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2) Mysterious surface glimpses through the global dust storm encountered on the planet
by Mariner 9 in 1971.

3) The strange readings from the Viking landers of 1976, which found a supposedly
sterile Martian surface.

And of course the Mars observer of 1992 was deliberately destroyed. (The jury is out
on the Russian Mars 96. Maybe that really was a screw-up.)
Only a handful of people know that the US General Accounting Office - that's
Congress's investigative arm - recently published this, the results of a search for records
concerning the Cross Fork, Nevada incident, generally thought to be at the centre of the
Mars cover-up. Search meaning forced through by white-hat Congressman Bill Lambie,
who's as sick of cover-ups as anyone. Published meaning hurried out and buried. I owe
my copy to [illegible].
Here's how I started this.
I got an e-mail from a Janet [illegible] of Albuquerque. She sais she had met a hooker
from Reno in the 1970's. This lady had worked at a cathouse close to Cross Fork,
Nevada. And she told Janet there had been an awful lot of ex-NASA engineers in town at
that time. And one night two NASA guys talked too much.


NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, WASHINGTON DC 20506. APRIL 18, 1997.
MEMORANDUM FOR MR JOHN E PROCTOR, DIRECTOR-IN-CHARGE, NATIONAL SECURITY
ISSUES, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE.
SUBJECT: Request for records.

I am responding your apeil 2, 1997 request for information or NSC records related to the supposed
explosion near Cross Fork, Nevada in October 1983.
The NSC has no records or information related to the incident.
For information about any government records that may document the explosion in Nevada, we suggest
you contact the National Archives, Textual Reference Division, 8601 Adelphi Rd, College Park, Maryland
20740.
-Albert D Steele, Executive Secretary


There were four categories of key staff involved in the Mars cover-up:

1) top level managment, including CIA, FBI and DIA operatives
2) interface personnel
3) technical personnel
3) the astronauts

Only recruiting thr astronauts would have posed any challenge. These were, after all,
brave and dedicated men.
Secrecy would not have been a major problem, even for such a gigantic enterprise.
There were precedents. More than three hundred thousand people were directly involved
in the building of an atomic bomb in 1942-5, and no significant information reached the
public. And besides America had been sliding towards a police state for years (wire-taps,
surveillance of civilians) and it was a simple matter to apply these cloak-and-dagger