Editor:

I've served most of my adult life as an intelligence operative
(Intelligence Officer, Delta Force; Commander, Special Operations,
Viet-Nam: Commander Special Forces, Latin America; Principal Agent,
NSC-ISA). Unlike William Cooper, I can prove this identity. I have been
a Pilot for more than 30 years. My assignments have taken me all over
the globe including Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, et al.
Much of this time has been spent out in the open under the stars. I
have never witnessed a UFO in the classic saucer sense, but I believe
they exist nevertheless (Even Jimmy Carter says so). While in England,
enroute to Bangladesh, I bought and read Above Top Secret, which
strengthened my personal convictions.

This past month the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and
National Intelligence Counter Intelligence Association included UFO
reports (Belgian Air Force Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer) in their
monthly INSUMS (Intelligence Summaries).

As a Chemical, Biological, Nuclear trained officer, I know that "the"
government lied about gassing sheep in Montana with GB-Agent, infecting
San Francisco with a virus, and the proposed use of underground nuclear
demolitions to construct a new canal in Nicaragua. They denied Frank
Powers U-2 over Russia, SR-71, and Stealth. Why wouldn't they cover-up
UFOs (classic or otherwise)?

I obviously don't know much about flying saucers, even though I have
more than a dozen friends, including pilots, who are eye witnesses to
UFO sightings. I know a lot more about people and I certainly know the
intelligence system. I have examined military records on Bill Cooper. I
have spoken with him and listened to him on telephone recorded audio
tape. I feel compelled to add my opinion to that of George Knapp, Ed De
Mar and others. I am absolutely convinced that Cooper is a charlatan.
There is no doubt that he has information concerning government
coverup, which is easily vacuumed from the presentations and
publications of others.

When I retumed from Burma's Golden Triangle with videotape of
overlord Khun Sa accusing U.S. officials of being his best customers,
Cooper started saying that drugs were funding the secret government UFO
campaign.

Only God and Cooper know if he actually observed a UFO, but I don't
buy his story about being a part of Naval Intelligence. I have a Top
Secret Crypto clearance with access to Special Intelligence, which is
clearly imprinted on my records. None of the Cooper file shows him to
have these basic intelligence clearances, without which he would be
denied access to classified materials.

I also have been granted coded clearances which open doors when
combined with a "need to know" to highly selected ''compartments'' of
information. If Cooper were real, he would have long ago referenced the
proper codes that deal with information he says was available to him. I
believe Bill Cooper is a fraud. There is enough wrong with the
government. Cooper types only hurt honest efforts to gain truth. His
fare would be more accurately billed as ''entertainment.''

As Chief of Special Activities on the Army General Staff, I regularly
briefed the U.S. Army Chief of Staff and the other generals. I know and
have experience working with Admiral Isaac Kidd (former Commander in
Chief, Atlantic) and his staff.

There were no enlisted men on the "briefing team." Field grade
officers (Major and up) normally furnish information to these key
decision makers. Classifed information is carefully guarded, especially
the compartmented information that Cooper refers to.

Without the proper coded access and a need to know, you don't get in!

I don't buy Bill's "testing" the government by mixing up code names
(Majestic vis Majority). Every time someone produces information
contradicting Cooper, he changes, adds to, or reveals yet another
personal revelation he read in the cloaked documents way back when. St.
John should have had such access. Cooper has more twists than a snake.
He is also dangerous. I listened to a telephone answer tape wherein
Cooper badgered, bribed, threatened, cried, and then later allegedly
slashed the tires on a man's car.

Cooper talks and acts like a number of other fakes I know. They seem
to want someone, anyone, to do anything that might threaten them since
to be that important would enhance their own self-image. In the absence
of real threats they conjure them up. I don't begrudge whatever
popularity or success he may garner- that is show biz. But I do feel he
is hurting the credibility and honesty of sincere researchers at a time
when we are facing a true peril from within. The secret government
needs to be exposed and expunged before it turns us into economic
slaves through King George's "New World Order.'' Cooperites dull our
cutting edge of truth. I exhort William Cooper to stop his Bush-lip and
focus his energy and resources on unmasking the real villains.

This is the first time I have written a letter to the editor. Strange
that with all that is going on, it would be to a publication I haven't
read, about a person I hope-if there are ETs-will soon be beamed up.

Please send me info on your magazine. It wasn't on our Pentagon
reading list, but maybe it should be.

James "Bo" Gritz
Center for Action
Box 472-HCR31
Sandy Valley, NV 89019

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