PART 13

Cooper's Conspiracy Theory: Soon Lear was joined by someone with
an even bigger supply of fabulous yarns: one Milton William
Cooper. Cooper surfaced on December 18, 1988, when his account of
the fantastic secrets he learned while a Naval petty officer
appeared on a computer network subscribed to by ufologists and
others interested in anomalous phenomena. Cooper said that while
working as a quartermaster with an intelligence team for Adm.
Bernard Clarey, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Meet, in the
early 1970s he saw two documents, Project Grudge Special Report
13 and a Majority briefing. (In conventional UFO history, Grudge
was the second public Air Force UFO project, superseding the
original Sign, in early 1949 and lasting until late 1951, when it
was renamed Blue Book. Whereas Sign investigators at one time
concluded UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin--a conclusion the
Air force leadership found unacceptable--Grudge, as its name
suggests coincidentally or otherwise, was known for its hostility
to the idea of UFOs and for its eagerness to assign conventional
explanations, warranted or otherwise, to the sighting reports
that came its way.) Cooper's account of what was in these reports
is much like the by-now familiar story of crashes, bodies,
contacts and projects, with some elaborations. Moreover, he said
the aliens were called "ALFs" (which as any television viewer
knows, stands for Alien Life forms) and the "M" in MJ-12 is for
Majority not Majestic. Later he would say he had seen photographs
of aliens, including a type he called the "big-nosed grays"-like
those that supposedly landed at Holloman in 1964 or 1971. The
U.S. government was in contact with them and alien-technology
projects were going on at Area 51.

If this sounded like a rehash of Moore and Lear, that was only
because Cooper had yet to pull out all the stops. On May 23,
1989, Cooper produced a 25-page document titled The Secret
Government: The Origin, Identity And Purpose of MJ-12. He
presented it as a lecture in Las Vegas a few weeks later. In
Cooper's version of the evolving legend, the "secret government,"
an unscrupulous group of covert CIA and other intelligence
operatives who keep many of their activities sealed from even the
President's knowledge, runs the country. One of its first acts
was to murder one-time Secretary of Defense (and alleged early
MJ-12 member) James Forrestal the death was made to look like suicide-because he threatened to expose the UFO cover-up.
Nonetheless, President Truman, fearing an invasion from outer
space, kept other nations, including the Soviet Union, abreast of
developments. But keeping all this secret was a real problem, so
an international secret society known as the Bilderbergers,
headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, was formed. Soon it became
a secret world government and "now controls everything," Cooper
said.

All the while flying saucers were dropping like flies out of the
heavens. In 1953 there were 10 crashes in the United States
alone. Also that year, astronomers observed huge spaceships
heading toward the earth and in time entering into orbit around
the equator. Project Plato was established to effect
communication with these new aliens. One of the ships landed and
a face-to-face meeting took place, and plans for diplomatic
relations were laid. Meanwhile a race of human-looking aliens
warned the U.S. government that the new visitors were not to be
trusted and that if the government got rid of its nuclear
weapons, the human aliens would help us in our spiritual
development, which would keep us from destroying ourselves
through wars and environmental pollution. The government rejected
these overtures.

The big-nosed grays, the ones who had been orbiting the equator,
landed again, this time at Holloman AFB, in 1954 and reached an
agreement with the U.S. government. These beings stated that they
were from a dying planet that orbits Betelguese. At some point in
the not too distant future, they said, they would have to leave
there for good. A second meeting took place not long afterwards
at Edwards AFB in California. This time President Eisenhower was
there to sign a formal treaty and to meet the first alien
ambassador, "His Omnipotent Highness Krlll," pronounced Krill.
He, in common with his fellow space travelers, wore a trilateral
insignia on his uniform; the same design appears on all
Betelguese spacecraft.

According to Cooper's account, the treaty's provisions were
these: Neither side would interfere in the affairs of the other.
The aliens would abduct humans from time to time and would return
them unharmed, with no memory of the event. It would provide a
list of names of those it was going to take. The U.S. government
would keep the aliens' presence a secret and it would receive
advanced technology from them. The two sides would exchange 16
individuals each for the purpose of learning from and teaching
each other. The aliens would stay on earth and the humans would
go to the other planet, then return after a specified period of
time. The two sides would jointly occupy huge underground bases
which would be constructed at hidden locations in the Southwest.

(It should be noted that the people listed as members of MJ-12
are largely from the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Trilateral Commission. These organizations play a prominent role
in conspiracy theories of the far right. In a book on the subject
George Johnson writes, "After the Holocaust of World War II,
anti-Semitic conspiracy theories became repugnant to all but the
fringe of the American right. Populist fears of the power of the
rich became focused instead on organizations that promote
international capitalism, such as the Trilateral Commission, the
Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderbergers, a group of
world leaders and businesspeople who held one of their early
conferences on international relations at the Bilderberg Hotel in
the Netherlands" [Johnson, 1983]. According to Cooper, the
trilateral emblem is taken directly from the alien flag. He adds
that under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter MJ-12 became known
as the 50 Committee. Under Reagan it was renamed the PI-40
Committee.)
end of part13


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