[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
.Crisman had been a flier in World War II, and he was suddenly recalkd into the service in 1947, flown to Alaska, and laterstationed in Green-land, In recent years the amateur sleuths engaged in investigatingthe alleged conspiracy to assassinate President John F.Kennedy have tried to implicate Crisman.District Attorney James Garrisonof New Orleans subpoenaed one Fred Lee Crisman of Tracoma, Wash-ington, to testify before the Grand Jury listening toGarrison's evi-dence against Clay Shaw, according to wire service stories in November, 1963.Crisman was identified as a radioannouncer, but Garrison's investigators implied that he was either a member of the CIA or had been 'engaged in undercoveractivity for a part of the industrial warfare complex'.He allegedly operated under a cover as a preacher and was 'engaged in workto help Gypsies'.These stories caused a chain reaction in UFO circles, since UFO believers have long accused the CIA of beingsomehow connected with the flying saucer mystery.Of course, the CIA was in its infancy in 1947 at the time of the Maury Islandcase and was then largely staffed by naval personnel from World War n intelligence units.Clay Shaw was tried early in 1969, accused by Garrison of having conspired to murder President Kennedy.He was foundinnocent and freed.The exact nature of Crisman's testimony before the Grand Jury is not known.He did not testify at the actualtrial.When Ray Palmer, one of the best-informed urologists extant, summarized his own theories about the Maury Island mystery in thebook he coauthored with Arnold, The Coming of the Saucers, he asked pointedly, "Was the Tacoma affair a hoax? Whose?*In recent years many seemingly solid flying saucer cases have dis-solved in confusion under close investigation.Often they appearto be outrageous hoaxes perpetrated by some mysterious third party, although the general tendency is to blame the innocentwitnesses.These bizarre hoaxes are often identical to the mischievous fairy hoaxes and games of an earlier epoch.The Maury Island case fell apart in Arnold's hands.The slag samples given to him by Dahl and Crisman were switched by some-one; two investigating Air Force officers, Brown and Davidson, were killed when their plane crashed shortly after leavingTacoma; Dahl vanished; Crisraan was literally exiled to Greenland for two years; Tacoma newsman Paul Lance, who helpedArnold in his inves-tigation, died suddenly a short time later.Palmer claims that a cigar box filled with original slag samples wasstolen from his Chicago office soon afterwards.At one point Ted Morello of the United Press took Arnold aside and told him:You're involved in something that is beyond our power here tofind out anything about.*.We tried to find out information at McChord Field [the Tacoma Air Force base] and drew a Wade, andwe have informants there who practically smell the runways for news& We've exhausted every avenue attempting to piece whathas happened together so it makes some sense& I'm just going to give you some sound advice.Get out of this town until what>ever it is blows over.Arnold got into his private plane and headed for home.He stopped in Pendleton, Oregon, to refuel, and shortly after he took offagain, Tüs engine stopped cold.Only quick thinking and expert flying saved him from a serious crash.Despite the statements of General Spaatz and Kenneth Arnold in 1947-8, slight, dark-skinned men did not really begin to appearin published UFO reports until around 1954.(There were, however, descriptions of dark - or heavily suntanned - UFO occupantsas far back as 1897.) The Men in Black phenomenon did not really grip the UFO field until the early 1950s.A pioneer ufologist, Albert K.Bender of Bridgeport, Connecticut, gave the MIB mystery new impetus when he suddenly closeddown his International Flying Saucer Bureau in 1953, vaguely hinting that three men in black suits had terrorized him intoabandoning his research^ Other UFO researchers studied his guarded remarks and concluded that he had been pressured out ofbusiness by sinister agents of the government.Three years later Gray Barker, a UFO investigator in West Virginia, published TheyKnew Too Much about Flying Saucers, a book which dealt with numerous MIB stories from as far away as Mew Zealand.TheBender case was the cornerstone of Barker's theory that the MIB either represented some governmental authority employing'questionable methods' to 'silence' UFO re-searchers, or that a more "fantastic sponsorship is responsible far their deeds'.Many ofthese dark-skinned.Oriental-featured gentle-men visited UFO witnesses wearing Air Force uniforms.This fact and tHe vastquantity of reported visits quickly led the UFO buffs to believe that their enemy was indeed the U.S.Air Force.Soon the UFObelievers and their organizations were devoting most of their time, energy, and money to investigating the Air Force and, as theparanoia mounted, to investigating each other.The popular books of Donald E.Keyhoe, a retired Marine Corps pilot, were largelycon-cerned with the alleged Air Force and governmental conspiracy to hide the truth about flying saucers from the public.OtherUFO writers of the late 1950s followed Keyhoe's example, and this monu-mental conspiracy became one of the main 'facts* of nfology [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]