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He threw me out fast. But not so fast I didn't manage to notice some oddities. For
instance at one point Becker let go of a glass in mid-air and looked startled when it fell.
This sort of thing happened to the Skylab astronauts and Mir cosmonauts, conditioned
to long periods in zero G. Furthermore his illnesses are consistent with the proposal that
Becker endured a long-duration spaceflight in the early 1980s.
But he was not on any spaceflight made public.
So where the hell did he go?
I only met Tad Jones the once.
I wasn't so surprised. Ageing, poor, stricken by pain, Jones was becoming les discreet. I
don't know how he died. His old radiation injuries must have baffled the coroners.
Of course he could have been lying through his teeth about the whole thing. But if so,
where did he get his injuries?


US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington DC 20535, April 22, 1997.
Mr John E Proctor, Director-in-Charge, National Security Issues, General Accounting Office.

Dear Mr Proctor:
This is in response to a letter dated April 2, 1997, from Simon J Holusha, Director, Administration of
Justice Issues, General Accounting Office, to Kathryn G Keyworth, Inspector in Charge, Office of Public
and Congressional Affairs, FBI, regarding goverment records concerning the large-scale explosion near
Cross Fork, Nevada in October 1983 (Code 91183).
A search of FBI indices has determined that all FBI data concerning the incident has been processed
under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and is available for review in oru FOIA
Reading Room. If your staff wished to review the material, please call Margaret Feeley, a member of my
staff, at least 48 hours in advance of the desired appointment.
Sincerely yours,
Eric G Dower, Supervisory Special Agent, Office of Public and Congressional Affairs


The truth about Mars, at least, is now obvious.
The space probes did not observe any evidence of an inhabited Mars because it was
deliberately concealed. The Mariner 9 dust storm was no coincidence! - it was thrown up
to conceal hasty efforts by the planet's inhabitants to fake a moonlike landscape. And the
surface was sterilized by neutron bombs before the Vikings could land, and the Mars
Observer was shot out of the sky...
We didn't go back to Mars for twenty years. And by the time we got there, with
Pathfinder and the rest, there was nothing to see. Of course not. The Martians had
completed their mock-up.
And nobody told us about all this. We worship secrecy in this country.
Get this: last year the US government produced 6,300,00 "classified" documents. The
least restricted bear the stamp "FOUO", "For Official Use Only." The next category - the
fist technically classified - are "Confidential." After that comes "Secret," and some of
them are "NATO secret", meaning they can be shared with NATO nations. Then comes
"Top Secret" and "NATO Top Secret."
Above "Top Secret" there is "SCI" - "Sensitive Compartmented Information," open to
still fewer individuals. And there is some information that you can only see if you are on
a BIGOT list - if you have your own specific code word.
And then there are qualifies like "NOFORN" - no foreigners to see - and
"NOCONTRACT" - no contractors, "WNINTEL" -"Warning Notice - Intelligence