6/88. Tracy Torme's version comes from a taped conversation
- I had with him on Dec.4/88 In addition to Torme's reaction,
- I also have Larry Fenwick's response to this. Lastly, Tracy
- also has kindly offered to give his views on the Gulf Breeze
- series of UFO sightings, and of his appraisal of "Mr. Ed".
-
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- The following is a series of selected statements made by Tracy
- Torme, who gave me permission to use "any, or part of this" so
- as to reproduce in electronic form for distribution on ParaNet.
-
- <Tracy Torme>
-
- "Although there are grains of truth...small grains of truth, in
- some of what Larry said, a great majority of it is inaccurate
- and highly exaggerated. Just for the record, some of the positions
- that he has me taking are positions that I absolutely do not
- believe...I never did, and I still don't. When I talked to Larry
- about this after having read the transcript, Larry was pretty
- apologetic, and said, well, he realizes he has a faulty memory
- and he tends to exagerate. Thats his quote. And that's how I
- found the whole thing on me.
-
- For the record, the following things are the way that I feel:
-
- (1) I do not have any inside information on Project Aquarius.
-
- (2) I have strong doubts that Project Aquarius even exists as
- interpreted by Larry Fenwick.
-
- (3) I do not believe in underground alien bases. Although I keep
- open the possibility that such things exist, I personally
- would tend to disbelieve that. And never said anything like that.
-
- (4) The "religion" comments were taken out of context. And most
- of what was said were not my words. When I was pressed to
- reveal anything I might know about Bill Moore's situation, I
- basically refused. Then Larry and Harry Tokarz etc., and Joe
- Muskat started asking me, well, if the stuff that Bill is onto
- is true, then what would it affect? And they started running
- through a number of things, and one of the them that I agreed
- could be affected, would be religion. But I never said it
- would be affected. And I never NEVER said anything about 20
- million suicides. That is something that someone from CUFORN
- said, and Larry is getting them mistaken."
-
-
- "As far as me knowing everything that Bill Moore knows, that is
- ridiculous...back in 1982 or today."
-
- "I'm often amused with people who decide that I'm some kind of
- agent who knows all that Moore knows, and works so closely to
- Moore. Because the reality is that I know only slightly more than
- what most people do. For instance, John Lear came out and said I
- was an agent of disinformation for Bill Moore. And when I asked
- John why he said that, he said, well you seem to agree with him alot.
- That's the kind of reasoning that leads to these nonsensical claims."
-
- [Regarding the New York Meeting with...here are some of Torme's remarks]
-
- "Larry Fenwick used to tell me that he saw suspicious people in
- the lobby of my hotel who's eyes were following me wherever I went.
- So he started to suspect that I was being surveilled. And again, I
- don't think there is anything to that either."
-
- "I don't specifically remember anything about saying "don't take
- notes", but I'm not denying I said that, because most likely what
- the context of it was...they [the CUFORN guys] started asking alot
- of questions again...and they may have gotten a tape recorder out
- or something, and I may have discouraged them and said, "look guys
- I'll just talk to you off the record, but I don't want this to
- become like an interview, where I'll have to watch my words. Thats
- as much as there is to that."
-
- "Basically, my last statement would be that this is a small but
- important example how rumour mongering, exaggeration, excitability,
- melodrama, etc....enter into the simplest of stories, and by the
- time they make their rounds of the UFO grapevine, they are blown
- all out of proportion."
-
- [In response to my query about what percentage of Moore's info Tracy knows..]
-
- I think I still know some things that Bill Moore knows that only
- a few people know. I'm sure there are some things that I still know
- that are not known to the general public. I wouldn't say [they are]
- anything earth-shattering, nothing that anyone wouldn't imagine."
-
- "In my viewpoint, if the UFO community knows 15% of what Bill Moore
- knows, then maybe I know 25%."
-
- "I don't know where MJ-12 hangs out, where they play golf, and all
- that kinda stuff. I don't know that stuff. If anyone thinks that I
- do, then more power to them, but its not true. So thats the situation.
- "
-
-
- [Regarding the above...in conversations with Larry Fenwick, he has agreed tha
- t
- his recollection of what transpired during certain events (all of which did
- occur as Fenwick mentioned) was indeed "faulty", and as they took place some
- 6-8 years ago, Fenwick blames the passage of time for this error on his part.
- ]
-
- [One mistake made while transcribing, was my attributing Torme with working
- at CTV instead of at SCTV. - other than that, except for a few typographical
- errors, the text is an accurate portrayal of the Fenwick.txt transcript.]
-
-
- [The following are Tracy Torme's views on the Gulf Breeze UFO sightings,
- whose views I solicited due to Tracy's own work with, and meetings, with
- many of the individuals involved...including with "Mr.Ed" and his family.
- As you may know, Tracy's work on the TV special "UFO-Coverup LIVE" was
- primarily on the Gulf Breeze segment, and as such he is quite familiar
- with it.]
-
-
- <Torme>"Well, I started as a skeptic, and became a definite believer.
- I keep hearing from skeptics that new information, or certain
- things that have come out, have blown the case out of the water.
- But everytime I look into that so-called "new information",
- there's nothing there that damages the case at all, really. So,
- I'm still keeping the door open that its an incredibly elaborate
- hoax...because I don't think that's an impossibility. But I'm
- 98% convinced that something very unusual really was flying around
- down there. That much, I'm pretty convinced off."
-
- <Mickus>"So I guess you and Jim [Speiser] would differ on that then...
- cause I know that he's come out and called it a hoax."
-
- <Torme>"Jim Speiser has?"
-
- <Mickus>"Well, ParaNet's current classification on it is that it is
- a hoax."
-
- <Torme>"Is that right?"
-
- <Mickus>"Yes. I thought that it was maybe a little premature."
-
- <Torme>"I'm surprised to hear that. There's so much to the case, that
- someday I would love to be part of a real, bigger discussion about
- it. I've been down there now I think four times. And I've been
- involved with all the principals directly down there in Gulf Breeze.
- If its a fake, they sure got me fooled, I can tell you that much.
- And I'm not saying that that's impossible, but it would be a real
- surprise."
-
- "One thing I will say about it is that, its an interesting case
- in that most cases like it, like the Meier case...and others, the
- more you find out about them, the less you believe in them. What
- I've found with Gulf Breeze is, that the more you stay at a distance
- from it, the easier it is to say that its not real. Because the
- photos look fake, and its the type of case that has never happenend
- really legitimately before. So its easy to just base it on the
- superficial ideal like that, and say okay its not real. And I think
- to a certain extent, Richard Haines and Richard Hall, and other
- people that are good people in the field...when I talk about it to
- them, that's pretty much where they stood. But I really found out
- that I didn't feel like they knew as much about it as they should,
- in order to make that decision [against GB being legit]. The
- interesting thing about Gulf Breeze is the more you learn about it
- and the more you get to know who "Mr. Ed" really is, and who some
- of the other witnesses are, and the details of what they saw, I
- think you have to come away from it making the same judgement that
- Hopkins made and that Maccabee has made and that I have made, along
- with most other people, and that is that it is a real series of
- incidents. I've spent quite a bit of time with "Mr. Ed" I've gone
- to all the major sites where with him where he had incidents...and
- I've relived them with him [through Ed's re-telling]. I've met his
- family, his kids, his wife and some of his neighbors and friends."
-
- "I think the guy has a lot of integrity, and I think he's suffering
- because of this, instead of profiting because of it." I think its
- a real case, that's my feeling on it."
-
-
- [Lastly, a closing remark about Tracy Torme's view of Larry Fenwick...]
-
- "Larry Fenwick really means well. And he is not dishonest. He's
- a nice guy, and he's earnest, and he means well...but like he
- himself said, he gets things mixed up. Unfortunately, thats what
- happened this time."
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- <Mickus>"So I guess you and Jim [Speiser] would differ on that then...
- cause I know that he's come out and called it a hoax."
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- <Torme>"Jim Speiser has?"
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- <Mickus>"Well, ParaNet's current classification on it is that it is
- a hoax."