SUBJECT: ARTICLE FROM UFO ON THE WHISTLEBLOWERS FILE: UFO1950 PART 1 As many of you know, UFO Magazine completed a story and investigation on Milton Wm. Cooper in Vol. 5, No. 4 and 5. Cooper, a very controversial figure in the UFO field, has been making claims and pronouncements for the last several years. We spoke to many that know him, and for you folks that are new here at ParaNet, Cooper made his debut right here. At that time ( in 1988 ) he was "made" as a fraud by the former Administrator Jim Speiser, and was removed from the system. I have just received a copy of "NEW TIMES" NEXUS, a magazine that is published in Australia. The issue is Volume 2 Issue 1 dated October 1990. In this magazine is a story by Cooper with his "Operation Majority". Now during the UFO Magazine investigation, we found most of this to be fabricated or information that Cooper plagiarized. However it is a fact of life that not everyone reads UFO, and Cooper is public in every area he can attain to. So I am going to place the entire Two part story right here for all of ParaNet to read. One other thing, I am also going to include a couple of things that did not reach publication, because of space, and also the fact that at the time we did not wish to "crucify" Cooper. However, to paraphrase George Knapp, News Director of KLAS TV in Las Vegas, "Cooper is like a cornered rat, desperate, vicious and vile." He has "smeared, lied, threatened, and libeled everyone that has disagreed with him. With that, here is "Whistleblowers Part ONE. All Rights Reserved - UFO Magazine Who are the UFO whistleblowers? They come out of relative obscurity and burst into the center of ufological attention. Making incredible claims of alien activity on earth and the Government's deep but covert involvement. Without exception, the whistleblowers of recent times only furnish the most hazy evidence of their claims, if that. Oftentimes they will also lay claim to having worked with or for the government, in high enough positions to wield security clearances and to have observed the most unequivocal documentation. Because these individuals fail to furnish proof for their startling claims, and because many people have asked UFO Magazine for a readout on their credibility, we are beginning a series of investigative articles on certain individuals who fall into the ''whistleblower'' category. Normally, UFO avoids focusing on personalities, preferring to concentrate on the phenomenon itself. But these personalities force us to make an exception. Their material has appeal and sensation value. But is it legitimate? Who are the whistleblowers who are telling the truth ? Who are the ruthless Pied Pipers forging a trail of lies and deception ? Our series begins with Milton William Cooper. COOPER In the last several years, few have stirred the field of ufology like Milton William Cooper. Cooper, born May 6, 1943, is a balding 47-year-old man who has enthralled thousands with lurid tales of dangerous UFOs and secret govern- ment treaties allowing the alien menace to abduct and experiment on unwilling human victims in exchange for advanced alien technology. Raining threats and pronounce- ments over the UFO field like a con- tinuously firing shotgun, Cooper has recently leveled charges of govern- ment spookery against a number of prominent ufologists in the field, in many cases claiming to have seen their names on a government recruit- ment list back in 1972 and 1973 while he was purportedly serving in Naval Intelligence in CINCPACFLT (Commander-in Chief, Pacific Fleet). Not above accusing former friends and associates, Cooper has charged various ufologists with illegal acts, moral turpitude and of purveying disinformation that permeates the field. Now with an agent to book speaking engagements at any and every UFO event possible, Cooper is very fond of stating to his audiences, ''Don't take my word for it, go out and check the information yourself.'' UFO MagaLine has, and the follow- ing is the result of our investigation. Paranet debut Who is M. Wm. "Bill" Cooper, and where did he come from? Cooper's first public appearance resulted when he uploaded a text on ParaNet, the international computer data service. The file alleges a fan- tastic UFO sighting while Cooper was a crew member of the U.S.S. TIRU, a United States Naval sub- marine, in 1966. According to Cooper, the sighting took place while he was on duty as port lookout. Claiming that the sub's skipper im- mediately classified the incident, Cooper reported that when the sub- marine reached port, the witnesses were debriefed by Naval Security. During this time frame of Cooper's initial appearance on the scene, John O. Lear, son of William ''Bill'' Lear of Lear Jet fame, had also been undergoing ParaNet scrutiny as a result of the release of his hypothesis concerning an alien threat. Lear's document, released in December of 1987, had created quite an uproar in its own right. Lear alleged that the U.S. government had entered into a relationship with a possible ET intelligence, and in ex- change for super technology gave carte blanche to the ETs to conduct experiments and abductions on un- suspecting human beings. Lear also claimed that the ETs, with our government's knowledge, were mutilating domestic animals such as cattle and sheep, and in some cases even human victims. Because much of Lear's information was hypothesis, and little checkable infor- mation was forthcoming, many ParaNet members and others in the UFO community were asking very hard questions. In a number of in- stances, Lear's credibility was attacked. When he again visited the ParaNet system, Cooper allied himself with Lear, publicizing the claim that because of releasing his UFO infor- mation, he had just been terminated from his $75,000 a year job as the executive director of a commercial business school. In October of 1988, Cooper con- tacted this writer, requesting a favor. Telling me at that time that "this is dangerous if anyone finds out," he asked me to accept the electronic transfer of a file into my computer, to be sent to Stanton Friedman with the information of who wanted Friedman to see it. The document in- cluded information about purported government UFO involvement- under the terms MAJI, MJ-1, THE BlUE TEAM, GRUDGE, etc.-and, according to Cooper, various other alleged secret govern- ment projects dealing with the alien presence. I agreed to send the infor- mation to Friedman. (I never heard anymore about it until later, when Cooper was barred from ParaNet because of' claims of feeding false and fraudulent information.) I basically forgot about the file to Friedman until Cooper released ad- ditional files with the claim that they were the final release. But subsequently Cooper was to release several "final" releases. In one, he claimed, "MJ-12 is the name of the secret control group . . . The Jason Society [was set up] to sift through all the evidence, technology, lies and decep- tion . . ." But later, in another file, he stated, ''MJ-12 cannot be used as a name for the control group as it would cause confusion in meaning, i.e., is it referring to MJ-12 the per- son or MJ-12 the group... ?'' (Italics added) By this time, I and others were becoming confused with the various ''final releases.'' Project 'Luna' In another public release, Cooper claimed that "Project Luna" was an alien base on the far side of the moon which had been observed by various astronauts, but changed the story in one more "Final release," stating that it was the code name for an underground base near Dulce, New Mexico. In Cooper's later releases are a number of names that were never mentioned in earlier releases, names such as JOSHUA and O.H. KRLL or KRLLL, or CRLL, CRLLL, or even KRILL. When it comes to answering whether these claims will bear up under serious scrutiny, these names prove to be very important, as later information in this article will show. ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************